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ESRI International Users Conference

The Delaware DataMIL

The DataMIL Team


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?


We’re Small

• 2,000 Square Miles

(Give or Take)

• 784,000 Folks

• 3 Counties

• 57 Municipalities


We like being “First”


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


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.


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


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


Coordination, Not Control

• Local expertise creates better data

• Two keys:– Communicate– Share Data


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


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)


Geographic NamesLand UseCadastralTransportationHydrographyGovernmental UnitsGeodetic ControlHypsographyOrthoimagery


Why so Fast and Complete?

• Partnerships– DGS, USGS, DGDC, SMAC, DE-GIS

Community

• Remember what we said about being small?


Why so Fast and Complete?

• Good Planning by DE Mapping Community– New Topos, 1992-93– A Push for DLGs

• Great Team Synergy


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


NSGIC, Sept. 2000, Tahoe

• Discussion With USGS

• We have data…

• …you have data

• DLG updates?


• DataMIL and The National Map Coincidence

• Tremendous Synergy and Focus

• Past, Present Partnerships Important

Fate?

Serendipity?

Karma?Destiny?


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?


“We Can Do That”

• University of Delaware RDMS

• USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Center

• The DataMIL Team


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


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


Making It Known

• Governor’s Press Release

• Newspapers, TV, limited Radio

• Shameless web links

• Relentless e-mailing


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.


What Next?

• Mapping Partnership Office (MPO)

• Alignment of the Framework Layers

• Cadastral Layers

• Realignment of the Framework Layers

• Maintenance

• More Layers?


The Delaware DataMIL

datamil.udel.edu

esri international users conference the delaware datamil the datamil team

Documents

share data slide

gain data slide

formal control slide

better data

datamil team slide

skeletal data sets

data sets work

wide variety of spatial