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2012 Agency Roll CallWV GIS Conference

Final ReportJuly 2012

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Table of Contents

Federal Government

1. Farm Service Agency........................................................................................................................12. Federal Emergency Management Agency........................................................................................23. Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data to the Regions.....................................................34. Monongahela National Forest...........................................................................................................55. NASA IV&V Facility Educator Resource Center............................................................................76. National Park Service.......................................................................................................................87. Natural Resources Conservation Service — Soil Survey Office......................................................98. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Huntington District..................................................................109. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Pittsburgh District (2006)........................................................1110. U.S. Census Bureau — Geography Division..................................................................................1211. U.S. Geological Survey — National Geospatial Program Office...................................................1312. U.S. Geological Survey — Water Resources Division (2008).......................................................15

State Government13. State Historic Preservation Office..................................................................................................1714. WV Army National Guard..............................................................................................................1815. WV Department of Agriculture — Plant Industries Division........................................................1916. WV Department of Education........................................................................................................2017. WV Department of Environmental Protection...............................................................................2118. WV Department of Health and Human Resources, Environmental Engineering Division, Source

Water Assessment and Wellhead Protection Program...................................................................2319. WV Department of Health and Human Resources — Health Care Authority (2008)...................2420. WV Department of Tax and Revenue — Property Tax Division...................................................2621. WV Department of Transportation.................................................................................................2722. WV Development Office................................................................................................................2923. WV Division of Forestry................................................................................................................3024. WV Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management.................................................3225. WV Division of Natural Resources................................................................................................3426. WV Geological and Economic Survey...........................................................................................3527. WV Geological and Economic Survey — Office of GIS Coordination.........................................3828. WV Legislative Redistricting Office (2008)..................................................................................40

Education and Research29. Concord University.........................................................................................................................4230. Glenville State College...................................................................................................................4331. Marshall University — College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE).................4432. Marshall University — Geography Department.............................................................................4533. Marshall University — Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute...........................4634. West Virginia University — Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.........4835. West Virginia University — Department of Geology & Geography, Eberly College of Arts &

Sciences..........................................................................................................................................5036. West Virginia University — Natural Resource Analysis Center...................................................5237. West Virginia University — Northern WV Brownfields Assistance Center.................................5438. West Virginia University — WV GIS Technical Center...............................................................5539. West Virginia University — West Virginia View..........................................................................5740. West Virginia University — WV Water Research Institute...........................................................58

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Regional and Local OrganizationsCities

41. City of Bridgeport...........................................................................................................................5942. City of Charleston...........................................................................................................................6043. City of Morgantown........................................................................................................................61

Counties44. Berkeley County Commission........................................................................................................6345. Cabell County 911..........................................................................................................................6446. Fayette County Assessor’s Office...................................................................................................6547. Grant County Mapping & Addressing Office.................................................................................6748. Greenbrier County Assessor’s Office.............................................................................................6849. Harrison County..............................................................................................................................6950. Jefferson County GIS/Addressing..................................................................................................7051. Jefferson County Assessor’s Office................................................................................................7152. Marion County Assessor’s Office...................................................................................................7253. Mineral County Addressing-Mapping Office.................................................................................7354. Monongalia County Commission...................................................................................................7455. Ohio County Community Development.........................................................................................7556. Preston County Assessor’s Office..................................................................................................7657. Putnam County Assessor’s Office..................................................................................................7758. Tucker County 911.........................................................................................................................7859. Tucker County Assessor’s Office...................................................................................................7960. Wood County Assessor’s Office.....................................................................................................80

Regional61. Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle MPO.............................................................................................8162. KYOVA Interstate Planning Commission......................................................................................8263. Morgantown-Monongalia MPO.....................................................................................................8364. Region 1: Planning and Development Council..............................................................................8465. Region 5: Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council and Wood-Washington-Wirt Interstate Planning

Commission (2006).........................................................................................................................8566. Region 8: Planning & Development Council (2006).....................................................................8667. Region 10: Bel-O-Mar Regional Council and Interstate Planning Commission...........................87

Other Associations, Societies, & Councils68. Mountaineer Area Rescue Group...................................................................................................8869. The Nature Conservancy, West Virginia Chapter..........................................................................8970. WV Association of Geospatial Professionals.................................................................................9071. WV GIS Policy Council.................................................................................................................9272. WV Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council........................................................................9373. WV Society of Professional Surveyors..........................................................................................94

Note: The year in parenthesis indicates the previous submission year of the report.

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Federal Government 2012 Agency Roll Call

Farm Service AgencyAgency Name: USDA, Farm Service AgencyContact Name: April Savage ([email protected] )Contact Phone: (304) 284-4800URL: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/wv/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA) has established the Common Land Unit (CLU) as a standardized GIS data layer that allows mapping to be easily integrated on a nationwide basis. The USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) has implemented desktop GIS at more than 3,000 field service center locations across the country. Ultimately, the GIS resources for the agency will be managed in a distributed database environment. As with many public agencies, the majority of FSA's business data contains geospatial components or is referenced to geographic locations (e.g., land records, field locations, and soil types).

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The CLU data layer has been successfully implemented in GIS by the FSA. This layer includes all farm fields, rangeland, and pastureland in the United States. In conjunction with digital imagery and other data, FSA uses the CLU data layers to support farm service programs, monitor compliance, and respond to natural disasters.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Stabilizing farm income, helping farmers conserve land and water resources, providing credit to new or disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, and helping farm operations recover from the effects of disaster are the missions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA).

Federal Emergency Management Agency Agency Name: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IIIContact Name: Robert Pierson ([email protected])Contact Phone: (215) 931-5650URL: http://www.fema.gov/ AND http://store.msc.fema.gov/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Making Flood Hazard data available for all and in digital format.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Flood hazard data.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?WV Flood Hazard Tool (http://www.mapwv.gov/flood).

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions or the private sector:Coordination with State, WVU GIS Technical Center, Region 1 PDC, and all counties.

Top geospatial goal for the coming year:Finish digitizing all WV Flood Insurance rate maps.

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Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data to the Regions Agency Name: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data to the RegionsContact Name: A. Jason Barnett ([email protected])Contact Phone: (757) 892-6436URL: www.hifldwg.org

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data to the Regions (HTTR) mission is to advance the success of the national level HIFLD Working Group (www.hifldwg.org) by deploying a similar capability into regions across the United States. The HIFLD to the Regions (HTTR) team focuses on supporting State and local priorities and issues to (1) extend awareness and reach of Federal infrastructure protection resources, (2) increase and enhance regional geospatial coordination activities, (3) strengthen Federal, State, local and private sector partnerships, and (4) support the identification, enhancement, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial infrastructure data.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Gold and Freedom 2012 Overview video available via YouTube on www.hifldwg.org homepage or by visiting

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What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? Collaborative mapping support to National Special Security Events (NSSEs), Steady State

Events, Regional Resiliency Assessment Programs (RRAPs), all hazard response, and training exercises.

DHS Geospatial Information Infrastructure (GII)1: https://gii.dhs.govo HSIP Gold Web Serviceso DHS Earth (Google Earth based application)o DHS OneView (Web mapping application)

Homeland-Defense Operational Planning System (HOPS): https://hops-info.llnl.govo HSIP Gold Web Services

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? HIFLD Working Group (www.hifldwg.org) Mid-Atlantic GIS Working Group Request HSIP Gold, Freedom, & NAVTEQ State Release 2012 Data sets Utilize DHS OneView, DHS Earth, and HSIP Gold web services.

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Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: The Information Exchange Brokers serve as field extension support to the HIFLD working group. Their regional presence allows them to continuously engage with partners to promote domestic infrastructure information gathering, sharing, protection, enhancement, visualization, and spatial analysis. IEBs collaborate with and support a variety of stakeholders, including Federal, state, and local government officials, USGS Liaisons, FEMA Regional Offices, and DHS Infrastructure Regional Directors, Protective Security Advisors, and Geospatial Analysts to:

Create and foster partnerships with, and relationships between, Federal, state, local, tribal, and private sector stakeholders

Share best practices and lessons learned from across the nation to reduce duplication of effort and mature capabilities

Support special events by bringing together people, partnerships, foundation geospatial infrastructure data and geospatial resources

Assist with distribution of the Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Gold and Freedom databases, and encourage feedback from data users

Ensure the best available geospatial data is discovered, improved, and shared among partners in the HLS, HD, and EPR&R communities

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years: 1. HSIP Gold and Freedom 2012 Release2. Seven Mid-Atlantic GIS Working Group meetings in collaboration with the FEMA Region III

RISC GIS Subcommittee with approximately 180 total participants.3. Collaborative geospatial support for several regional/multi-agency steady state, hazard, and

exercise events.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year: 1. Continued growth of the Mid-Atlantic GIS Working Group.2. Increase awareness of the HSIP data availability and other free federal geospatial resources

within the Homeland Security/Homeland Defense, and Emergency Management community.3. Continued feedback collection and refinement of HSIP datasets.

Monongahela National Forest Agency Name: Monongahela National ForestContact Name: Sam Lammie, GIS Program Manager ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 636-1800 ext. 207URL: http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/mnf

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The US Forest Service management context for GIS is to facilitate an enterprise-wide geospatial architecture that ensures quality geospatial information is current, is developed collaboratively, adheres to government standards, and is routinely available for not only internal use by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), but also by an increasingly geographically and information technology-aware public. This geospatial framework is embedded within a national mission to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity for more than 190 million acres of Nation’s forests and grasslands in meeting the needs of present and future generations. The Forest Service mission is guided by the fundamental principle, epitomized within a Secretary Vilsack's "all-lands-vision," of providing the greatest good for the greatest amount of people in the long run and is characterized by the slogan: Caring for the Land and Serving People. The Monongahela National Forest, representing over 919,000

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acres or 6% of West Virginia lands, is committed to current national priorities of enhancing water resources, responding to climate change, community-based stewardship, and jobs in rural communities. Geospatial technologies are critical for providing Forest Service staff (over 100 employees) and stakeholders the tools to help in getting the job done..

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The Forest Service is responsible for vegetation data-related activities under the policy guidance and oversight of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Monongahela National Forest, through the national office and technology centers, specifically provides a wide range of geographic data and services to the public. These can be accessed online through the Geospatial Service and Technology Center (http://www.fs.fed.us/gstc/) and the Remote Sensing and Applications Center (http://www.fs.fed.us/eng/rsac/programs/list.html) in Salt Lake City. In addition, local geospatial efforts include presenting at various workshops in conjunction with WV Future Generations in "geospatial" mentoring of local volunteer fire departments and communities. Forest geospatial staff is actively involved on the statewide GIS Steering Committee and the West Virginia Association of Geospatial Professionals (WVAGP). Other collaborative work has and is being accomplished with The Nature Conservancy, The Mountain Institute, local schools and colleges.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The Monongahela National Forest, the Regional Forest Service office (located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), and the Washington Office have consistently provided data, funding, and support to statewide efforts to develop a variety of geospatial products ranging from traditional cartographic products (such as the primary base series maps and the Forest Visitor Map), to the periodic collection of state-wide aerial photography through the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) in cooperation with a number of USDA agencies, and to a wide variety of digital geographic data layers (not limited to and ranging from NHD data to recreational trails to Forest system roads to base data cartographic feature files). The Monongahela National Forest has provided this suite of geographic data (and the associated metadata) to the West Virginia GIS Technical Center for incorporation into the state data clearinghouse. The Monongahela National Forest has also provided data to a variety of state-wide departments, agencies, and organizations.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The Monongahela National Forest is committed to working with local communities, volunteers and contractors in all aspects and efforts in fulfilling our congressional mandate of land management. The Forest has active partnerships in a broad program array of areas including fire, timber, wildlife, aquatics, lands, and recreation with a diverse group of stakeholders including other Federal agencies, West Virginia local and state government, West Virginia University, The Nature Conservancy, The Trust for Public Lands, and other parties. Our Volunteer program is on-going and currently consists of more than ten individuals that are helping out in a myriad of ways mainly through the Americorps program, but also through developing partnerships with local schools and colleges

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completion/production of annual Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) in hardcopy and with

interactive online access2. Initiated the revision process for the Forest Visitor Map (FVM) and primary base series (quad).3. Conducted three Geospatial mentoring workshops for local volunteer fire departments and

communities in conjunction with WV Future Generations.

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Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Complete Forest Visitor Map revision (at 1:126720 scale) and updated (and ongoing) digital access

to a revised Forest Service 1:24000 scale primary base series set of quads2. Update Forest base data sets and deliver these to the national and state (at WVU) geospatial data

clearinghouses for public access3. Provide critical GIS and GPS training to 40+ Forest Service employees and volunteers.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.:1. Maintaining critical geospatial services for sustaining land management and rural communities

through Forest interdisciplinary teams and coordination/collaboration with local stakeholders2. Facilitating an effective and smooth transition to an Enterprise-wide geospatial architecture with

correlated staff training3. Supporting efforts to collect state-wide coverage and data collection for Lidar and leaf-off natural

color and color infrared (CIR) aerial photography.

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NASA IV&V Facility Educator Resource Center Agency Name: NASA IV&V Facility Educator Resource CenterContact Name: Todd Ensign ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 367-8438URL: http://erc.ivv.nasa.gov

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The NASA ERC provides free NASA resources and professional development for K-16 educators in WV on GPS, GIS, Remote Sensing, Surface Temperature and NASA's GLOBE Program Protocols.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?We are users of data, not stewards.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?We would like to partner with the statewide efforts to promote the use of the resources to K-16 educators.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We would like to partner with the statewide efforts to promote the use of the resources to K-16 educators.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We work closely with teachers in almost every county in WV, most higher education colleges/universities, and many state programs such as WV View.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Collaborated with WVDE, WVU, WV GIS Tech Center, and WV View to offer a teacher institute

on ArcGIS 10.2. Provided trainings to teachers on mapping GLOBE environmental data using GIS.3. Provided numerous GPS trainings to teachers and state entities (such as the WV Fire Academy).

