Transportation for the Nation

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Transportation for the Nation
Paul WieseNational Geospatial Technical
Operations Center
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National Map Data Themes

• Elevation
• Orthoimagery
• Hydrography
• Transportation
• Boundaries (Govt Units)
• Structures
• Names

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Approach

• Modeled on National Hydrography Dataset
• NSDI layer for hydrography
• Partnership of Federal and State agencies working
  with Academia and Industry to advance data
  program
• Collaborative design and development
• Shared data maintenance
• Hybrid of central and distributed data hosting
• Central national database at USGS
• Distributed regional databases at States and
  Regions

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Approach
Local Data Sets
State/Regional Data Sets
National Data Sets
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Approach

• Initial framework level coverage from Census as
  the best available national data
• Seamless
• Integrated
• Consistent
• Incorporate State or Regional data as replacement
  or as update
• Process of continuous update, integration and
  improvement

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Model Design Concepts

• Continuous data maintenance
• Change management
• Lineage/Archive
• Distributed databases
• National and State/Regional databases
• Data links
• Source (Metadata)
• Extension
• Integration with other related National datasets

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Links

• http//bpgeo.cr.usgs.gov
• http//bpgeo.cr.usgs.gov/model/