CommunityWide Data Sharing Lets Make It Easy

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Community-Wide Data Sharing Lets Make It Easy
Anne Payne, GISP NC Geographic Information
Coordinating Council Member
Wake County Government
Tom Tribble NC Geographic Information
Coordinating Council Staff
CGIA

• February 4, 2008

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NC Geographic Information Coordinating Council
(GICC)

• Established by legislation 
• Represents the entire NC GIS Community
• Advises the Governor and Legislature
• Fosters Cooperation
• Develops Policies, Adopts Standards
• Oversees Committee Work

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GICC Mission
Improve the quality, access, cost-effectiveness
and utility of North Carolina's geographic
information and promote geographic information as
a strategic resource for the State.
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Committees to the GICC

• Local Government Committee
• State Government Users Committee
• Federal Interagency Committee
• Statewide Mapping Advisory Committee
• Technical Advisory Committee

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Geospatial Collaboration in North Carolina What
is NC OneMap?

• Comprehensive, Statewide Program That Promotes
  Best Practices
• Geospatial Data Standards
• Data Currency, Maintenance and Accessibility
• Data Documentation
• GIS Inventory
• Cost Share Opportunities

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NC OneMapgeographic data serving a statewide
communitywww.nconemap.com

• Find View Get
• North Carolinas Digital
• Geospatial Data

• Vision for Data Coordination and Distribution

Enabling Spatial Government

• Partnership of the NC GIS Community

• State Clearinghouse for Geospatial Information

• Spatial Data Backbone

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Background onData Sharing

• Local Government Concerns
• Ad Hoc Committee Established
• Meetings March June
• Recommendations to Council
• Community Feedback Period

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Local Voice

• The State should designate a single state agency
  to serve as a clearinghouse for all data
  requests by state government agencies to local
  governments

Does not imply warehouse
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Local Voice

• There is lack of communication among state
  agencies
• The issues are complicated and the inconsistent
  policies at the local government level contribute
  to the problem

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Local Voice

• A mix of policy, process, and technology
  solutions will be required to solve the problem
• Recommendations to address the issues should be
  consistent with the vision and characteristics of
  NC OneMap

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Committee Work

• Focus on Policy and Process
• Each Public Sector Brings Value
• Shared Approach Brings Greater Value

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Report _________________Recommendations
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Avoid Formal Agreements

• Rare Exceptions
• Protected or Confidential (by statute!)
• Public Safety or Security Risk (law or determined
  by using GICC-adopted federal guidelines)

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Web AccessTo Data(Preferably viaNC OneMap)
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Secure Access Example WGRT (If ABSOLUTELY
Necessary!)
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FREE Data We dont charge each other!
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Single Point of Contact NC OneMap Inventory
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Regional Solutions (Where Appropriate)
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Official Outlets Trusted Source Concept
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Archiving and Long-Term Access Retention
Strategies Historic Data
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NC OneMap Branding
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Outreach via NC GICC

• CURISA and Other Local Govt Comm. Orgs NCPMA,
  NCLGISA , ARCED, NCACC, NCLOM
• State Government Users Group
• Federal Interagency Committee

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Core Practices
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Review of Data Sharing Report

• GICC Membership
• All GICC Committees

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Local Government Review

• Local Government Committee
• GIS Advisory Team
• Various List Services

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On the list service..
I believe the report does a great job of
addressing data sharing...I feel that for this
data sharing initiative to be truly successful it
is essential that we all learn to write excellent
metadata.  In addition to learning how to write
great metadata we have to actually write it and
write it without cutting corners.  Rarely do I
download data and look at the metadata and feel
that it is complete, correct and accurate. 
NCLGISA, Franklin, NC 9/6/07
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GICC Actions11/01/07

• Ad Hoc Committee Submitted Revised
  Recommendations
• Adoption of the Recommendations
• Work Group to Address Archiving
• Notification of State Agencies

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Panel Perspectives
Kathryn Brewer, Henderson Co., NC Nancy von
Meyer, Fairview Industries Mark Depenning, City
of Greenville Jarad Shoultz, SCDEC
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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Most intense fire season of the past 10 years
• Nearly every fire was a major event
• 533 counties were contacted about providing
  parcel data to support the wildland fire effort
• Here are some data sharing results

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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Avoid formal agreements
• 34 counties required an agreement to share data
  with wildland fire
• Most agreements centered on not redistributing
  beyond wildland fire needs

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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Web Access to data
• About 25 of the counties had web access for
  downloading, although manys of these are spatial
  data and not attribute data.

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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Secure Data Sharing
• A secured FTP site was established for data
  repository.
• Data was pulled into wildland fire system for
  processing.

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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Data is Free
• No data was paid for in this project, although
  nearly 20 of the counties did charge for data to
  non-government data sharing.
• Trend is to charge for web services not for the
  data.

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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Single Point of Contact

Blue colored counties have more than one point of
contact for spatial and attribute parcel
data. Other than Montana this is about 50 of the
counties.
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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Regional Solutions

Only 5 of the 533 counties participated in a
regional solution. Oregon has a regional approach
to parcel data development.
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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Official Outlets (Trusted Source)

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2008 Wildland Fire Season Western United States

• Archiving and Long Term Sources
• We dont know yet but things are beginning to
  turn the avergae time is three years to get
  data sharing institutionalized.

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Your Thoughts?
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Lets Make It Easy