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Host ArcGIS trainings at our facility in Fairmont.2. Increase partnerships to provide GIS resources for Educators.3. Highlight NASA remote sensing resources that can be used in the classroom.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Data access2. Computing resources at schools3. Bandwidth at schools

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National Park ServiceAgency Name: National Park Service, New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation AreaContact Name: Andrew Steel ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 465-6556URL: http://www.nps.gov/gis/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Since 1995, the focus of GIS in the National Park Service has been on cartographic data acquisition for parks, GIS training, and technical and administrative support for the growing number of GIS and GPS operations in parks. More than 250 NPS units use GIS today. GIS applications range from studies of effects on parks by visitors to assistance with the re-creation of historic battlefield landscapes.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Data relating to or within the administrative boundaries of a National Park Service unit.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We have been and will be purchasing and generating datasets and aerial photography products that may be of use to people within the state of WV. We will gladly share any public data with our fellow GIS professionals. We also use much of the data that is generated by the WV GIS community in our daily operations

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past year:Produced all geospatial data and mapping needed for work on 13 miles of new trail constructed by Volunteer Boy Scouts. Data collection and mapping all phases including compliance, layout, pre-construction and progress during construction.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue support of the New River Gorge National River Planning projects.

2. Assist with all geospatial data and mapping needed for work on trail projects to be completed by Volunteer Boy Scouts. Data collection and mapping all phases including compliance, layout, pre-construction and progress during construction.

3. Continue to build local partnership relations and data sharing opportunities.

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Natural Resources Conservation Service — Soil Survey Office Agency Name: USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Major Land Resource Area Region 13 (MO-13), Soil Survey OfficeContact Name: Wendy J. Noll ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 284-7590; URL: http://www.wv.nrcs.usda.gov

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Our goal is to advance technology in a way that helps NRCS MO-13 Soil Survey Staffs meet their goals as efficiently as possible. To accomplish this, our team is involved in many aspects of GIS including: geodata analysis techniques, training, support, and new technology, when available. The entire states of Delaware and Maryland, and portions of Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are located within MO-13.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?We are the primary data stewards for the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database, Web Soil Survey and Natural Resource Inventory (NRI)

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? The USDA - NRCS Soil Survey Division provides the digital and tabular soil survey data for the United States of America

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The availability of the Soil Survey data to the State of WV, including both private and public sectors, is important. Soil data provides a basic set of data and interpretations for the geospatial community of West Virginia.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: USDA-NRCS-MO-13 partners with the US Forest Service and the West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station. We provide updated soil data and enhanced interpretations for the USFS Monongahela National Forest. We work with WVU to develop digital mapping techniques for use by the Soil Survey Program.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Completion of the digital Soil Survey for the New River Gorge and Associated Recreation Areas

for the National Park Service.2. Provided GIS QA/QC for a number of Soil Survey project throughout the MO-13 Region.3. Provided GIS Technical Support to the other NRCS Functional Disciplines throughout WV.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Provide GIS support for the development of Environmental Site Descriptions (ESD) in

designated areas of West Virginia.2. Provide training opportunities to maintain / enhance the GIS skills of soil survey staff members

and partners.3. Provide GIS QA/QC for all MLRA Soil Survey projects throughout the MO-13 Region, in

particular, the SDJR (Harmonization) initiative.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Software and hardware compliance with in the guidelines of the Agency.2. Developing / maintaining GIS technical proficiency of staff members.3. Competition for resources (i.e. Agency priorities vs. budget constraints).

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Huntington DistrictAgency Name: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington DistrictContact Name: Michael Koon ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 399-5825URL: http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:We are chartered to coordinate facilities, infrastructure and environmental use of Computer Aided Design and Drafting and Geographic Information Systems (CADD/GIS) activities within the Department of Defense (DOD) and with other participating governmental (federal, state and local) agencies, and the private sector. This also includes directing specific application developments, promoting communications, developing and promoting standards, furnishing technical advice, interfacing with professional organizations and industry, evaluating technological developments, and recommending necessary CADD/GIS policy to insure the maximum benefits are received from these technologies. Our geographic extent includes portions of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Kentucky.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Water resource related activities and features that support our missions of Flood Damage Reduction, Navigation of the Inland Waterway system and Environmental Restoration.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Water resource related activities and features that support our missions of Flood Damage Reduction, Navigation of the Inland Waterway system and Environmental Restoration.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We will strive to make as much of our data publicly available as regulations in the current environment will allow.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We have been active in distribution of and support for USACE Mapping and derived products specifically related to Bluestone Dam Safety Assurance.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completion of Bluestone and downstream LiDAR mapping and derivative products2. Conversion of 13,000 hardcopy mapping sheets to digital GeoTiff format3. Spatially enabling ProjectWise Document Management System to allow spatial queries on

Engineering documents and integration with ArcGIS

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue enterprise GIS effort with mission integration.2. To gather and manage geospatial data for the basins in our district, with emphasis on areas where

we will initiate or complete recon or feasibility studies.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Pittsburgh District (2006)Agency Name: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh DistrictContact Name: Melissa J. Aguglia ([email protected])Contact Phone: (412) 395-7409URL: http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/

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Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The mapping extent for West Virginia is the Monongahela River Drainage Basin including the Tygart and West Fork Rivers and the Upper Ohio River Drainage Basin (from Hannibal locks and dam northward).

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Navigation information on the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers; regulatory information for all navigable waterways within our District; information within the boundaries of our reservoirs (Tygart and Stonewall Jackson Lakes for WV) along with data for projects authorized by Congress (flood control, environmental restoration, etc.).

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Communication and willingness to share are the keys.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past year:In conjunction with FEMA, began digital conversion of FIRM maps for four West Virginia counties: Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, and Harrison. Top geospatial goals for the coming year:Continued development of DFIRM flood maps.

U.S. Census Bureau — Geography DivisionAgency Name: U.S. Census Bureau Contact Name: Anne Jeffers, Philadelphia Regional Office ([email protected])Contact Phone: (215) 717-1830URL: http://www.census.gov

Your organization's GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Geography Division plans, coordinates, and administers all geographic and cartographic activities needed to facilitate the Census Bureau's statistical programs throughout the United States and its territories. Additionally, the Geography Division manages Census Bureau programs that continuously update the features, boundaries, and other geographic entities in the TIGER database and the Master Address File (MAF)

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?The Census Bureau is responsible for providing the road and governmental unit boundary layers for The National Map.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The Census Bureau provides TIGER Line/Shapefiles by county, for the entire U.S. These files were released in December 2011.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?By participating in the annual Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) communities can update their boundaries to reflect changes. Accurate maps, addresses and boundaries help make census data more accurate.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:

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The US Census Bureau has begun the Geographic Support System (GSS) Initiative, with the goal of improving address coverage, collecting ongoing address and spatial data, and enhanced quality assessment and measurement. This partnership program with all levels of government will lead to a more accurate and efficient 2020 Census.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Announced the Geographic Support System Initiative.2. Collected annual Boundary and Annexation Survey.3. Released new public version of TIGER in shapefile format.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Begin data exchange for the Geographic Support System initiative.

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U.S. Geological Survey — National Geospatial Program Office Agency Name: U.S. Geological Survey – Geography DisciplineContact Name: Craig Neidig, Geospatial Liaison to West Virginia ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 347-5130 x 237URL: http://www.usgs.gov

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The National Geospatial Program provides leadership for USGS geospatial coordination, production and service activities. The Program engages partners to develop standards and produce consistent and accurate data through its Geospatial Liaison Network. Operational support is provided by the National Geospatial Technical Operations Center. These and other Program activities that are essential to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) are managed as a unified portfolio that benefits geospatial information users throughout the Nation.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? Primary: Elevation (NED), water (NHD), geographic name (GNIS); secondary: orthoimagery, land cover.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Geospatial products and services include: the National Map viewer, US Topo, Historic Topographic Maps, the National Atlas, USGS store, etc; for more information go to http://nationalmap.gov/

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Participate in cooperative partnership activities and funding opportunities; national geospatial programmatic guidance; access to geospatial technical services and products.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Funding support to WV Technical Center for GNIS and NHD maintenance and stewardship; representation on WV GIS Steering Committee, WV Association of Geospatial Professionals, and WV Geographic Alliance (K-12 education).

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. WV participation in the National Enhanced Elevation Assessment (NEEA) to define new national

elevation strategy.2. Funding support to WV Technical Center for GNIS and NHD maintenance and stewardship.3. Release of US Topo and Historic Topographic Map geopdf products for WV.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Participate and contribute funding to a statewide high-resolution orthoimagery project..2. Participate and contribute funding to further completion of a statewide high-resolution elevation

(lidar) project.3. Develop next steps for NHD maintenance and stewardship in WV; integration with NWIS,

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Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Continuation of USGS programmatic funding support for cooperative projects that benefit the

state and federal agencies.2. Continuation of USGS technical support staff and programs to assist in development and

maintenance of critical data sets.3. Ongoing development, integration, and maintenance of local (high) resolution data sets with

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U.S. Geological Survey — Water Resources Division (2008)Agency Name: U.S. Geological Survey – Water Resources Division (WRD)Contact Name: Katherine Paybins ([email protected])URL: http://wv.usgs.gov/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Water Resources Division is responsible for water science research for the state of West Virginia and its waterways and groundwater; and for geospatial support for these projects.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?This division is responsible for surface water measurements sites in ground water measurement sites in West Virginia. The USGS WV Water Science Center is but one branch of the USGS, and these notes pertain to just the USGS WSC for WV.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The Water Resources Division engages in both FEMA flood mapping and basin characteristics generation for sites in and around West Virginia.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?FEMA flood maps are being digitized for distribution as geospatial data layers, and basin characteristics for selected waterways in West Virginia provide a basis for flood and lowflow equations for unregulated streams in. Basin boundaries are also generated for synoptic surface water sites and many historic and current surface water sites.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The Water Resources Division cooperates with FEMA, WVDOH, and WVDEP on DFIRM mapping, WV Homeland Security low flow and flood frequency studies, and surface water stream gauging at 150 sites statewide, respectively. Additionally, this division engages in water quality studies and keeps about 15 groundwater wells under observation.

FEMA’s involvement in DFIRM mapping and WVDOH and WVDEP, WV Homeland Security- low flow and flood frequency studies; surface water stream gauging at about 150 sites statewide, and about 15 groundwater wells under observation.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Putnam County DFIRM mapping.

2. Basin Characteristics for surface water sites in and near West Virginia.3. Base-flow yields of watersheds in the Jefferson County area.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Finish 4 DFIRMS and FIS reports for Lincoln, Boone, Clay, and Roane counties.2. Update the geospatial coverage of surface water sites for WV.

3. Perform an analysis of elevation data resolution using 3 to 4 datasets currently available for all or parts of WV.

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Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Organizational funding 2. Technological- computer hardware needs may or may not be met due to item # 1

3. Technical- receiving and/or generating metadata for geospatial products from cooperators

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State Historic Preservation OfficeAgency Name: State Historic Preservation OfficeContact Name: Tami Koontz ([email protected]) Contact Phone: (304) 558-0240 ext. 140URL: http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/shpoindex.aspx

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographical extent for digital mapping:The mission of the Division of Culture and History's State Historic Preservation Office is to encourage, inform, support, and participate in the efforts of the people of West Virginia to identify, recognize, preserve and protect West Virginia's prehistoric and historic structures, objects and sites. The purpose of our Internet-based geographic information system is to make the State’s historic resource information available to the public to promote historic preservation awareness and to improve the quality of development decisions throughout the State. The system will also allow SHPO to comply with the Section 106 amendment which requires that federally funded projects must be reviewed to ensure that no historic sites are impacted

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The SHPO maintains a digital inventory of historic architectural sites, National Register sites, Civil War sites, archaeological sites and surveys.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? Public online spatial data and associated scanned documents for historic architectural and National Register sites. Civil War, archaeological sites and archaeological surveys data are available with prior approval.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Helps to educate and promote protection of our historic cultural resources, economic development, tourism, Section 106 process and research.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Our office has contracted with WV GIS Technical Center to develop our webGIS and house our data. We've also received grants from the Department of Transportation and a legislative appropriation to scan our inventory forms and reports as well as update and maintain our system.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Ready to launch Phase III of our online GIS2. 85% of inventory forms and survey reports scanned into a digital format3. Civil War spatial layer completed

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Complete scanning of inventory forms and survey reports.2. Develop GPS data acquisition program.3. Add GIS Technician position to staff.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. In-house debates over who get access to specific spatial data layers.2. Security of digital archaeological information.3. Data accuracy.

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WV Army National GuardAgency Name: WV Army National GuardContact Name: Tom Martin ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 545-1281URL: http://www.wv.ngb.army.mil/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Use GIS to track real property, help in master planning, provide insight to Law enforcement, visualize environmental issues and provide support to the citizens of WV during times of emergency. Typically these priorities are near to and within the border of WV.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?All Real property owned by the WV National Guard.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The WVCOP is a web portal enabling real-time situational awareness via the viewing of environment conditions, weather, domestic operations (DOMOPS), critical infrastructure, agency and social feeds all on the same map concurrently. The Flex application includes geoprocessing (routing, spatial querying etc.) and custom made DOMOPS tools that aid in the visualization, reporting and decision making processes. It has been designed to be accessed remotely from multiple locations by users regardless of their GIS experience and available equipment, ultimately providing a venue to report and archive information from any locale with an internet connection.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Many of the projects are not for public viewing; however, Armory datasets have been provided to the GISTC in the past. The public in general may benefit from more immediate help in a natural disaster, due to the awareness the WVCOP provides to the National Guard.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: The WVCOP brings the efforts of the WVARNG, WVDOT and WV DHSEM together and consumes resources from the WV Board of Education, USGS, NOAA and various social media with more to come in the future.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Implementation of the WVCOP. 2. Provided site analysis to build the newest of our state's armories. 3. Provided support in several emergency operations.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Stand up ArcServer for an enterprise GIS.2. Gain more collaboration for the WVCOP. 3. Integrate more WVNG divisions into the enterprise GIS for maximum economic return.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Firewalls/security.2. Lack of GIS staff.3. Lack of continuity/enterprise GIS.

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WV Department of Agriculture — Plant Industries Division

Agency Name: West Virginia Department of Agriculture, Plant Industries DivisionContact Name: Shawn McCauley ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 558-2212URL: http://www.wvagriculture.org/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:WVDA does not have a GIS mission statement.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?WVDA-PID is responsible for mapping and maintaining data related to insects and forest diseases. These activities include mapping insect populations (i.e. gypsy moth trapping data) and mapping the extent of forest diseases. We also maintain information related to damaged caused by forest insects and diseases.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The data collected through these programs enables the WVDA-PID to take proactive steps to ensure the health of WV forests. Much of this data is made available to the USDA-FS for tracking national trends in threats to forest resources.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Collected data on a variety of insects and forest diseases. Specifically, we identified the location

of gypsy moth populations and mapped the extent of hemlock woolly adelgid in the forests of WV.

