CO GIS Coordination and
Development Program Update
Denver Regional Data Consortium
April 28, 2016
Talking Points
Parcels
Tactical plan
LiDAR plan/update
Data governance/maturity
Tactical Plan
Plan derived from coordination summit July 2015
Outline
• GIS coordination vision, objectives, and principles
• Brief description of the current GIS landscape
• Report on the GIS Data Coordination Summit
• Description of coordination tasks for fiscal year
• High level milestones
Mission
We realize the full value of geographic information systems by making access to comprehensive data –
including broadband service data – seamless and formatted in a way that maximizes its benefit to decision-
making in the state. We are a place where Coloradans can gain answers and expertise about GIS and its
possibilities in order to expand the value of these technologies as efficiently and effectively as possible, and
we are the facilitator of a robust GIS community where knowledge and information is shared freely.
Objectives
• Get data in one place, and then make state data open and accessible unless it contains PII, security
sensitive or proprietary information.
• Organize data necessary for critical applications.
• Reduce the cost and overhead for data sharing.
• Maximize the utility and value of data.
• Enhance and support GIS use among state and local entities.
• Increase data governance maturity.
Guiding Priniciples
• Create or ask for data once, use it many times.
• While potentially slower in the short term, collaboration is cheaper in the long term.
• The value of data increases with use.
• Where not restricted by privacy, security or proprietary (e.g. data license) considerations, data should
be open.
• More eyes on, or more use of data, may demonstrate applications not thought of previously.
• Coordination should not hinder the work of state agencies and should bring value to agencies’ work.
Data Call
Data Under Active Stewardship Address Points: Point locations of addresses. Estimate 95-98 percent of addresses
in state are covered and available through web services, download and geocoding
service.
“Community Anchor Institutions”: Public safety, education, health care, higher
education and other government facilities available through web services and
download from Colorado Information Marketplace (CIM) at data.colorado.gov.
Parcels: Nineteen counties have been integrated into a standardized, single data
set available on CIM. Working on integrating remaining counties.
Hydrography: National Hydrography Dataset, maintained by the Division of Water
Resources. This is available on OIT’s FTP site and through a web map service.
Municipal boundaries: Maintained by Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) through
annual updates of annexations available through DOLA’s ArcGIS Online org.
LiDAR: Local and state LiDAR data distributed through GeoData Cache
(geodata.co.gov)
Counties Providing GIS Data
Essential for various state government activities: • Division of Water Resources
• State Land Board
• Division of Parks and Wildlife
• Department of Public Health and Environment
• Emergency Management
• Department of Transportation
• Oil & Gas Commission
Federal emergency management activities • FEMA response
• Disaster response planning
Other quasi-governmental/NGO needs • Red Cross
• CO 811 (Call before you dig)
Why Parcels?
Parcels - Initial Focus
Compile data received from counties • Currently have complete or partial data for 49 of the 64
counties (76%)
Consolidate the data • Transform data into a singular format (GDB)
• 49 of the 49 datasets are complete (100%)
Field Mapping • Match each county’s data to the state schema (95% complete)
• Current schema has 30 fields
Parcels - How
GDAL - geospatial library
functions designed to use
in different applications -
QGIS is the most well
known example
ogr2ogr - command line
interface to execute the
GDAL library functions
Focus on Open Source solutions • Reduce the cost and overhead for data sharing
• Maximize the utility and value of the process and
data
Parcels - Hurdles Current:
• Standardization
o Multiple formats (shp, gdb, mdb, dwg, xls, etc…)
o Multiple coordinate systems (NAD 83, WGS84, etc…)
• Data interpretation
o Lack of metadata
Future:
• Outreach for missing data
o Is the data available
o Identify the authoritative source
in each county
Example of missing data:
Rankings of Mission Areas
1. Emergency Management & Response (41)
2. Transportation (23)
3. Economic Development (18)
4. Law Enforcement & Public Safety (17)
5. Information and Technology Management (17)
6. Environmental Management (16)
7. Water (16)
8. Natural Resources (14)
9. Planning and Resource Allocation (11)
1. Emergency Management & Response (3 groups)
2. Economic Development (2 groups)
4. Water (1 group)
3. Planning and Resource Allocation (2 groups)
Front Range 2015 West Slope 2015
Folks attending the Summit activity May 2015 in Denver ranked business segments that would benefit from or require geographic
information most. In Montrose, participants divided into three groups and discussed their highest priority business areas.
