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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is a note about an upcoming change to the Geospatial Enterprise Office website.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please note that on October 28 the URL for GEO’s web site will change from
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CIO/GEO">http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CIO/GEO</a> to
<a href="http://gis.oregon.gov">http://gis.oregon.gov</a><span style="color:#1F497D">. 
</span>In addition to providing users with a more memorable web address, this URL change will help us avoid confusion when State organization structure changes are made in the future.  For the past several months, users accessing
<a href="http://gis.oregon.gov/">http://gis.oregon.gov/</a> have been redirected to the /DAS/CIO/ pages. Beginning October 28 gis.oregon.gov will be live.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We will put redirects in place for the most commonly visited GEO content on /DAS/CIO/; however, redirects are a temporary solution and will not encompass every change. GEO’s partners<span style="color:red">
</span>will need to update links, bookmarks and favorites. If you have links on websites that you manage that point to the old GEO directory, please correct them to the new link provided above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I will send out another notice as we get closer to October 28.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Bob DenOuden |
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Framework Coordinator |
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Department of Administrative Services<br>
</span><a href="http://gis.oregon.gov/" title="http://gis.oregon.gov/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Geospatial Enterprise Office</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy"> | (503) 378-3157<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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