2. Mapped damaged caused by insects and diseases to determine the overall health of WV forests. 3. Began creating statewide campground risk assessment maps to identify state campgrounds at high

risk for various forest pests and diseases by visitors from out of state areas.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year: 1. Expand the GIS involvement for the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Cooperative Pilot Suppression

Program.2. Continue collecting data for revisions to the West Virginia Forest Resource Assessment and

Strategy – Forest Health Section.3. Maintain work on insect and forest disease programs.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. ESRI Licenses and upgrade costs.2. Managing staff with various versions of ArcView software due to cost of upgrading.3. Costs of upgrading survey data collecting technology for a large staff.

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WV Department of Education Organization Name: West Virginia Department of EducationContact Name: Erika Klose ([email protected])URL: http://wvde.state.wv.us/socialstudies/gis.html

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The mission of the WVDE is to distribute ESRI's ARCGIS Desktop to WV teachers and to train those teachers in the use of GIS in the classroom.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? We provide ESRI's ARCGIS 10 Desktop to WV teachers.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The statewide geospatial community could act as "geomentors" to WV teachers and could provide data and mapping opportunities for teachers and schools.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The WVDE works cooperatively with the West Virginia GIS Technical Center and the NASA IV&V Facility in training teachers in our advanced ARCGIS camps for WV teachers.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Training over 250 teachers in introductory GIS classes. 2. Training over 100 teachers in advanced GIS classes.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Incorporating GIS in the SASS (Science, Arts, and Social Studies) Institute.2. Training additional teachers in introductory GIS classes.3. Providing resources for WV teachers to incorporate geospatial activities and

projects in their classrooms.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Creating partnerships with WV professionals and WV teachers.

WV Department of Environmental ProtectionOrganization Name: West Virginia Department of Environmental ProtectionContact Name: Larry Evans, Manager, TAGIS/ITO ([email protected])URL: http://gis.wvdep.org & http://gisonline.wvdep.org

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Protecting a health environment. Statewide.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?

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As in the past we continue to development and maintain West Virginia’s permitted resource extraction and environmentally related datasets. New this year are in-house produced watershed-sized mosaics created from National Geospatial Intelligence Agency provided WorldView and GeoEye panchromatic and multispectral high resolution imagery. Receipt this year of leaf off digital imagery of 1 foot or better resolution and LiDAR datasets from cooperating federal and county governmental partners has allowed the beginning of production of aggregated data with the goal of continuous coverage of the entire State.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? See http://tagis.dep.wv.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services and http://gisonline.dep.wv.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We provide geoservices that allow professions from outside WVDEP to attach to Agency data via ArcGIS desktop or ArcGIS server-based applications. We are aggregating both LiDAR and high resolution imagery (1' pixel or more resolute) utilizing data we produce in-house and data shared with us by other like-minded partners with the goal of producing geoservices that all professionals can utilize in the Internet.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Federal and State partners in Appalachian coal mine permitting have a shared interest in collaborating and leveraging resources to develop a collective geospatial information system that will enhance the ability of each agency to make more informed and expedited decisions under their respective programs. Participating federal Agencies include Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service and Army Corps of Engineers. State entities partnering include WVDEP, Virginia Department of Mines Mineral and Energy, and Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals. The goal of this project is to grow this collective geospatial information system to national in scale with additional coal producing States added as time and resources allow. WVDEP and WVU's Natural Resources Analysis Center continued our agreement working together to collect LiDAR and produce derived data products from it that will cover approximately 30% of West Virginia. Providing .LAS files from these LiDAR missions, WVDEP continued our partnership with West Virginia View jointly working toward a common goal of making these LiDAR data files available for public download.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. In-house production of LiDAR derived data products for multi-county watersheds

in southern West Virginia. 2. Aggregation of higher resolution LiDAR derived data into a WVSAMB hillshade

and providing access via an in-house developed application to the public3. Making significant progress in modernizing of the State's Abandoned Mine Lands

dataset.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:

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1. Complete in-house production of LiDAR derived data products for ~ 30% of West Virginia's surface acreage.

2. Public exposing of more LiDAR derived data products via applications and geoservices

3. Completing modernizing of the State's Abandoned Mine Lands dataset.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Insufficient availability of outside geoservices we can utilize to access mission

critical ancillary data for our Divisions/Offices/Programs.2. No leaf off statewide imagery with a resolution of 1' or better in either natural color

or CIR and no in program in place to insure anything better than NAIP.3. Insufficient internal staffing for in-house design, construction and maintenance of

geospatial applications thereby insuring best return on investment (RoI).

WV Department of Health and Human Resources, Environmental Engineering Division, Source Water Assessment and Wellhead Protection ProgramAgency Name: West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, Office of Environmental Health Services, Environmental Engineering Division, Source Water Assessment and Wellhead Protection ProgramContact Name: James Mitchell ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 356-4315 x 4315URL: http://www.wvdhhr.org/oehs/eed/swap/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping: The agency’s goal is to promote the West Virginia Source Water Assessment and Wellhead Protection Program and protect public drinking water sources in West Virginia by using GIS.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? The division is responsible for public water systems, public drinking water sources, and source water protection areas.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?GIS data layers are available to other state agencies as well as federal agencies by request only. The general public will have limited access to our data layers through a GIS enabled WWW interface.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We provide geographic data of public water systems, sources, and potential contaminant sources for the state of West Virginia, to help protect public health and enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: We cooperate with many federal and state agencies as well as private sector companies to develop new products and services to ensure safe drinking water.

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Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year: 1. Enhanced spatial and attribute accuracy of our GIS data layers.2. Revised our Source Water Protection data model.3. Revised and updated the West Virginia Source Water Assessment and Wellhead Protection

Program WWW-GIS Service in conjunction with West Virginia GIS Technical Center.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year: 1. Promote more use of GIS within our Office and Bureau.2. Continue to improve the West Virginia Source Water Assessment and Wellhead Protection

Program 3. Research and implement a new GPS data collection system.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Promote GIS within our agency.2. Limited funding.3. Communication within our agency.WV Department of Health and Human Resources — Health Care Authority (2008)Agency Name: WV Department of Health and Human Resources – Health Care AuthorityContact Name: Phillip Meadows ([email protected])Contact Phone: Telephone: (304) 558-7000 ext. 209 URL: http://www.hcawv.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Health Care Authority generally has two primary purposes: to constrain the rising cost of health care and to assure reasonable access to necessary health services. GIS is used to support the spatial analysis of these issues.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The Authority’s hospital discharge data set contains geographic data pertaining to patient residence and care location. The Health Care Authority compiles geographic information using primary and secondary data on facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, rural health centers, etc., from Health Care Authority surveys and official data sources, such as the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification and health care professional licensing boards.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The Health Care Authority has completed maps that show 30 minute drive time to and from Facilities and Services, 25/10 Hospital Discharges and form partnerships with other agencies to collaborate on GIS projects that are beneficial to their agency and our agency.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The Health Care Authority studies the adequacy of the supply and distribution of health care facilities and services.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The Authority participates and cooperates with state and local agencies and education and research institutions for GIS projects and to obtain data sources for GIS projects. State agencies include WV

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Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification, WV Division of Primary Care, and the WV Perinatal Partnership. The primary local agency si the WV Primary Care Association, and the WVGIS Technical Center falls under education and research institutions

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. 30 Minute Drive Times from Facilities or Services to analyze access to healthcare throughout

West Virginia.

2. Using GIS to analyze and develop health care policy standards.3. Collaborate with the WV GIS Technical Center on the Mass Evacuation Project to provide data

on hospitals and nursing homes.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Develop hospital specific 25-10 Service Areas for use with Certificate of Need Standards.

2. Develop web based GIS system to showcase different types of health care data sets so that the public and others may develop GIS analyses and maps.

3. Collaborate with other divisions within the agency to apply GIS to the development of additional health care policy.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Starting up our own web-enabled service.

2. Making sure data that is collected is up to date and accurate.3. Being able to automate the data into GIS software instead of having to manually update database

every time there is an update with the data.

WV Department of Tax and Revenue — Property Tax Division Agency Name: WV Property Tax DivisionContact Names: Pat White ([email protected]),

Christopher Farmer ([email protected])Contact Phone: Telephone: (304) 558-3940

Your agency's GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Create, integrate, and inventory spatial location data for properties and other coal related entity types and appraise coal bearing properties for ad valorem property tax purposes in adherence to state law.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? Digital spatial location references based on geo spatial mapping level primarily, with coal geological, economical, and quality layers for ad valorem tax use only.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Benefits include more accurate taxation distribution based on scientifically supported data, current and future data sharing agreements between state and local government and private industry, future analysis and planning for state government projects and services and many other applications.

The geospatial community could assist the project by working with county government and private industry convincing others of the benefits of data sharing ensuring confidential data and an ownership

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rights will be respected. Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) are available to assist in sharing documentation between local and state government, providing acceptable requirements and provisions for all involved parties. Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Automation of common spatial and non-spatial tasks to save man hours and increase accuracy.2. Created an auditing system to search for inconsistencies in producing coal reporting in various

areas.3. Started major efforts to with state and local government to refine mapping standards and quality

control procedures for cadastral mapping. Top 4 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Creation of methodology to adjust spatial reference key to account for mapping insets for match

with current tax map index dataset. 2. Enhancing standards for Tax Surface Map Conversion by releasing a Request for Quote (RFQ) to

continue individual county-level growth of GIS technology across the state. 3. Create joint project with WVGES for mining data extraction to decrease turn round time mining

polygon updates.4. Refine methodology for Continuous Property Analysis for geo economic research.

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WV Department of Transportation Agency Name: WV Department of TransportationContact Name: Hussein Elkhansa ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 558-2659URL: http://www.wvdot.com/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT)'s Geospatial Transportation Information (GTI) Section is commissioned to improve customer service to the citizens of West Virginia by supplying the latest geospatial transportation information. WVDOT is committed to providing geospatial transportation services to the public as well as the WVDOT community in a timely manner. WVDOT also cooperates with federal and other state transportation entities nationwide for digital mapping.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?WVDOT is responsible for managing geospatial transportation data concerning transportation assets, roads, and trails.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?1. Web-based mapping applications and downloadable transportation GIS data in shapefile format

and highway maps in PDF format; 2. GIS services (e.g. map services) consumable by the public using standard geospatial software;3. Geospatial services (data collection, mapping, application development, training, etc.) available

to the WVDOT community.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The statewide geospatial community can participate in or benefit from the development of West Virginia roadway network and other transportation GIS data.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:WVDOT has significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions. Examples include:1. WVDOT has been playing an active role in the American Association of State Highway and

Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The 2010 AASHTO GIS-T Symposium was hosted by WVDOT in Charleston, West Virginia. Currently two WVDOT employees sit on its committees.

2. WVDOT has been developing a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network by cooperating with organizations at various levels such as USCOE, NRAO, WVDNR, WVDEP, WVRJA, WVU, MU, FSU, SCTC, EWVTC, counties (Marshall, Braxton, and Wirt), and schools, as well as partnering with surrounding states, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.

3. Since 2010 WVDOT has been providing hardware, software, and technical support to the West Virginia National Guard to develop a comprehensive enterprise solution for emergency management.

4. WVDOT cooperates with the Rahall Transportation Institute (RTI) offering four level classes in GIS and GPS. By the end of 2011 over 450 WVDOT employees received the training.

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Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. West Virginia CORS Network: Ongoing cooperative efforts with various organizations have

produced a CORS network that covers almost the entire state of West Virginia. As of now, there are 28 CORS stations up and running, supporting 221 subscriptions, 146 organizations, and 212 users.

2. Enterprise GIS Framework: In 2010 WVDOT and Esri professional services worked together and drafted an Enterprise GIS Roadmap. Per the blueprint, WVDOT successfully improved its enterprise GIS framework and seamlessly integrated it into WVDOT’s existing enterprise information system infrastructure. The enterprise GIS includes separate production and testing/staging environments, independent editing and publication GIS databases, disparate statewide GIS databases, and client side applications. The effort was recognized by Esri at its 2011 International User Conference with a Special Achievement in GIS Award.

3. Fleet Management System: Since 2010 WVDOT started managing its vehicle fleet using a state-of-the-art technology: Fleet Management System. The System enables managers and supervisors to make real-time intelligent decisions to optimize the worker performance and fleet management, therefore lowering fuel costs and increasing efficiency and productivity. There are over 450 vehicles in the System. In later 2011 WVDOT completed a statewide equipment upgrade. The next phase is to schedule and complete training for all associated personnel.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. New Transportation GIS Data Model: As part of the initiatives in its Roadmap WVDOT is

cooperating with Esri to reinvent its transportation GIS data model, a core foundation in its enterprise GIS. The new model accommodates a statewide road centerline dataset, uses mile log post as the main linear referencing method, and divides linear road centerline features at road intersections, allowing advanced road network analysis such as routing. A logical model was completed in August 2011. The road centerline dataset is being cleaned up. The project is expected to finish by the end of 2012.

2. Highway Map Reproduction: WVDOT is reproducing highway maps in a GIS environment to replace the existing ones created in MicroStation years ago. The new maps will meet industrial standards, contain standardized symbology and style sheets, and be lively linked to WVDOT GIS databases, enabling end users to access up-to-date highway data that WVDOT maintains. The new state and county highway maps are expected to be available by the end of 2012.

3. WVDOT GIS Coordinator Network: WVDOT is establishing an Agency wide GIS coordinator network, including one GIS coordinator at its headquarters and ten district level GIS analysts. The Network is to promote geospatial technology across the Agency and facilitate WVDOT projects such as asset management, part of the ongoing WVDOT Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) initiative. Major progress that WVDOT has made includes the successful employment of the GIS coordinator and one GIS analyst, a statewide disparate GIS database network in place, and the ongoing first asset data collection of the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) on WVDOT right-of-ways.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Getting up-to-date data from external data stewards timely is the biggest challenge. WVDOT

relies heavily on geospatial data published by other organizations to perform geospatial analysis. The accuracy and currency of outside data is a key to the success of WVDOT geospatial function.