What data is critical to the Top Mission Areas? Front Range 2015
Priority 1 2 3 4 5
Emergency Management
Structures - Addresses
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Transportation - Roads
Boundaries - Government Units:
State, County, Municipal, District
Imagery - High Resolution:
Municipal, County and Metro
Structures - Community Facilities
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Transportation Transportation -
Roads Transportation -
Railways
Transportation - Other:
Air, Bike, Sidewalks, etc.
Boundaries - Government Units:
State, County, Municipal, District
Structures - Addresses
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Economic Development
Transportation - Roads
Structures - Addresses
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Land Ownership and Use - Parcels
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Transportation - Railways
Society - Demographics:
Population
Law Enforcement
Transportation - Roads
Imagery - High Resolution:
Municipal, County and Metro
Recreation - Trails
Structures - Addresses
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Land Ownership and Use - Parcels
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Information Technology
Transportation - Roads
Imagery - High Resolution:
Municipal, County and Metro
Recreation - Trails
Boundaries - Public Lands:
Federal, State, and Local
Imagery - Lower Resolution: Regional, State and National
NAIP (2011, 2013, 2015)
West Slope 2015
Priority 1 2 3 4
Emergency Management
Structures - Addresses
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Transportation - Roads
Land Ownership and Use - Parcels
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Imagery - High Resolution:
Municipal, County and Metro
Economic Development
Transportation - Roads
Land Ownership and Use - Parcels
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Land Ownership and Use - Land Use and
Land Cover
Law Enforcement Structures - Addresses
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Structures - Community Facilities
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Transportation - Roads
Recreation - Trails
Priority 5 6 7 8
Law Enforcement (continued)
Land Ownership and Use - Parcels
(map, feature, geocoding)*
Boundaries - Government Units:
State, County, Municipal, District
Boundaries - Government Units:
911 PSAPs/ESZs, COGs/EDCs, etc.
Imagery - High Resolution:
Municipal, County and Metro
Data Stewardship
Task Milestone Updated Milestone
Begin integration of parcel data for counties not included in
GoCode effort
September 2015 Done
Acquire LiDAR data in priority areas identified with CO Water
Conservation Board, CO Geological Survey and others
September 2015 In process
Complete incorporation of Anchor Institution changes from
local government data
Q2 FY16 Q4 FY16
Incorporate address data changes from local government
data
Q2 FY16 Q3 FY16
Assist with completion of special district boundary compilation Q2 FY16 May not be applicable
New call for local data not provided on continuous basis or for
specific project needs
January 2016 March 2016
Complete integration of county parcel data, publish service Q3 FY16 Q3 FY16
Continue to upload LiDAR and image data to GeoData Cache Ongoing Ongoing
Meet/coordinate with state agencies to publish data in CO
Information Marketplace
Ongoing Ongoing
Business Area Coordination
Task Milestone Updated Milestone
Identify emergency management GIS needs and
opportunities with Div of Homeland Security and
Emergency Management
September
2015
March 2016
Convene multi-jurisdiction EM working group September
2015
Focusing on Div first. Multi-
jurisdiction: June 2016
Publish blueprint for EM data and product sharing October 2015 June 2016
Stage emergency management data and convene data
sharing exercise
November
2015
September 2016
Convene multi-agency working group for economic
development to explore GIS contribution and data needs
Q2 FY16 Q2 FY16
Publish GIS blueprint for Economic Development Q4 FY16 Q4 FY16
Convene multi-agency working group to coordinate GIS
for additional business area
Q3 FY16 Q4 FY16
Staffing
Task Milestone Updated Milestone
