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The Delaware DataMIL
The DataMIL Team
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An Outline
• About Delaware
• Delaware’s GIS Community
• The Delaware Spatial Data Framework
• Delaware and The National Map
• “We Can Do That”
• We Did…. Now What?
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We’re Small
• 2,000 Square Miles
(Give or Take)
• 784,000 Folks
• 3 Counties
• 57 Municipalities
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We like being “First”
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We all know each other
The Sec. of Agriculture and the The Sec. of Agriculture and the State Planning DirectorState Planning DirectorLevy Court Commission Brooks Banta and
Governor Ruth Ann Minner
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We have a tradition of individualism
• A small, agrarian state…
• …that developed rapidly.
• Delaware attracts people tired of the big cities (and governments) around it.
• We have to respect that.
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Our Challenge
• Create and maintain useful data
• Accurate, up-to-date, statewide
• Open to all
• In a completely distributed environment
• With no truly formal control
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In Delaware…
• No central “GIS Authority”
• Data developed at, and shared among, all levels of government
• Based on a shared Framework standard: data sets “work together”
• All contribute data, all gain data
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Coordination, Not Control
• Local expertise creates better data
• Two keys:– Communicate– Share Data
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Delaware’s GIS Community
• Inter-related Committees– State Mapping Advisory Committee– Delaware Geographic Data Committee– Delaware Spatial Data I-Team
• Focused on Delaware’s Spatial Data Framework
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The Spatial Data Framework
• Accepted in 2000
• The “skeleton” that holds together a wide variety of spatial data sets
• Limited to core, skeletal data sets
• Part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery
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Why so Fast and Complete?
• Partnerships– DGS, USGS, DGDC, SMAC, DE-GIS
Community
• Remember what we said about being small?
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Why so Fast and Complete?
• Good Planning by DE Mapping Community– New Topos, 1992-93– A Push for DLGs
• Great Team Synergy
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Improving the Framework
• Find ways to combine Local, State and Federal data
• Explore combining information and data
• And share data and information with the public
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NSGIC, Sept. 2000, Tahoe
• Discussion With USGS
• We have data…
• …you have data
• DLG updates?
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• DataMIL and The National Map Coincidence
• Tremendous Synergy and Focus
• Past, Present Partnerships Important
Fate?
Serendipity?
Karma?Destiny?
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Can We Have…
• Somewhere on-line to combine and compare data?
• A “co-laboratory” where we can host discussions?
• With mini Topo Maps?
• An easy-to-use interface?
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“We Can Do That”
• University of Delaware RDMS
• USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Center
• The DataMIL Team
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Resolution
DataMIL Feedback
User
Delaware Geological
Survey
Delaware Geological
Survey
Mapping &Metadata
Mapping &Metadata
Database
US GeologicalSurvey
US GeologicalSurvey
DelawareData
Providers
FederalAgencies
DiscussionForums
DiscussionForumsErrors
Comments
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April 18, 2002
“Delaware was the ‘First State’ at the start of the nation; now we're ready to be the first state in the new, 21st century National Map.”
-- Gov. Minner
Gov. Minner at Delaware GIS 2002: Gov. Minner at Delaware GIS 2002:
Connecting CommunitiesConnecting Communities
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Making It Known
• Governor’s Press Release
• Newspapers, TV, limited Radio
• Shameless web links
• Relentless e-mailing
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Real World Uses
• It’s Shields, Not “Shilds”
• That’s not a stream, that’s a driveway.
• Selbyville Police Chief– Emergency planning– Knowing where the
ditches are.
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What Next?
• Mapping Partnership Office (MPO)
• Alignment of the Framework Layers
• Cadastral Layers
• Realignment of the Framework Layers
• Maintenance
• More Layers?
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The Delaware DataMIL
datamil.udel.edu