2. Another challenge that WVDOT faces is to employ geospatial professionals with certain skills, especially in application development.

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Contact Name: Carl Gunnoe ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 957-2021URL: http://www.wvdo.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:WVDEV Office uses GIS primarily for custom-made maps for development office projects, and for public, academic, and other state agencies requests. The Development office works in partnership with local development authorities, real estate brokers, and private citizens to maintain a complete listing of available industrial sites, and buildings for the entire State through a continuously updated ArcGIS Geodatabase. The Development Office has approximately 418 properties, organized into four tables: sites, businesss and industrial parks, industrial buildings and office buildings. Community Information Databases: The Development Office is interested in compiling community information for prospective clients. This information, which often contains a geographic component based upon different scales (city, county, local market areas, and state), includes demographics, labor market areas, utilities, health care, recreation, public safety, climate, and education.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Listing of available industrial buildings, sites, business and industrial parks and office buildings (call centers and back office).

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Maps of census data including population, income, education, etc, as well as labor force data. We also map industrial resources for both the state and for the nation.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Participate by providing up to date infrastructure maps for electricity, gas, water, sewer, telecommunications fiber network lines. Benefit by having access to economic development properties.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The West Virginia Office has completed a new web site that is GIS intensive. Developed by Terradon, the site will feature mappable labor sheds for each of the state's counties.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Identified labor sheds for each WV County, with GIS as a primary tool used in the process.2. Used GIS to locate industrial property for prospects

Top geospatial goal for the coming year:1. Purchase 2 ArcView 10.0 licenses and have 2 staff members receive introductory training.2. Being able to access shapefiles for tax parcels and infrastructure for each county. 3. Create GIS Server for use with ESRI ArcGIS App on the IPAD.

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Learning the intermediate and advanced GIS mapping techniques. 2. Being able to have access to shapefiles for tax parcels and infrastructure for each county.

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Contact Phone: (304) 293-0056URL: http://www.wvforestry.com

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Use geospatial technology to assist in the management and delivery of land management activities for the various programs the DOF administers statewide to better serve the public.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The DOF is a data steward for multiple DOF Program Area accomplishments such as wildfire occurrence, logging notifications and inspections, land owner assistance with the Forest Stewardship and Forest Legacy Programs, State Forest management, the Forest Products industry, and Chesapeake Bay conservation initiatives such as riparian tree plantings and urban forestry activities.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Generally all data and services are for internal or other state agency use, but most data can be available by request in many formats.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The geospatial community can both participate and benefit in DOF geospatial activities by becoming stakeholders in the numerous land management activities, and conservation projects being implemented statewide.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We have cooperative efforts with many federal , state and local agencies, such as the: USDA Forest Service, Monongahela National Forest; US Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy; WV Division of Natural Resources; WV Department of Environmental Protection; WV Geological Survey and Economic Development; WV Tax Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency; WV Forestry Association, County Assessors offices, WV Tree Farm Association, WVU College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, WV Development Office, WV Office of Energy, US Army Corps of Engineers, and many others.

Top geospatial accomplishment in the past two years:1. Completion of the federally mandated Statewide Forest Resource Assessment, which required

GIS analysis.2. Establishment of priority areas using GIS, for DOF programs which are used to measure progress

and drive annual agency work planning.3. Establishment of a DOF Map User Group with regualr meetings to share GIS technology and

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Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Establish data sharing agreements for counties with geospatial parcel data.2. Complete a technical and functional geospatial needs assessment for DOF programs3. Continue DOF Map User Group meetings to allow more DOF staff access to the power of

geospatial technology.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Cost associated with an enterprise wide GIS.2. Lack of available data such as tax parcel data3. DOF staff understanding and use potential for GIS.

WV Division of Homeland Security & Emergency ManagementAgency Name: WV Division of Homeland Security & Emergency ManagementContact Name Jennings Starcher ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 558-5380URL: http://www.wvdhsem.gov/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:WVDHSEM provides emergency management and homeland security mapping for critical-infrastructure documentation, response planning, statewide addressing and mapping and mitigation related to disaster response and counter-terrorism planning.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?WVDHSEM maintains emergency management and homeland security data that includes federal, state, and local critical infrastructure necessary for sustaining the health, safety, and welfare of West Virginia's citizens.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?WVDHSEM performs data capture and database production for protected critical infrastructure and information, as well as mapping services for planning purposes and analysis of asset vulnerability and redundancy.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? WVDHSEM has already formed strong partnerships and data exchange agreements with many agencies in Federal, state, and local governments to encourage data currency, data exchange, and safeguard protected critical infrastructure information from un-authorized access.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:WVDHSEM is currently working with many agencies at all levels, to include US Geological Survey and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. WV DHSEM is also partnered with West Virginia University, Marshall University, WV Office of GIS Coordination, WV Department of Transportation, WV Department of Environmental Protection and the WV Health Care Authority for the collection and exchange of data and mapping services. WVDHSEM also partners with the local 911 centers for the collection and exchange of data and mapping services relating to the statewide addressing and mapping project.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:

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1. Partnership with the 911 centers for 911 mapping critical to emergency response.2. Partnership with the WV Broadband Mapping Program for mapping of community anchor

institutions.3. Partnership with the US Corp of Engineers for mapping of critical infrastructure data relating to

the Bluestone Dam Project.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue the partnership with 911 centers for updated geospatial data integration & management.2. Continue data enhancements and maintenance for critical infrastructure GIS data.3. Continue working with all of our partners on the collection and exchange of data and mapping

services.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Maintaining the protected critical infrastructure information for the entire state for data currency.2. Maintaining 911 coordination efforts for effective 911 mapping in all 55 counties of the state.3. Planning and coordination for emergency management operations that involve mass evacuation

and/or detention.

WV Division of Natural ResourcesAgency Name: WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources SectionContact Name: Walter S. Kordek ([email protected])Phone: (304) 637-0245Web URL: http://www.wvdnr.gov

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Utilize geospatial technologies to improve the State of West Virginia’s natural resource management decisions by producing quality geographic information, applications and analyses.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Game and Non-game animals, rare species and communities, Public Land managed by WVDNR.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Significant cooperation with USEPA, US Forest Service, NRCS, USFWS WVDEP, The Freshwater Institute, NatureServe, The Nature Conservancy & WVU

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. With WVU, NRCS, USFW the development of a web based “Programmatic Consultation Tool”

to guide NRCS practice implementation while considering impacts to federally listed rare species2. With WVU, initiation of development of a process to assess function and provision of ecological

services by wetlands on a landscape level3. With WVU and the Freshwater Institute continuing development of a tool to identify

Conservation Focus Areas using known and modeled species, communities and landscape features

Top geospatial goal for the coming year:1. Replace our GIS Analyst.

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Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Lack of staff2. Administrative difficulties in replacing staff

WV Geological and Economic SurveyAgency Name: WV Geological and Economic Survey Contact Names:

Coal: B. Mitch Blake ([email protected]) Oil and Gas: Mary C. Behling ([email protected]) STATEMAP: Michael Hohn ([email protected]) ESIC: Paul Liston ([email protected])

Contact Phone: (304) 594-2331URL: http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digitalmapping:The Geological Survey has a broad mandate to maintain information and expertise on all aspects of the geology of West Virginia. Our goal is to create new geologic information in a GIS format whenever applicable and convert archival information to GIS format whenever practical, and to make the information available to the user community via the web.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?Consistent with the broad mandate of the Survey, we are the primary steward of all geologic information for WV, much of which lends itself to geospatial representation. We are currently developing geospatial information for coal resources, oil and gas resources, and geological mapping; we are considering developing geospatial information for natural hazards.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Coal: We are creating GIS features representing coal bed extent, elevation, thickness, overburden depth, mined areas, and other features, funded by the state under the Coal Bed Mapping Project (CBMP). The Survey also hosts a site for downloading scans of maps of abandoned underground coal mines, in cooperation with the WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety, and Training.

Oil and gas: We maintain extensive well information including location, completion, stratigraphy, pays, and production data which are being migrated to the geospatial environment; scanned geophysical well logs are currently being associated with the well information.

Geologic maps: We create 7.5-minute quadrangle-based geologic maps for West Virginia as a cooperative project with the USGS.

Other: The Survey maintains an archive of historical maps and aerial photography, much of which is available digitally. Efforts are ongoing to scan archival data and convert the appropriate information to a geospatial format.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?We actively seek cooperative partnerships. Our data are used by tax officials, permit regulators, mine safety officials; people dealing with abandoned mine lands or abandoned oil or gas wells, planners and developers, economic forecasters and policy makers. It can also be used for emergency response,

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as well as coal and oil and gas exploration and development. The Survey’s data can also be used to conduct baseline geochemical surveys, identify historic landslides and assess potential landslide risk, locate and evaluate waste disposal sites, identify domestic and public water sources, and identify problems associated with replacement wetlands.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: National Park Service: Completing a 3-year mapping project to develop digital geological maps

for 14 quadrangles in southern WV; geologists from Concord College were included in the mapping project.

USGS: STATEMAP projects to develop digital geological maps of one or two quadrangles per year; continuing work on the National Coal Resources Data System.

NTIA: Working on a five-year Broadband Mapping Program, including mapping broadband services in the state, grants to regional planning councils for needs assessment and strategic planning, and other technical assistance grants for broadband education, training or application development.

Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and the U.S. Department of Energy: evaluating potential opportunities for carbon sequestration.

Arizona Geological Survey, via the American Association of State Geologists and the U.S. Department of Energy: a three-year project to develop data for a national geothermal energy database and mapping service.

WV Division of Energy: developing a website and mapping application for the WV Geothermal Energy Project.

Multi-state consortium with corporate partners: beginning a regional study of geology of the Utica Shale.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1.Digital geologic maps: two new STATEMAP quadrangles were geologically mapped, digitized, and

published as GIS packages; two of the three National Park Service multi-quad geologic maps were prepared, digitized, and submitted as GIS packages; legacy open file/USGS-authored geologic maps were digitized so that nearly all geologic maps are now in digital form; significant progress on the statewide Coalbed Mapping Project.

2.Upgrade to ArcGIS Server: obtained and installed ArcGIS Server; conversion of existing coal, oil and gas, and other applications into this platform have begun.

3.Interactive Mapping Applications: enhanced interactive mapping application for the Marcellus Shale, with improved and updated data for downloading; developed a new application for WV Geothermal Energy and a WV Earthquake Epicenters map; used geospatial mapping and map tools to evaluate geologic and mineral resource data.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Geologic mapping and the creation of digital map packages: two STATEMAP teams are mapping

two new quadrangles; staff are completing the National Park Service mapping project, the final map for this year’s mapping program is a 10-quad composite; staff are working on the geologic mapping for several quads the Elkins area, working toward the preparation of digital map products; the Coalbed Mapping Project is focusing on the older coals in the southern part of the state and coals in Barbour and Upshur counties.

2. Fully implement ArcGIS Server services (e.g., REST, SOAP, WMS, WFS) to the public via the ESRI Javascript and Flex API; become skilled in the design, development, delivery, and use of ArcGIS Server services.

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3. Redevelop and update other public WV interactive mapping applications using ArcGIS Server – e.g., Oil and Gas, Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Tight Gas Sands, Geothermal Energy; begin work on other projects involving subsurface mapping and evaluation, for the Utica Shale, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Brine Disposal, and CO2 Sequestration; conduct a resource assessment of the Marcellus Shale.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Complete the transformation of 90+ ArcIMS services to ArcGIS Server services and maps.

2. Create and maintain FGDC compliant metadata for all new spatial datasets (and the addition of such for older existing data sets); improve the organization and delivery of our geospatial data.

3. Keep up-to-date with technology, software, and hardware, and funding of same.

WV Geological and Economic Survey — Office of GIS CoordinationAgency Name: WV Geological and Economic Survey, Office of GIS Coordination Contact Name: Tony Simental Contact Phone: (304) 558-4218 ([email protected])URL: http://www.gis.wv.gov

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographical extent for digital mapping:The overall mission of the WVOGC is to implement a statewide GIS program that will develop a comprehensive, standardized, public domain, computerized digital cartographic database to be shared and used by government agencies, the general public, and the business community in order to modernize and improve decision-making processes at all levels for the benefit of West Virginia society. This implementation is being done in partnership with all State, federal, county, and municipal governments, and in cooperation with private industry. The WVOGC is responsible for the promotion and implementation of GIS activities that integrate all levels of data development and varying types of GIS applications within the State and coordinate various GIS initiatives and projects between State agencies and other government entities.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The main function of the OGC is to provide better statewide coordination in the development and use of geographic data and technology to support diverse stakeholders across the State. The WV Office of GIS Coordination works with state agencies, West Virginia’s GIS community, and regional and federal partners to provide and promote cooperative leadership, support, and innovative solutions for utilizing geospatial technology in serving the public good. The need for better statewide coordination in the development and use of geographic data and technology to support diverse stakeholders across the State, initially articulated in Executive order EO 4-93, was reaffirmed by Executive Order EO 10-10. Executive Order 10-10 created the Office of GIS Coordination (OGC) and better defines the duties and responsibilities of the State GIS Coordinator. The OGC is housed within the Department of Commerce and is headed by the State GIS Coordinator who provides operational and technical support to the WV GIS Policy Council. The current State GIS Coordinator is Mr. Tony Simental also chairs the State GIS Steering Committee.

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As the primary contact for GIS and remote sensing matters the OGC strives to ensure there are no duplication of efforts in GIS or remote sensing related projects.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The OGC promotes statewide geospatial coordination activities in all counties, and is an advocate for State, regional and local agencies in geospatial policy and initiatives.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Completed Statewide GIS Strategic Plan.2. Revised and updated Executive orders that relate to GIS.

3. Obtained $4.7 million in federal funding to map broadband coverage in the state.

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Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Implement Statewide Land Information System Business Plan2. Develop a Statewide LiDAR and Imagery Business Plan.

3. Development of Regional GIS Support Centers Business Plan.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Agencies understanding and complying with Executive Order 10-10.2. State and local agencies willingness to share data.