Post 2 positions (GIS Analyst, Sr. Analyst w/server focus) July 2015 Done
Hire & onboard 2 new positions September 2015 Done
Post 2 positions (Sr. GIS Analyst, Sr. Analyst w/SDE
(enterprise spatial DB focus)
August 2015 Done
Hire & onboard 2 new positions October 2015 1 done, 2nd: April 2016
Infrastructure
Task Milestone Updated Milestone
Upgrade to AGS 10.3 Q2 FY16 On hold due to MPA issues
Review need for and deploy image services for NAIP
imagery and/or other or high resolution imagery
Q2 FY16 Q4 FY16
Depending on need, deploy new server stack to load
balance services and applications
Q2 FY16 Q4 FY16
Organize and publish ArcGIS Server web services directory
of framework data
Q3 FY16 Q4 FY16
Review and optimize infrastructure configuration Q3 FY16 Q4 FY16
Develop plan to present more organized structure of data
access points maintained by OIT and potentially others
Q3 FY16 Q4 FY16
Broadband Data Development
Task Milestone
Begin new call for broadband data July 2015
New data processing complete October 2015
Begin new call for broadband data January 2016
New data processing complete April 2016
LiDAR Plan
State received $2 million in
FY16 for LiDAR collection
Additional funds through hazard
mapping bill
Received some matching funds
from USGS BAA
CWCB continued funding from
FEMA for Risk Map
Decided to plant a stake in the
ground and boldy say statewide
LiDAR in 5-7 years
Existing/planned LiDAR Aug 2015
LiDAR Coordination Group
Jon Gottsegen CO OIT [email protected]
Iain Hyde CRRO [email protected]
Dave Hard CO DHSEM [email protected]
Marilyn Gally CO DHSEM [email protected]
Matt Morgan CO CGS [email protected]
Jason Campbell CDOT/AECOM [email protected]
Thuy Patton CWCB [email protected]
Ashley Summers DRCOG [email protected]
Carolyn Fritz DNR [email protected]
Chris Kadel Mesa Co. [email protected]
Chris Markuson Pueblo Co. [email protected]
Ryan Pietramali FEMA [email protected]
Corey Elliott FEMA [email protected]
David Sutley FEMA [email protected]
Giorgia deWolfe USBR [email protected]
Gordon Brenner City of Colorado Springs [email protected]
Kenneth Schauer BLM [email protected]
Chris Mueller USDA [email protected]
Pamela Fromhertz NOAA [email protected]
Rick Corsi Mesa Co. [email protected]
Doug Simon BLM [email protected]
Robert Aiken USFS [email protected]
Jon Kragt USACE [email protected]
Contents Introduction
What Is LiDAR?
• How does LiDAR work?
• Factors Impacting LiDAR Resolution and Accuracy
• Alternatives to LiDAR
Uses of LiDAR
Current Status of LiDAR
Priorities of LiDAR Collection
Steps Forward
• Data Access
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Next Steps
Priorities
Priority
Rank
DOLA Region Area Remaining
(squire miles)
Approximate Cost to
Acquire Remaining Area
Low Central 2,763 $897,975
Low North Central 4,995 $1,623,375
Low Northeastern 14,835 $4,821,375
High Northern Mountains 10,178 $3,307,850
Medium Northwestern 14,745 $4,792,125
Medium South Central 6,993 $2,272,725
Medium Southeastern 18,351 $5,964,075
High Southwestern 10,295 $3,345,875
Total 83,155 $27,025,375
• Potential for leveraging funds
• Cost/complexity of acquisition
• Presence of hazards
• Existing development or future development
pressure
• Other morphologic or land cover change
• Possible general risk/resiliency considerations
• Ecosystem restoration
• Potential for other good substitutes (IFSAR)
• Water quality
• Meteorology
• Archeology
• Mine sites, national parks, or other features of
interest
Moving forward
All LiDAR data, including bare earth DEM, classified LAS and
contour files, acquired by the state are publicly available
after completion of project and acceptance of deliverables,
except as restricted by licensing constraints from vendors.
Geodata Cache (https://geodata.co.gov)
Continued LiDAR coordination to leverage $ and avoid
duplication
FEMA directing $3.3 million to CO
Current status
Data Governance & Maturity
Data governance group
• Data inventory
• Authoritative data sources
• Governance for CO Information Marketplace
(http://data.colorado.gov)
Updating data inventory spreadsheet from 2010
(1.usa.gov/25noBR1)
Data maturity
Beyond data availability
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