Denver Regional Data ConsortiumMarch 2013

Agenda Introductions

Subcommittee Updates

Strategic Planning for 2013 Highlights from our Roundtable Discussion in November DRCOG Recommendations for Moving Forward

Subcommittee Updates

Boundaries 2013 Regional County Dataset – Used NCR

Agreement Points as a guide to resolve discrepancies between Counties.

2013 Regional Muni Boundary Dataset – NCR Agreement Points for Munis are not currently available. Muni Boundaries were snapped to County Boundaries where said boundaries are shared. NCR Muni Agreement Points will be used for the next Regional Muni Boundary Dataset.

Datasets are now available on DRCOG’s Regional Data Catalog

Census 5 commonly used tables each from both the SF1

and ACS will be added to the Regional Data Catalog, as discussed in the last Census Subcommittee Meeting, 12/12. Goal is May

Future Datasets will be added depending on staff time and public demand

No subcommittee update

Good news: DRCOG is creating a 2012 Regional Open Space layer that

combines: Locally submitted data COMAP DRCOG Open Space Layer 2010

Can we share it? Still trying to figure that out. It’s likely we can share your

jurisdiction back to you; not sure about a regional layer to everyone.

Common/Open Space

DRAPP DRAPP 2012 is 99% done.

Requirements gathering for DRAPP 2014 has already begun.

Budget meeting in April to discuss cost of add-ons

If you weren’t part of DRAPP 2012 and want to be part of 2014, please contact me.

Built Environment We have data to share with you!

DRCOG Purchased InfoGroup (formerly InfoUSA) data in September of 2012.

We bought REGIONAL BUSINESS and RESIDENTIAL datasets to feed the Land Use Model (UrbanSim).

We’ve cleaned and QAQC’ed it; it’s ready to use! We can share it for FREE with member governments and

approved partners, if an agreement is signed. And… Buildings and Scheduled Development are

available too! Your jurisdiction only

Notes on data Why might the data look wrong to you?

We have to fill data gaps (attribution and geometry). We have limited time to create datasets, exacerbated by:

Receiving data in a variety of formats Receiving data that’s not “clean” (e.g. won’t geocode) Receiving data late Not receiving data at all and having to mine it from other sources or

develop methodology to estimate it.

How might we fix this in the future? Better communication with you on what we need and when

we need it Collaboration – let’s try to match formats, schemas where we

can Open Data Sharing – make your data easier to get to

Recap of Available Data

2013 County Boundaries (Regional Data Catalog)

2013 Muni Boundaries (Regional Data Catalog)

2010 Census Data (Regional Data Catalog)

2012 InfoGroup Regional Business (DVD by request)

2012 InfoGroup Regional Residential (DVD by request)

2010 Buildings by Jurisdiction (DVD by request)

2011 Scheduled Dev. by Jurisdiction (DVD by request)

2012 Open Space by Jurisdiction (DVD by request)

Requesting Data How to request data:

Email Ashley - asummers@drcog.org

Remember that you must have a signed data sharing agreement in place to get the InfoGroup data (and maybe the other stuff too)!

Data Delivery: Via DVD in May/June/July or as signed agreements

are received.

Strategic Planning

Recap of 2012 What was said at our roundtable

discussion? Creating fewer, more focused subcommittees in 2012. Data Dash was a good idea; would like to see it used for

smaller objectives to make it more focused and thus more successful.

Aligning objectives with other agencies and regional initiatives, like OIT and NCR. For example, using the NCR agreement points as a guideline for the boundaries subcommittee is a beneficial collaborative effort.

Tech and Policy Teams were a great idea and should continue into 2013.

Suggestions for 2013

Continue to pursue the regional boundary layer, possibly with DRCOG serving as a BAS adjudicator (US Census).

Subcommittees need a champion/sponsor (such as an agency like Denver Water or Urban Drainage) to make them successful.

Use the Data Dash idea for the Boundaries subcommittee.

Continue to pursue collaboration between the OIT Address Points Initiative and the DRCOG Built Environment Initiative.

Progress on data sharing agreements is paramount in 2013.

DRCOG will not pursue a role as BAS Adjudicator.

We need suggestions.

Josh (DRCOG) completed the 2013 boundaries layer.

DRCOG will pursue this partnership.

Will need a new strategy if we want to pursue. Grassroots?

Policy Team One of our major objectives…

Determining a strategy for encouraging data sharing.

Status Data Sharing Policy – Results from the 3/20 Board Meeting

The board took no action on the board memo and resolution stating that they did not feel it was appropriate for the board to legislate on this issue. Among their comments, they mentioned the following:

The message was too forceful. They would prefer we handle data sharing issues on an individual jurisdiction basis. Board members would like to be notified when their staff does not respond to

DRCOG. They were under the impression that their staffs were already required to submit

data. This was an incorrect assumption and it was not addressed further.

Recommendations Meet less frequently No subcommittees New goal for the group – information

sharing, brainstorming, collaborating Participatory – our members share

something from their communities at the meetings

DRCOG Newsletter to you regarding our data efforts?

Comments?

Thank you!