3. OGC small staff.

WV Legislative Redistricting Office (2008)Agency Name: WV Legislative Redistricting OfficeContact Name: Jo Vaughan ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 347-4826URL: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Districts/df.cfm

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Legislative Redistricting Office mission is to create and work with Legislative Members and citizens to form United States Congressional Districts, West Virginia state Senate Districts, and West Virginia state House of Delegates Districts in a non-partisan format for the Members of the state Legislature to vote on. These plans are formulated using Census data.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The Legislative Redistricting office is the steward for West Virginia's Congressional and State Legislative Districts and the geospatial data relevant to these entities.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The Redistricting office provides mapping of Congressional and State Legislative Districts. We also provide District specific data from the Census.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The Geospatial Community can participate in or benefit from any geospatial data sharing available. Working with Surveyors will be beneficial to boundary and annexation contracts and legislation.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The Redistricting office collects data from West Virginia Counties to digitize and forward on to the Federal Government for the TIGER maps. We are using the MAF/TIGER Partnership software from the United States Census Bureau and working with the Geography Department. This data consist of county political boundaries such as Magisterial and also their Voting Precinct boundaries. We also encourage the Counties to turn in their Boundary and Annexation Surveys (BAS) to the Federal government so we will have geographically accurate city and township boundaries on the TIGER maps.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Importing completed County data into our GIS software.

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2. For the ability to add ridge lines as Census Block boundaries.

3. Being able to use TerraServer USA toolbox in our software to define ridge lines in West Virginia from topographic maps.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Collect geospatial data from ALL 55 counties in West Virginia.2. Work with the Legislature in securing rules, regulations and/or code to direct cities and townships

to submit boundary and annexation data in accurate and usable formats for mapping.3. Complete the digitizing of County maps and forward to the Census Bureau.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Getting the Counties to comply with State Code in boundary realignments and forwarding to this

office.2. Working with the Legislature on the Boundary and Annexation issues of format and obligation.

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Education and Research 2012 Agency Roll Call

Concord University Agency Name: Concord UniversityContact Name: Tom Saladyga ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 384-6040URL: www.concord.edu

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Our goals vis-à-vis GIS are educational. We seek to train GIS professionals through our geography major which offers areas of emphasis in cartography and GIS.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The university provides funded research.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Our graduates work for public agencies and private firms that provide geospatial services.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Since 2008, Concord graduates continue to find employment in GIS.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. To expand our online GIS course offerings.2. To place more students in GIS internships.3. To develop a GIS certificate program.

Glenville State College Agency Name: Glenville State CollegeContact Name: Rico M. Gazal ([email protected]) and Rick Witte URL: http://glenville.edu/academics/land_resources.php

Your organization's GIS mission statement and geographical extent for digital mapping:Glenville State College offers two courses in GIS applications that undergraduate students take in both forestry and natural resources management programs. The courses provide basic GIS concepts and hands-on experience in field data collection to create a geographic information system for a local area in Gilmer and nearby counties. The Department of Land Resources also offers training / workshops on basic GIS for professionals in environmental, natural resources and the oil and gas industries.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?The spatial data that students collect as part of their class projects are stored in a database.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?We offer technical assistance to the public to promote GIS in all field of studies.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?

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Our program supplies the forestry, surveying, landman and natural resource industries with graduates who have GIS skills.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Our students collect spatial data in the field, and create maps of local areas. We coordinate with the Assessor's Office of Gilmer and other counties for student projects, and a field trip to several local agencies that utilize GIS is an important part of the curriculum. GIS specialists and scientists, and research and academic institutions are also invited to provide lectures and/or hands-on laboratory experience to our students. We were able to secure funding from NASA Space Grant for a project that applies GIS to understand extent, location and distribution of invasive plants in West Virginia. Results from this project were presented by students in local and national scientific meetings.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. More graduates are able to find employment in the GIS field2. Upgraded our computer lab with new computer units equipped with latest mapping software3. More students were involved in GIS-related research projects

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Provide GIS-related internship to students2. Increase enrollment in GIS courses3. Graduate students with GIS training

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Lack of professional development funds to train faculty and staff on GIS.2. Poor IT support services.

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Marshall University — College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE)Organization Name: Marshall University – College of Information Technology and EngineeringContact Names: Wael Zatar (CITE Dean), Jamie Wolfe (Course Instructor)Web URL: http://www.marshall.edu/cite/

What courses are offered in GIS and remote sensing at undergraduate and graduate levels? (1) Degree level and average number of students enrolled? Graduate / 12 Students(2) What are the areas of emphasis of these courses?

a. To provide an overview of the field of GIS, related technologies, and their usage b. To study the basic steps in designing, implementing, using, and maintaining a GIS. The steps

will include: data collection and validation, basic cartography and digital mapping, database development, integration of maps and databases, and analysis

c. To provide a managerial "hands-on" feel of implementing a GIS using a commercial GIS package

d. To study the resources required for implementing a GIS, and the strategic implications of using a GIS for an organization

List any centers associated with your unit that utilize geospatial technologies: CEGAS and RTI (Loosely connected to CITE)

What trends do you see in student education in GIS? Difficult to say, many of the students are new to GIS.

What employment trends are you experiencing for recent graduates in GIS? From what I can tell, students may be hired to non-GIS positions; however, having knowledge of GIS pushes them ahead of others that don’t.

What accomplishments has your unit seen in the past few years? Continued growth.

What do you see as the most significant geospatial education challenges that you are experiencing? There is always the balancing act of trying to teach concepts vs. how to run the software.

In what ways can the statewide geospatial community contribute, participate, and benefit from ongoing education and research efforts in your unit? I haven’t been involved much lately with the statewide effort, so I don’t have a good answer for this.

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Marshall University — Geography DepartmentOrganization Name: Marshall University – Geography DepartmentContact Names: James Leonard, Ph.D. ([email protected])Web URL: http://www.marshall.edu/geography/

What courses are offered in GIS and remote sensing at undergraduate and graduate levels? (1) Degree level and average number of students enrolled? Undergraduate majors 40, Graduate

majors 15; degrees BA, BS, MA, MS; our department also coordinates the undergraduate and graduate certificates in GIScience.

(2) What are the areas of emphasis of these courses? We provide undergraduate and graduate education in GIS and Remote Sensing. We coordinate with other departments and centers at Marshall University to offer a wide variety of experiences with different softwares, GIS/RS applications in diverse disciplines, and internships. Our students largely come from the tri-state area (WV, OH, KY), but we have a significant number from the other 47 states and abroad. Courses include: Basic GIS, Intro to Air Photos and Satellite Imagery, Intro GPS, Principles of GIS, GIS Vector Analysis, GIS Raster Analysis, Principles of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Enterprise GIS, GPS and Mobile Geospatial Technologies, Internship in GIS, Advanced GIS Projects.

List any centers associated with your unit that utilize geospatial technologies: None.

What trends do you see in student education in GIS? Students require more than the basics of how to use ArcGIS to obtain a better job than entry-level technician employment. Employers are seeking students who have experiences with Python, geodatabases, web mapping.

What employment trends are you experiencing for recent graduates in GIS? Our graduates have a good track record of employment in the GIS field even during difficult economic times due to high demand and relative shortage of skilled workers. Some graduates are taking part-time positions instead of full-time.

What accomplishments has your unit seen in the past few years? More GIS courses, a new advanced GIS certificate at the graduate level, better links with external entities for student internships and advice about our programs. We have contracted with WV Department of Environmental Protection to convert paper mine maps to geodatabase format.

What do you see as the most significant geospatial education challenges that you are experiencing? Students often lack maturity and broad educational skills such as critical thinking and writing. The technology changes so rapidly that we are challenged to update our curriculum.

In what ways can the statewide geospatial community contribute, participate, and benefit from ongoing education and research efforts in your unit? We seek opportunities for student internships, part-time instructors, and external advisors for our curriculum and programs.

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Marshall University — Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation InstituteAgency Name: Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute at Marshall UniversityContact Name: Sang H. Yoo ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 696-3376URL: http://www.ngrati.org

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The RTI, Tier I National Transportation Center awarded by United States Department of Transportation, is devoted to assist government agencies (especially WV State and local governments), nonprofit organizations, and private industries in their deployment of geographic information systems and related technologies. We provide expertise to organizations that are initiating their own in-house GIS operations and conduct GIS-related projects for those that have no GIS capability of their own. In addition, RTI supports the deployment and evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems applications. Our geographical extent is the Appalachian Region but may expand to the entire continental US.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?1. Precision GNSS positioning infrastructure 2. Data preparation – creation, conversion, collection, georeferencing, etc 3. Geospatial, remote sensing and analysis 4. Trail inventory and mapping 5. Web-based GIS application development 6. GIS and GNSS instructional/educational services.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? 1. Improved position accuracies 2. National Spatial Data Infrastructure CAP Statewide Cadastral Business Plan Project 3. Monitoring transportation and environmental areas of the Ohio River.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:1. WV Society of Professional Surveyors: Continuing professional instruction seminars 2. CSX: Mainline and humpyard infrastructure measurement research 3. Norfolk Southern Rail Company: Humpyard profile measurement research 4. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad: Mainline curve measurement research 5. WV Division Of Highways: GNSS geodetic infrastructure design, maintenance, data storage, landslide inventory 6. Marshall University: Archeological mapping of abandoned coal towns 7. National Radio Astronomy Observatory: location of radio telescope reference points 8. Research WV NASA Grant (State-Federal) 9. Strategic Partnership with private sector in the remote sensing research area 10. WVDOT GIS Training 11. Appalachian Regional Commission: Appalachian Development Highway System Cost to Complete Estimate, Appalachian Region Trade and Export.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. National Spatial Data Infrastructure CAP Statewide Cadastral Business Plan Grant and Cadastral

Mapping.2. 2012 Appalachian Development Highway System Cost to Complete Estimate GIS System.

3. Development of a Trails Geodatabase & Trail Inventory Mapping System for the State of West Virginia.

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1. Development of GIS platform for the Statewide Master Land Use Plan.

2. Appalachian Region Transportation and Export Data system.3. The development of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry for Transportation Program Area.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Funding

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West Virginia University — Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

Organization Name: Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and DesignContact Names: Mike Strager ([email protected]), Associate Professor, Division of Resource Management, 304-293-6463 Web URL: http://davis.wvu.edu/

What courses are offered in GIS and remote sensing at undergraduate and graduate levels?(1) Degree level and average number of students enrolled?(2) What are the areas of emphasis of these courses?

Undergraduate GraduateFoundations of Applied GIS (90 students) -presentation of GIS as a tool for problem solving

Advanced Spatial Analysis (20 students) -covers the integration of models and spatial data to solve problems

Applied GIS Natural Science (50 students) -natural science applications of GIS

Spatial Statistics and Regression (15 students) -pattern analysis and geographically weighted regression

Applied GIS Social Science (13 students) -social science applications of GIS

Spatial Econometrics (20 students) -spatial econometrics and regression modeling

Remote Sensing of the Environment (35 students) -focuses on remote sensing use in forestry applications

Quantitative Methods Spatial Optimization (9 students) -optimization methods with spatial data

GPS Use and Applications (12 students) -theory and use of GPS technologyGIS Tourism/Recreation (30 students) -the use of GIS in recreational and tourism to aid in planningComputer Graphics Landscape Architecture (15 students) -3D graphic rendition using georeferenced spatial features

List any centers associated with your unit that utilize geospatial technologies:

Natural Resource Analysis Center http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/Environment Research Center http://erc.davis.wvu.edu/Water Research Institute http://wvwri.nrcce.wvu.edu/Appalachian Hardwood Center http://ahc.caf.wvu.edu/joomla/Community Design Team http://cred.ext.wvu.edu/programs/community_design_team

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What trends do you see in student education in GIS?The continuing trend in our College is the use of spatial technologies in applied research applications and uses across disciplines. Secondly, we are teaching and seeing many examples of graduate student research which integrate spatial regression modeling.

What employment trends are you experiencing for recent graduates in GIS?We have witnessed that five or seven years ago students who had GIS coursework and working experience with degrees in fields such as forestry, wildlife, soil science, entomology, parks and recreation, environmental protection, landscape architecture had a big advantage in the job search. Now, employers pretty much expect working GIS knowledge from students in those fields.

Most students who get jobs using GIS are in areas of land management which include industries such as oil and gas, forestry, permitting, and planning.

What accomplishments has your unit seen in the past few years?We have seen increased interest in student enrollment in classes that focus on integrating their field of study with spatial data and analysis. Also, many professors are offering either special topics or components of their courses that focus on use of geospatial technologies.

What do you see as the most significant geospatial education challenges that you are experiencing? One of our challenges is to effectively present and cover the material that non-geography students need to be effective in using GIS technology. We always encourage our students to take classes in Geography at WVU to be trained by experts in Geographic Information Science which complements our teaching of GIS as a tool.

In what ways can the statewide geospatial community contribute, participate, and benefit from ongoing education and research efforts in your unit?The statewide geospatial community can contribute to our education program by providing feedback on the abilities of the graduates from our College or share with us updated outlines of preferred skill sets they would like students to have to meet industry trends.

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West Virginia University — Department of Geology & Geography, Eberly College of Arts & Sciences Organization Name: Department of Geology and Geography, WVUContact Names: Drs. Jamison Conley, Greg Elmes, Trevor Harris, Brendon McNeil, Tim WarnerWeb URL: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/

What courses are offered in GIS and remote sensing at undergraduate and graduate levels?(1) Degree level and average number of students enrolled?

Degrees include BA, MA, PhDAlso award Certificate in GIS

(2) What are the areas of emphasis of these courses?

Undergraduate Geog 150 Digital Earth (80 students) Geog 300 Geographical Data Analysis (25 students) Geog 350 Intro to GISci (100 students) Geog 452 GISci Applications (15 students) Geog 453 GISci: Design and Implementation (15 students) Geog 454 Environmental GIS (25 students) Geog 455 Intro to Remote Sensing (20 students) Geog 462 Digital Cartography (25 students) Geog 463 Crime Geography: Concepts, Mapping, and Analysis (15 students)

Graduate Geog 550 Geographic Information Science (10 students) Geog 594 Geovisualization and the CAVE (12 students) Geog 655 Remote Sensing Principles (15 students) Geog 651 GIS: Technical Issues (10 students) Geog 694 Qualitative GISci (5 students) Geog 694 The Geospatial Web (5 students) Geog 701 Advanced Research Methods (14 students) Geog 752 Advanced GIS (5 students) Geog 753 Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (10 students) Geog 755 Advanced Remote Sensing (10 students)

List any centers associated with your unit that utilize geospatial technologies: WV State GIS technical Center (http://www.wvgis.wvu.edu) WV View (http://wvview.org) WVU Energy Research Group (http://www.natcarbviewer.org) Spatial Ecosystem Lab (Http://geo.wvu.edu/~bmcneil)

What trends do you see in student education in GIS? Students are entering the program with some awareness of GISci Students are increasingly taking a sequence of courses in GISci to obtain a deeper knowledge

of geospatial technologies and with career tracks in mind Students want courses in GISci earlier in their university courses so that they can link the

technologies to other application areas or disciplinary domains.

