Arizona Geospatial Community May 29, 2008

1. Arizona Geospatial Community May 29, 2008

2. Today’s Agenda • Overview of the GIS Inventory • Review of the User Interface • Review of the Administrator Panel • Management Uses in North Carolina • Marketing Materials • Review Live System

3. Purpose of the GIS Inventory • Track the status of GIS in state and local government • Aid the planning and building of Spatial Data Infrastructures • Work in concert with Geospatial One-Stop and other Federal programs for broader data discovery • Have a single inventory tool • Unique state identity (promote buy-in) • Reduce the need for the multiple ad-hoc inventories conducted by federal and state agencies

4. Primary Components of the GIS Inventory • Inventory of • Users • Organizations • Systems • Policies • Geography • 478 Data Layers • Status Maps and Query Capability • Directory of Users • Reports • User Support • Newsletter Tool • Administrative Tools • Metadata Generation Tool • Metadata Repositories (Web Folder and CSW) • Supports the Annual NSGIC State Summaries

5. Important Features • Open source • Simple and intuitive interface • Inexpensive to modify and maintain • $6,000 per year for hardware/software/ISP • Original User Needs and System Build - $60k (NOAA funded through BAA) • Total Investment is < $200k to date from (NOAA, FEMA, FGDC, DHS) • Do we need to say – virtually no cost to you

6. Underlying Architecture • PHP - programming • MapServer - mapping interface • MySQL – database • Commercial Hardware (Liquid Web) • Dedicated High Speed Server • RAID Level 1 Storage • On-Site and Off-Site Backup • 2-hour repair/replacement guarantee

7. Interoperability

8. User Interface

9. Status Maps • Visualize status of particular data layers • Map can be customized • Information reports on all data layers

10. User completes information Categories User Organization Systems Policies Geography 10 to 25 minutes for complete documentation User Profile

11. 478 Layers – Only document what you produce 6 standard questions 6 layers have additional questions 30 seconds to 2 minutes per layer Publish your information from this screen Data Documentation

12. Search tool to find any user registered in your state Listings are graphics to prevent data mining on the site Links to E-mail and Organization Web Address Directory

13. Getting Started Guide and User Support Form

14. Administrator’s Panel

15. List all users Various Search Functions Add Users Reassign Profile to a New User Modify User Accounts Set Administrative Privileges Administrator Tools User Tab

16. Review any metadata record in the system to check out external error reports Metadata Tab

17. Run reports based on your own search criteria Reports

18. Sample Report

19. Detail on Orthoimagery

20. Ability to add questions that are important to the state. Formats Single answer multiple choice Multiple answer multiple choice Free text answer Unique State Questions

21. Can create and send newsletters to all users in the state or to a select group (i.e. just the administrators) HTML or Plain Text options Newsletter Function

22. Users request support on problems or report bugs in system Administrators get E-mail alerts from the Support Forum and respond to requests Maintains a complete record of the dialogue Can close and re-open tickets as needed Support Forum (Super Users Only)

23. Metadata Requirements • GIS Inventory does not ingest metadata • too many variables in free text fields • GIS Inventory has a structured series of questions in several functional areas • GIS Inventory creates “starter” metadata that is compliant with the FGDC CSDGM standard

24. Customers • State and local governments and their partners from many sectors, including private business • Select Federal Agencies (FEMA, DHS, NDOP, NDEP) • FGDC Cadastral Committee (new) • GOS Portal • General Public

25. How or why are they using the system? • Data Discovery • Strategic and Business Plan Development • Building Spatial Data Infrastructures • Research on Status and Trends

26. User Statistics

27. North Carolina Geospatial Inventory Total Number of Registered Contacts on NC OneMap Inventory: 403 Total Number of Organizations that Create GIS Data: 211 Management Information PartialReport

28. STATUS OF MAJOR DATA LAYERS ORTHOIMAGERY Total number of responses: 82 (6 responses were blank) Total number of responses: 88

29. AGENCIES REGISTERED ON NC ONEMAP INVENTORY Total Number of Responses: 206

30. Organizations That Create GIS Data Organizations That Currently Create FGDC Metadata Organizations That Make Data Available For Download Organizations That Have a Written Data Distribution Policy County Parcel Attributes County Road Centerline Attributes County Road Centerline Types More More More…. North Carolina Tabular Reports

31. Marketing Materials Customize for each state

32. Testimonials • Don’t take our word – look at what others are saying about the GIS Inventory

33. State Summaries Over 50 Questions About Statewide GIS Coordination Activities

34. Individual State and Aggregate Nationwide Reports

35. Ability to Map Many Questions States where Counties & Parishes Participate on Statewide GIS Council States where Counties & Parishes have an Official Seat on the Statewide GIS Council

36. Questions ? This presentation was funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security