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An increasing number of Minor degrees in GISci and Certificates in GIS Courses are being offered that look beyond solely GIS toward other geospatial technologies –

eg Geospatial Web, Geovisualization

What employment trends are you experiencing for recent graduates in GIS? Until the recent downturn in the economy we had very good placement of graduates – this

market has tightened considerably. Employers are more selective and looking for skillsets and experience gained through GIS projects or internships.

What accomplishments has your unit seen in the past few years? Increasing numbers of students taking GISci courses Growing number of students moving on to research degrees in GISci

What do you see as the most significant geospatial education challenges that you are experiencing?

How to manage the growing number of students with a broad mix of skillsets, understanding, and backgrounds. The sequencing of courses helps this considerably but pre-requisites create their own problems.

Keeping up to speed with the rapidly evolving technology Being aware of the changing nature of geospatial technologies such as Neogeography, the

Geospatial Web, and Volunteered Geographic Information

In what ways can the statewide geospatial community contribute, participate, and benefit from ongoing education and research efforts in your unit?

Offering internship opportunities in organizations or agencies (paid or unpaid) where the students can obtain practical experience and understand the GIS working environment would be invaluable.

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West Virginia University — Natural Resource Analysis Center Agency Name: WVU Natural Resource Analysis Center, West Virginia UniversityContact Name: Mike Strager ([email protected])URL: http://www.nrac.wvu.edu

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Natural Resource Analysis Center (NRAC) provides research, teaching, and service for environmental and natural resource issues with a geospatial context for West Virginia, the surrounding Appalachian region, and beyond.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward? Primary steward: hydrologic modeling related datasets for WV, including networked 1:24,000 stream segment level watersheds, ecological land units, WV GAP land cover and wildlife habitat modeling distribution datasets. Supplementary steward: WV National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) mapped surface water features.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? NRAC provides research, teaching and outreach for environmental and natural resource issues. Specific technical capabilities include high resolution airborne/terrestrial LiDAR data acquisition and analysis, land cover/land form mapping and modeling, landscape ecology, GIS application development, and geospatial support for WVU Extension.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? NRAC welcomes collaboration from the WV GIS community in projects related to local and regional planning, resource extraction, ecological monitoring and assessment, watershed restoration, remote sensing, spatial decision support, airborne and ground based LiDAR data acquisition and analysis, and more.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We participate in a number of cooperative efforts with agencies at all levels, as well as work with other academic institutions, non-profits, and private sector interests. Current and recent cooperators include the WV Department of Environmental Protection, WV Division of Natural Resources, US Geological Survey, USDA Forest Service, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Energy, US Office of Surface Mining, Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science (ARIES), WVU Extension including the Community Design Team, WV Water Research Institute, Downstream Strategies, and others.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Detailed LiDAR mapping: NRAC has established significant airborne and ground based LiDAR

capabilities, completing approximately 5 million acres of LiDAR based mapping in WV’s coalfields region (with WVDEP), extensive stream habitat restoration work in the Upper Shavers Fork watershed, and additional project work in Wyoming, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

2. Land cover/land form mapping: NRAC has completed a statewide 30m land cover dataset based on 2009/10 Landsat TM imagery, as well as several higher resolution datasets related to forest fragmentation, ecological land units, resource extraction, and wetland occurrence.

3. Spatial decision support: NRAC has developed a number of spatial decision support system tools, including a source water protection system, Alternative Futures tool, fish and wildlife

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habitat protection tools, and various hydrological modeling capabilities.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue to broaden LiDAR capabilities, including fusion of airborne and terrestrial data and

application of LiDAR in new areas, such as gas resource development, archaeological site work, alternative energy development, and highway construction.

2. Data dissemination: NRAC hopes to make land cover and land form mapping results available to GIS users with distribution through the WVGIS Technical Center website.

3. NHD stewardship with the WVGIS Technical Center, WVDEP and others. NRAC hopes to further work on stewardship, maintenance, and updates to the National Hydrography Dataset for WV.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Expanding into web-based GIS application development, including mobile platforms (Android,

iOS) for mapping and spatial decision support.2. Establishing statistical relationships between land use/land cover patterns and landscape level

impacts on water quality, ecology, etc.3. Accurate and timely mapping and analysis of land use/land cover in rapidly changing areas with

active resource extraction activities in WV and the surrounding region.

West Virginia University — Northern WV Brownfields Assistance Center

Agency Name: Northern WV Brownfields Assistance Center, West Virginia UniversityContact Name: Derek Springston ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 293-7068URL: http://www.wvbrownfields.org)

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The WV Brownfields Assistance Centers were created to promote economic development and environmental and public health protection through innovative redevelopment of brownfield sites. Through GIS, we identify project sites, map relevant infrastructure for redevelopment as well as maintain a database of potential brownfields to connect stakeholders to individual projects.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward? Statewide Brownfields property Inventory.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Online Brownfields interactive map with property profiles, GIS analysis of properties to fit inquiries, spreadsheet listing of properties, brownfields related data collection and dissemination.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Contact us for more info on how to participate in our mapping efforts. We will gladly accept new brownfields properties. Our data is used to create a database of property that could significantly benefit from revitalization, cleanup, and redevelopment.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: WVDEP, WVU, NRAC, EPA, WVDO, Brooke-

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Hancock Regional Planning Development Council, Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle

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West Virginia University — WV GIS Technical Center Agency Name: WV GIS Technical Center, West Virginia UniversityContact Name: Drs. Gregory Elmes & Trevor Harris (Co-Directors), Kurt Donaldson (GIS Manager;

[email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 293-9467URL: http://wvgis.wvu.edu/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:To provide focus, direction and leadership to users of geographic information systems (GIS), digital mapping and remote sensing within the state of West Virginia.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward? No specific dataset.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Supplementary steward – “framework” base layers for West Virginia including geographic names, streams, elevation, imagery and more.

Web Map Services:o http://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/ArcGIS/rest/services (Access from Web)o services.wvgis.wvu.edu/ArcGIS/services (Access from ArcGIS Desktop)

Web Map Applications: (www.MapWV.gov) State Data Clearinghouse (http://www.wvgis.wvu.edu)

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The WV GIS Technical Center collaborates with partners to advance the State’s Spatial Data Infrastructure through data development and dissemination of geospatial information through the Data Clearinghouse, web map services, and online mapping applications. It also provides training programs, advisory services, and other outreach services in support of rapidly changing and evolving geospatial technologies.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: In coordination with its partners, the Center is working on the following projects:

Federal: FEMA – access to Digital Flood Hazard Rate (DFIRM) maps and advisory flood height dataNRCS – interagency conservation tool for rare and endangered speciesUSGS – stewardship of National Hydrography Dataset and updates to National GazetteerU.S. DOE – carbon sequestration and energy resource mappingU.S. Health – community medicine.

State: DHHR – provide GIS support for Surface Water Assessment ProgramDHSEM – updating address locator services from Statewide Addressing and Mapping SystemDOT – inventory and develop statewide trails layerDNR – provide online mapping support for conservation plans and stocked trout streamsDTR – assist with mineral parcel mapping and standardsNFIP Office – updates to WV Flood Tool online map application for State National FIP Coordinator SHPO – publish cultural resources online

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Local:Continual GIS technical support for regional and local organizations.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completed the migration of ArcIMS applications to ArcGIS Server.2. Upgraded hardware system to include 61 Terrabytes of storage in a virtualized server

environment.3. Attained national certified GIS trainers for Esri ArcGIS Desktop software training and URISA

cartography workshop.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Publish new geospatial data, web services and mapping applications.

2. Expand training and educational programs for WV GIS Community.3. Provide technical support services to WV GIS Community

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Sustained funding for skilled personnel as well as funding for GIS map and data servers which

have an average life cycle of three years.2. Inventorying GIS resources at the state and county levels.

3. Developing applications for mobile devices.

West Virginia University — West Virginia ViewAgency Name: West Virginia View, West Virginia UniversityContact Name: Dr. Tim Warner ([email protected])URL: http://www.wvview.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:1. Establish the formal linking of, and cooperation between, the major remote sensing organizations

in West Virginia, and promote community outreach by these organizations. 2. Share existing and purchase additional remotely sensed data (as permitted by data purchase

agreements), and develop the remote sensing infrastructure through improved access to data, computer resources, and field equipment.

3. Establish a web site for promoting remote sensing activities in the state, and sharing data. 4. Host or support statewide remote sensing conferences, and promote both theoretical and applied

research relevant to the needs of West Virginia.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?West Virginia View is responsible for the USGS Landsat data archive for West Virginia

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?West Virginia View provides basic support for West Virginia Landsat data and geospatial science and technology education and training.

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How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The community can benefit from WVView in any way that relates to the use of Landsat data or any other federal public domain satellite data sets

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:WVView works closely with the NASA IV&V Facility's Educator Resource Center to support Earth system science and technology training for K-12 science teachers throughout the state.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Awarded a NSF Geoscience Education grant to fund teacher training in remote sensing and GIS.2. Established a multi-state remote sensing education program with Ohio View, Maryland View,

and Pennsylvania View.3. Supported geospatial science and technology training for pre-service science teachers at WVU.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Maintain West Virginia View's program in light of significantly reduced funding.2. Develop geospatial education materials for AmericaView consortium.3. Maintain the West Virginia View data archive at current levels.

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):Funding is the biggest obstacle to the continued operation and development of WVView.

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West Virginia University — WV Water Research InstituteAgency Name: West Virginia Water Research Institute, West Virginia UniversityContact Name: Melissa O'Neal (melissa.o'[email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 293-7006URL: http://www.wvwri.org/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:"The West Virginia Water Research Institute (WVWRI) is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment through research and outreach with industry, government agencies, academia, and the public." True to our mission statement, we are mindful of the importance to bringing real value to our research. One of the ways we are striving to provide research to others is through online intelligent GIS web maps. Our first endeavor is an intelligent web map of water quality data collected throughout the Monongahela River Basin (WV, PA, MD).

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Water quality data in the Monongahela River Basin (WV, PA, MD) - collected by WVWRI.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? Display of water quality data collected both by WVWRI and grass roots organizations who are monitoring in the Monongahela River Basin.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Participation in providing water quality data for display and/or making connections to existing GIS servers with water quality related data. Benefits other users by providing a centralized display of water quality related data, external factors that may influence water quality, and additional information.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: The WVWRI have been working with local watershed groups and other grass roots organizations in the Monongahela River Basin (MRB) to provide the GIS platform for display of their water quality data. Additional grant funding has been requested to provide an expansion of the project outside of the MRB. Additionally, WVWRI is very interested in incorporating data from other agencies, institutions, and others.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Creation of online intelligent web maps.2. Effectively publishing to the GIS server.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Incorporating SQL database to GIS server.2. Utilizing GIS development tools for online intelligent web mapping creations.3. Enhancing reporting tools (graphs, figures) on online data maps, including timelines.

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Technical expertise related to online intelligent mapping applications.2. Technical expertise related to GIS server.3. Technical expertise related to mobile GIS applications.

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Regional and Local Organizations 2012 Agency Roll Call

City of BridgeportAgency Name: City of BridgeportContact Name: Dennis KruzelURL: http://www.bridgeportwv.com/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Our goal is to complete data collection of citywide infrastructure and maintain the city’s potable water, waste water, and storm water systems.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? The organization is responsible for datasets pertaining to potable water, waste water, and storm water in the City of Bridgeport.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?We provide various maps of the city and surrounding areas.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Accurate locations of underground utilities. Monitoring of sewer system flow and CSO's.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We are currently and continually working with the Harrison county assessor’s office to keep updated records of the city boundaries and tax data as well as aerial photography

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completing our records for hydrants in our water system.

2. Finishing our sign inventory.3. Acquiring new aerial photography.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue GPS data collection.2. Continuing our relationship with the Harrison county assessor’s office.

3. Increase sharing of GIS data across our organization.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Keeping all the utilities up to date on our GIS system.2. Increasing accuracy along all the different layers.

3. Increasing the usefulness of the GIS information and system for non-GIS departments.

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City of CharlestonAgency Name: City of CharlestonContact Name: Adam Cottrell ([email protected])URL: http://cityofcharleston.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:A mission statement has not been established or approved by the City's GIS Committee yet.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? Under Review, not established

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Under Review, not established

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Once established, it is planned to have Charleston's spatial assets/features mapped and published for the public to view.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Currently building relationships with WV DOH/DOT, State GIS Coordinator's Office, County Assessor's, County Commission and other agencies. Maintaining relations with Metro 911.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Current trying to establishing a GIS Program for the City of Charleston.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Completed Site Address Layer and Road Centerline Layer for the City

2. Implement Storm Water and Street Sign Management/Inventory Systems3. Obtain an adequate spatial representation of parcels and adjoining parcels of the Charleston area

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Develop productive relationships and cooperation between external agencies

2. Collaboration between City Departments3. Funding

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City of Morgantown

Agency Name: Planning Department, City of Morgantown Contact Name: Christopher M. Fletcher, AICP, Director ([email protected] Phone: (304) 284-7413URL: http://www.morgantown.com/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The City of Morgantown is a contributing partner with the recently organized Monongalia County Geospatial Committee focused on developing a shared multi-jurisdictional geographical information system. The extent of our digital mapping includes the incorporated and immediate urban areas of the City of Morgantown..

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Existing and future land use, zoning classification, corporate boundary, annexation, special districts (TIF, business development, historical, police, fire, and code enforcement zones, etc.), neighborhood association boundaries, parking authority inventory, parks and recreation, beautification sites, municipal-owned property, building footprints, traffic counts, traffic accidents, inventory and existing conditions of public rights-of-way, etc. Morgantown Utility Board (MUB) develops and maintains water, sanitary sewer, and storm water facility mapping.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Land use and development analysis; intra-governmental spatial data development and map generation; zoning classification management; map generation for planning and zoning case clients.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Our interests in developing and maintaining shared GIS are to expand local digital knowledge, improve department operational efficiencies, and expand municipal services. We are more than willing to share geospatial data that we create and exchange our experiences as we move forward. We advocate public policy, rule making, and administrative actions that embrace GIS technologies. Additionally, we are actively engaged in efforts to improve local digital cadastral data locally.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The City of Morgantown is a contributing partner with the recently organized Monongalia County Geospatial Committee focused on developing a shared multi-jurisdictional geographical information system.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. The City's Engineering Department has made significant contributions in spatial data

development and analysis specific to inventory existing conditions of public rights-of-way.2. The development and utilization of spatial data in the areas of traffic counts and traffic accidents.

3. The development of existing land uses city-wide as a part of the comprehensive plan update project currently underway and scheduled for completion in December 2012 to January 2013.

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Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Successful advances by the Monongalia County Geospatial Committee to develop and implement a shared multi-jurisdictional geographical information system.

2. Expand land use and development related spatial data as a part of the comprehensive plan update currently underway and scheduled for completion in December 2012 to January 2013.

3. Expand the development and utilization of spatial data in other City of Morgantown departments; particularly crime reporting and analysis.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Monongalia County Assessor's unwillingness to convert tax mapping from paper to a CAMA integrated GIS-based platform.2. The lack of resources and staff capacity to significantly expand the development, utilization, and analysis of spatial data.3. The lack of geospatial integration in the City's New World software platform that manages building permitting, inspections, rental registration, business licensing, etc.

Berkeley County CommissionAgency Name: Berkeley County CommissionContact Name: Gary Wine ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 267-5113URL: http://berkeleywv.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:To provide accurate addressing and mapping for the residents of Berkeley County, WV. A total area of 322 Sq. miles.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Addressing, Transportation and Districting.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Online interactive district mapping for Voting Districts.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Eventually, by us providing a more thorough mapping portal, all forms of emergency services will benefit by improving response time. Also, this will allow for those within the community and those outside to see a more detailed layout of the county and its resources.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:This is a new department within the agency, and has yet to work with any agency outside

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Initial development of a department dedicated to GIS.

2. Creation of districting that is population balanced.

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Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Transition addressing internally.

2. Develop a strong online presence in mapping for the community.3. Develop a system for data updating that is consistent and accurate.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Software transition. Leaving one product for another.

2. Determining appropriate procedures that replace older methods.

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Cabell County 911Agency Name: Berkeley County CommissionContact Name: JR VanOoteghem ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 526-8578URL: http://www.ccerc911.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Provide E-911 addressing and mapping services for Cabell County, WV.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?1. Street centerlines2. Address points3. Public Safety jurisdictional polygons4. Subdivision polygons5. Two-way radio and cellular towers

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We have been able to utilize GIS resources and personnel from Marshall University on certain projects and have provided statistical data sets to classes at Marshall for GIS training and educational use.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:Re-addressing rural areas of Cabell County

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Providing web based access to GIS resources to public safety personnel2. Appropriate personnel to effectively manage GIS resources3.

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Fayette County Assessor’s Office Agency Name: Fayette County Assessor’s OfficeContact Name: Tyler Bragg ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 574-4340URL: http://www.fayetteassessor.com/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Our mission is to enhance our tax parcel management system, increase our organizational efficiency, ensure accurate property assessments, and make information available to the citizens of Fayette County by utilizing GIS technology as a land management system.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The Assessor's office is primarily the steward of tax parcel boundary data.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The Assessor's office maintains subscription-based website that allows users to conduct real estate research using our GIS parcel layer. Within the county, our office assists other governmental organizations in their GIS projects by providing data, assisting with software/hardware related issues, and promoting the sharing of GIS data

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?As the primary users of our data at the statewide level would be State agencies, the benefits are dependent on the use of the data at each agency. The WV Division of Environmental Protection, WV Division of Transportation, and WV State Tax Division would most likely be the primary users of this data. Our GIS parcel layer is available for all state agencies and educational institutions upon request. Additionally, we promote a working relationship with adjacent counties for cross-county parcel boundary mapping, and our data is available to these counties upon request.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions or the private sector:The Assessor's office has been working extensively with private sector land surveying and engineering firms within Fayette County over the last year. As we encounter errors or discrepancies in our tax parcel mapping, we often turn to these companies to see if boundary surveys have been made, especially when there are very little (or very poor quality) documents recorded in the official county records. We have been able to successfully "fix" historically "bad" areas of parcel boundary mapping due to these local companies.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Implemented a pilot "Mobile GIS for Field Appraisers" project using ArcGIS Mobile and a

Laptop/Tablet Conversion PC.

2. Successfully spread the use of GIS to Field Appraisers within the office environment using new Pictometry data and EFS software.

3. Improved our working relationship and organizational coordination with other departments using GIS in the county.

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Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Completely implement Mobile GIS packages in all Assessor vehicles.2. Continue to work with county organizations and municipalities to help develop the use and application of GIS throughout the county.3. Begin producing "finished" tax maps using the ArcGIS Data Driven Pages functionality (Currently use AutoCad for final tax maps).

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Training Non-GIS personnel to use GIS technology to replace current workflows2. Lack of GIS Personnel - So many objectives to accomplish, but not enough time for everything

3. Technological Advances and Funding - Technology costs, and dedicated funding for the GIS is limited. As more organizations begin to use GIS, we can more easily justify expenses.

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Grant County Mapping & Addressing Office Agency Name: Grant County Mapping and Addressing OfficeContact Name: Michelle Sites ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 257-4756

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The mission of this office is to provide the most accurate geospatial information to the citizens and government of Grant County for emergency services purposes.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Primary steward of road centerline and address files. Secondary steward of emergency response zones, subdivisions, etc.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?E911 CAD updates, printed wall maps and map books, land development approval of road names, 911 mapping and addressing ordinance compliance, etc.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?By providing the most accurate and updated mapping and addressing data in case of any emergency.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions or the private sector:Provide daily assistance with geospatial information to all government and private entities.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completed address conversion for the entire county.2. County-wide Pictometry installation.3. Distributing county map books and wall maps.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Establish inter-office GIS server.2. GIS support for CAD upgrade.3. Develop inter-department link between our office, assessor's office and health department.

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. New address match to current land based telephone numbers.2. Getting all county entities on the same GIS platform for information sharing.

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Greenbrier County Assessor’s Office Agency Name: Greenbrier County Assessor’s OfficeContact Name: Larry Butler ([email protected]) Tonya Brown ([email protected])URL: www.greenbriercounty.net

Your organization's GIS mission statement and geographical extent for digital mapping:Our goal is to promote cooperation between county departments as we continue to develop and maintain a GIS that can help county officials make informed decisions. We also provide the public with accurate and up to date tax mapping data . Our extent is Greenbrier County.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The Assessor’s office is responsible for tax parcel data, additions of road name updates from the 911 center, gas well location as well as natural resource and other GIS data.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Tax map sales with or without aerial Pictometry and /or topography, associated IAS data pertaining to parcels as well as providing data to county departments to assist with decision making.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The office has worked with the county clerk’s office to provide revised voting precinct and magisterial district maps. We also have provided the county fire departments with maps to update the defined fire districts. We have hosted an intern from Concord College to work with GIS mapping.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completion of parcel conversion for entire county.

2. Converted to Arc 10.3. Worked with Sheriff’s department to utilize Pictometry hardware given to department.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Converting to the newest Arc version.

2. Obtaining correct addressing data from the 911 center.3. Keeping GIS information current and correcting mapping issues as they arise.

Harrison County Agency Name: Harrison CountyContact Name: Mike Pizzino ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 624-8703

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Harrison County and Taylor County Addressing.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Assessor Parcels, Districts, Voter Information, Building Footprints, Aerial Photography

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Voter precinct map , tax maps

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Q&A on best practices, data sharing.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:City of Bridgeport, Clarksburg and Nutterfort sharing agreements

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Parcel Layer complete2. Online mapping system built (not online but complete)

3. Address locators with current 911 addresses

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Election results viewer.

2. More automation with arc python.3. Fix a little bug in Esri dealing with tax maps :)

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. GIS Coordinator combined into county position vs. just assessor

2. ArcGIS 10 improvements

3. Dedicated servers

Jefferson County GIS/AddressingAgency Name: Jefferson County GIS/AddressingContact Name: Todd Fagan, GISP ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 724-6759

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:To support the needs of Jefferson County citizens, businesses, and government by developing, maintaining, and providing accurate, current and cost-effective geospatial information and database management systems through the use of the highest professional standards and ethics.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Primarily road centerline and addresses. Secondarily all environmental, buildings, driveways, zoning, subdivisions, election districts, emergency response zones, historical resources, trails, railroads, etc.

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What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?911 Dispatch mapping updates, static PDF maps online, map books, GIS data sales, geographic analysis and support, land development application review for road names and address assignment, 911 address ordinance compliance, internships

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Harvest our local GIS data.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:GIS support for five municipalities in Jefferson County; cooperative effort with local emergency responders on address compliance; annual Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Forum; local transportation planning of Route 340 corridor; 2012 aerial photography coalition; Homeland Security and Emergency Management support; overhauled Master Street Address Guide; Shepherd University internship program

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. 99% acceptance rate for Master Street Address Guide (MSAG).2. Launched County-wide Address Compliance Program3. Revised Magisterial Election Districts and Voting Precincts

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Provide local GIS data via web mapping service.2. Integrate GIS with land development planning workflow and document management system3. GIS support for CAD implementation.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Budget restraints limit web service opportunities2. Technological (local internet speed and enterprise-wide integration)3. Inaccurate but freely available web map applications (Google, Bing, etc)

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Jefferson County Assessor’s OfficeAgency Name: Jefferson County Assessor’s OfficeContact Name: Tori Myers ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 728-7527URL: http://jefferson.wvassessor.com/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:No Mission Statement, Jefferson County.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Parcel layer(s)

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Parcel Layer(s), Online GIS viewer

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? It seems I am always pushing the envelope in the technological and GIS arenas which benefits others in the state. I share my mistakes and successes with others via the mappers list serve.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The most significant cooperative effort is the Geohistory/Geoexplorer project. A cooperative effort with The Jefferson County Landmarks Commission, Shepherd University, and others

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completed Clarke County line retracement survey2. Began phase 2 conversion - remapping entire county to modern standards

3. Upgraded IAS data (online) to include real estate mobile homes and commercial properties

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue phase 2 conversion.

2. Web GIS upgrades3. Work with ESRI - Parcel Fabric

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Time

2. Resources

3. Parcel Fabric

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Marion County Assessor’s OfficeAgency Name: Marion County Assessor’s OfficeContact Name: Jim Priester ([email protected])URL: http://www.marioncountywv.com

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Marion County Assessor’s Office has completed most of its mapping.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?The assessor’s office is the primary steward for property tax maps in Marion County.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?The office provides parcel maps and specialized maps, such as EMS district maps, precinct maps, and PSD maps.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Grants to help offset costs for maintenance and development would help the office to carry out its mission.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The assessor’s office works with FEMA to update flood plain maps, and with PSDs to map water lines.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Acquire utility data in GIS format.2. Preparing to submit RFP for new aerial photography of county

To geospatial goal for the coming year:Acquire new aerial photography

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Gathering information layers for GIS program2. Keeping participating members interested in moving forward

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Mineral County Addressing-Mapping OfficeAgency Name: Mineral County Addressing-Mapping OfficeContact Name: Dennis L McGann ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 788-4111URL: http://minco.maps.esri.com/explorer

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:In order to uniformly assign and maintain roadway centerlines, street names and addresses also providing for easy identification of those numbers for various purposes to promote the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens Mineral County. The Mineral County Commission has established the Mineral County Addressing - Mapping Office and charged it with the responsibility of Mapping all roads, streets and buy-ways and assigning a name to all roadways and assigning a physical address to each habitable structure and maintaining this system in a logical, accurate manner within Mineral County in an effort to reduce response time in an emergency.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? Road centerlines, physical addresses and former HC, RR postal route addresses. Maintenance of all Fire Dept., EMS and Law Enforcement agency response areas. Providing Maps and GIS, geospatial information to participating Local, County, State, Federal Agencies and participating agencies.

What geospatial services/products does your organization provide? Maps, GIS, Geospatial Data.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The statewide geospatial community will benefit from our project by having accurate road centerlines, geographical location of every habitat structure with in Mineral County. This will also include information emergency response agency designated response areas, water resource locations (rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, dams), public utilities, fire hydrant locations and as the program progresses the system will include water, sewage lines also facility locations.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Our office, on a daily basis, interacts with all local, state, federal agencies, financial institutions, realtors, etc., by assisting them with GIS, Geospatial information.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Roadway Centerlines.2. Assignment of Physical Addresses to structures, (ongoing project).3. Digitized emergency response areas.

To geospatial goal for the coming year:1. Completion of Physical addressing project.2. Locating Fire hydrants throughout the county.3. Providing emergency response agencies with software that can be installed in onboard computers

that will interact with GIS satellites systems providing for a quicker location of the location of an emergency response.

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Road Centerlines.2. Weeding out non-habitable structures from our inventory.3. Development of software program to aid in emergency response.

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Monongalia County Commission Agency Name: Monongalia County Commission Contact Name: Michael A. Paugh ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 413-0291

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Provide GIS data and assistance for a geospatial means representing Monongalia County, West Virginia.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?We house geographic data specifically in relation to Monongalia County West Virginia. We are the primary steward of the 2010 County mapping project, consisting of countywide building footprints, 2 foot contours, and 6 inch aerial orthophotography..

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?We provide floodplain determination and mapping, as well as property locations. All maps created are available digitally or as a printed hard copy.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We have in house data that other members of the state do not have the availability to download. Anyone contacting us directly can obtain data specifically for Monongalia County.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:As of 2012 we have established the Monongalia County Geospatial Committee. This Committee is comprised of any agency in Monongalia County have it be private, government, or independent who want to take an active role in the technologic advance of GIS in Monongalia County. Ideas are discussed and worked out on how we can all benefit in the betterment of the county.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Complete the gathering of 2010 pinnacle mapping project.2. Establish Inter- office GIS Server.3. Establish Monongalia County Geospatial Committee.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Develop RFP for updating addressing data for the county.2. Work with Assessor’s office in developing project to digitize tax maps.3. Continue to inform and educate local political figures about the importance of GIS in the county.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. All county agencies are not on a GIS platform/ not all county data is digitized.2. Inter-Office GIS server is not online/local only.3. Several different data sets for county data. In the process of organizing and comparing all of

them.

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Ohio County Community DevelopmentAgency Name: Ohio County Community DevelopmentContact Name: David Weaver ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 234-3883

Your organization’s GIS mission statement and geographical extent for digital mapping:Our mission is to provide accurate maps and GIS data to all county entities, corporations and the public to improve communication and decision making.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?911 Addressing Data, Emergency Services Mapping, Water and Sewer line maps. Generalized development parcels for the Ohio County Development Authority and the public.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?911 Addressing Data, Emergency Services Mapping, Water and Sewer line maps, Aerials, 2' Topographical Contours.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The WVDEP has already contacted me about the LiDAR and 2' Contours. The WVGIS Technical Center has been a wonderful help over the years. The WVDEP providing downloadable shapefiles of the last 60 days of new gas wells has been invaluable.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Collection of fire hydrant locations by local Volunteer Fire Departments. Sharing of water and sewer system information by the City of Wheeling and Ohio County Public Service District. 911 Addressing Data is being shared with 911 dispatch which is under the City of Wheeling.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Plotted evacuation zones for shale drilling operations and incorporated 911 addressing data into

reverse 911 system.2. Political Redistricting of Voting Precincts, Magisterial Districts, and Polling Places using US

Census data3. New aerials with LiDAR flown in March 2011 Countywide 2' contours delivered.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Use ArcGIS.com for Organizations to publish maps to smartphones, tablets, etc. (when it

becomes available).

2. Sell the 2' contours and new aerials to energy companies3. Finish waterline mapping for Ohio County PSD.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Lack of Understanding of the potential of GIS.2. Time constraints at the management level.

3. Lack of proper equipment (Computer Networking needs updated, more smartphones and tablets for people in the field).

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Preston County Assessor’s OfficeAgency Name: Preston County Assessor’s OfficeContact Name: Terri L. Funk ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 329-1220

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Our agency is working to provide the most accurate, up-to date information possible to the people of Preston County using technological advances to incorporate spatial datasets into the Preston County area digital tax mapping system.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Our agency supplies geospatial data in the form of a tax mapping system to properly identify and assess real estate property.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? This geospatial data is incorporated with current digital tax parcel data and references along with, hydrography, road centerline data, and aerial imagery. This product also includes many other options for additional digital data. The data is produced as a traditional tax map and also as digital files including PDF and shape files.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The information can be shared with surrounding counties to assist with tax assessment and statewide to build a digital map of WV compatible for inclusion into a national map grid.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The combination of mapping and addressing information with the integrated assessment system is an ongoing co-operative effort between the Preston County Assessor's Office and the Office of Emergency Management. The accuracy and maintenance of this information will continue to provide current datasets that can be shared among emergency services and law enforcement officials.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. New GIS Server and ArcEditor software for multiuser editing with topology integrity.2. Completion of pilot projects that add annotation and road right of ways to tax maps.3. Continued maintenance of mapping splits and changes geo-referenced with co-go integrity.Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Upgrading to and maintaining map books in Arc 10. 2. Completion of the annotation and road right of way project. 3. Make full use of the multiuser editing capability.Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Maintaining and correcting integrity of geo-referenced tax parcels with current COGO

information.2. Maintaining tax maps printed as hard copy for the public that is easy to read with as much

information as possible. 3. Acquiring accurate digital data to enhance the integrity of our tax maps.

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Putnam County Assessor’s OfficeAgency Name: Putnam County Assessor's OfficeContact Name: Paul Wray ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 586-0206Web URL: www.putnamcounty.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The Putnam County Assessor's Office will strive to keep the most accurate and up to date countywide parcel dataset possible. We will work to make all records deemed to be a "public record" produced by this office available to the public. We will work with property owners, surveyors, attorneys, and others to ensure the accuracy for which we strive to achieve.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Tax Parcel Layer.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?County Tax Maps and datasets

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The Assessor's Office is always looking for new data to include in our database to use as a tool in ensuring we have the most accurate data. In turn we want to work with other forms of government to avoid duplication of information thus saving tax dollars.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:The Assessor's Office shares and receives data from the Putnam County Planning Commission, Sheriff's Office, and 911 on a regular basis. We work to keep all lines of communication open.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. New 1"=200' scale Digital Orthophotography, Building Footprint layer, & planimetric layer

update for Putnam County, accomplished through a cooperative agreement between the Assessor's Office, 911, and USGS

2. Parcel Information made available to the public on the web. (February 2012).3. The use of Pictometry and the digital floodplain layer made available by the WV Sheriff's

Association and The Putnam County Planning Commission, respectively.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Public awareness2. Continue building stronger relationships and communication between public and private

agencies.3. The use of GIS in the field and revaluation efforts by our data collectors and the real estate

department

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Funding2. Awareness by others3. Time

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Tucker County 911Agency Name: Tucker County 911Contact Name: Darla Stemple ([email protected])URL: http://www.tuckercountycommission.com/index.php/government/county-offices/911

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:It is the mission of Tucker County 911 to assist all Tucker County residents, and all Emergency departments by providing all residents with a GIS address. The address can be used to assist in quick and accurate location of any particular address in an emergency situation.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?GIS address for Tucker County

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?We provide accurate GIS addresses for emergency response personnel

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Benefit by having accurate and current GIS addresses for any emergency that might arise.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Cooperative efforts between 911 and assessor’s office to assist with accurate tax parcel information.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Started GIS addressing.2. Map and update all roads in the county.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Educate the public of new addresses and road names.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Matching each new address with a current land line phone number.

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Tucker County Assessor’s Office Agency Name: Tucker County Assessor’s OfficeContact Name: Paul Burns, Assessor ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 478-3727

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:To build and maintain a Tax Mapping system compliant with State Code and State Tax Mapping Guidelines.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Tax Map Parcel Data - Parcel Polygons, Lot/Tract Lines, and appropriate annotations

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Tax Map Parcel Polygons, Lot/Tract Lines, Tax Data (Land Book Data) integration, as well as other related GIS analysis and dataset generation

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Coordinate data systems better - too much independent work without coordinating that duplicates efforts and complicates usage.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Early in the GIS conversion, Canaan Valley Institute helped a fair bit in initial digitization of parcels; 911 has given good structure location data as well as roads and streams (although other data sources with poorer quality stream lines have better stream naming); Forestry Service dataset with their tract numbers and boundaries - very helpful.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completed enough analysis to determine that we need more contract work done.2. Contracted out another company to finish digitizing, annotating, etc... to get us to a final product.3. Getting more direct database access to ease Tax data integration.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Finish the contract work and get a fully operational GIS based Tax Mapping System2. Get the GIS better documented and finished GIS data and Tax Map output3. More web development for our county as well as pulling in GIS data into the site

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Time to properly maintain and document the system2. Web development using the GIS3. Handling additional GIS data and Tax data requests

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Wood County Assessor’s Office

Agency Name: Wood CountyContact Name: Robb Shaffer, GISP ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 424-1818URL: http://gis.kimballdata.com/WoodCounty/code/map.aspx

Your organization's GIS mission statement and geographical extent for digital mapping.To have the best tax maps in the state. Provide a friendly and productive experience for all of our taxpayers and customers who come to our office. Provide as much information as possible on the internet.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?Cadastral Dataset / Tax Maps

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Tax Maps in several forms: Paper, GIS data and Shapefiles. We have our GIS on the web with access at no charge.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Anybody can log on to our website and view our countywide GIS.http://gis.kimballdata.com/WoodCounty/code/map.aspx

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We have shared data both ways with and from the city of Parkersburg, Vienna, and the county 911. We have also shared our data with the state. We have download GIS layers from the GIS Tech Center at WVU.

Top three geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. I have had lots of good training.2. We have completed the final round edits for printing paper maps on all of the districts and

corporations in the county.3. We have our internet project cleaned up and in pretty good shape.

Top geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Training, Training and more training2. To get all of our new tax maps printed we only have one district to go.3. To get all of our Fourteen Districts final edge matching complete, to clean up our Topologic

errors run a county mismatch and account for all mismatch issues. 4. To upgrade to ARCGIS 10.

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Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle MPOAgency Name: Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle MPOContact Name: Matt Mullenax ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 267-5118URL: http://www.hepmpo.net

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The HEPMPO provides geospatial information products of different themes and media to support continuing, comprehensive and cooperative transportation planning in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties WV and Washington County MD.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Roads, traffic counts, turning movements, transportation projects, trails, Census geographies, transit network, traffic analysis zones

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Maps, geographic analyses, internet mapping applications detailing boundaries, socioeconomic data, transportation networks and projects.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Access local transportation data and analyses from our region. Learn of the planning and management issues associated with the growth in our area.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: Numerous instances of working with counties and municipalities in our region, WVDOT, FHWA to further transportation planning activities and studies.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Established in-house GIS2. Developed GPS mapping capabilities3. Disseminated GIS data using internet mapping applications

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Update website with embedded mapping applications2. Provide Census data in accessible format3. Continue developing/acquiring data in preparation for Long Range Transportation Plan update

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Assimilating data from multiple sources2. Timely data access3. Lacking/incomplete metadata

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KYOVA Interstate Planning CommissionAgency Name: KYOVA Interstate Planning CommissionContact Name: Jody Sigmon, Associate Planner ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 523-7434URL: http://www.wvs.state.wv.us/kyova/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:To develop and update a GIS system for the purpose of exploring socioeconomic, natural resource, population distribution, growth, and other information in relation to geography, political boundaries, census tracts and other lines of demarcation.

In 1966, the Bureau of the Census designated the urbanized area of Huntington-Ashland-Ironton as the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). This area included: Cabell and Wayne Counties, West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio; Boyd County, and Green Up Kentucky and the cities of Huntington, West Virginia; Ashland, Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio. In 1973 and 1981 respectively, the Bureau of the Census expanded the MSA to include the County of Carter, Kentucky.

Under federal law, KYOVA is the “Metropolitan Planning Organization” (MPO) responsible for ensuring wise and coordinated use of federal/state transportation funds.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?All transportation planning modes.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? KYOVA will provide and exchange all GIS data to transportation agencies, transit operators, consulting firms, businesses, environmental agencies, and various offices of federal and state, county and municipal governments.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Emphasis was placed on completing the database and producing a traffic flow map of the HIATS

area and graphic representations of the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) and the 2010-2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) projects.

2. Identified and targeted the low income, low to moderate income, minority, and other disadvantaged segments of population in the KYOVA region to help in Environmental Justice (EJ) analysis as required per transportation planning process.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Census data will be used to update the urbanized area boundary and update functional

classification systems for the area to be incorporated into KYOVA maps.

2. Among the products will be an updated traffic flow map of the HIATS area and graphic representations of the new LRTP, the TIP and Freight Analysis and Data.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):Combination of the Tri-State area (West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky) GIS layers is most difficult. All three states have different datasets, which makes matching them up a taunting task.

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Morgantown-Monongalia MPOAgency Name: Morgantown – Monongalia County MPOContact Name: Danielle Williams ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 291-9571URL: http://www.plantogether.org

What is your agency's GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping?MPO staff will work to improve the MPO’s GIS Capabilities including gaining access to the County’s recently acquired aerial photography for the data it may contain that may be used in the upcoming update of the area’s LRTP.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Target area mapping, traffic count mapping, traffic studies, TDM agency participation tracking, map printing

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Learn about traffic volumes in the region, find priority projects, learn about the LRTP projects and TAZs, help track bicycle and pedestrian maps and counts, collaboration of data at a central location.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Traffic Counts, Traffic Studies, Priority Project Mapping, TDM Tracking, Bike Board Mapping, designated school bike and walk areas.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Working with City of Morgantown, Town of Star City, Mountain Line Transit, Morgantown Utility Board, State level and district DOT/DOH offices, other WV MPOs, and Federal partners to establish a GIS database for the MPO region and establish standards and guidelines.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Traffic Counts Maps.2. Priority Project Maps3. Server

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Input historical TC data in a dynamic mapping format2. Make current traffic count maps live online for other to review3. Purchase a GPS unit for field data collection

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Lack of central data location until Nov. 20112. Lack of cartographic standards for MPO, County, City3. Lack of technical support staff to enter data, keep fresh with GIS standards and get projects

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Region 1: Planning and Development CouncilAgency Name: Region I Planning and Development CouncilContact Name: Jason Roberts ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 431-7225URL: http://www.regiononepdc.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Support community development and support project administration for Region I's thirty-three governmental entities.

For what geospatial data is your organization the primary or supplementary steward?Bureau of Public Health water infrastructure data

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Census mapping, utility mapping, project development support, low-moderate income analysis, various services as needed by communities or other agencies.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Data sharing, cost sharing, project development.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:Contracted by Bureau of Public Health to GPS/GIS inventory, digitize, and attribute public water systems in Region I’s six-county area. FEMA RiskMAP hazard analysis program. Various projects with local counties and municipalities for revision of voting precinct mapping, etc.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Keeping GIS staff!

2. Continued mapping of public water systems.3. Increased awareness from Region I community.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Maintain/increase GIS capabilities.2. Expand mapping of public infrastructure (sewer, storm sewer, etc.).

3. Increase awareness of GIS to non-technical audiences.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Lack of dedicated funding streams.2. Lack of awareness from non-GIS community.

3. Resistance from non-GIS professionals (engineers, etc.).

Region 5: Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council and Wood-Washington-Wirt Interstate Planning Commission (2006)Agency Name: Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council (MOVRC) and Wood-Washington-Wirt

Interstate Planning Commission (WWW)

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Contact Name: Vincent J. Post, III ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 422-4993 ext. 106URL: http://www.movrc.org & http://www.triplew.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The geographic extent for WWW is Wood County, WV and Washington County, OH. The MOVRC geographic extent is Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wirt, and Wood Counties, WV.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Basic location data of water/sewer lines, transportation information.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We would be more than happy to share any information we have.

Top geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Developed an Environmental Overview Study to accompany the Long Range Transportation Plan

for the WWW study area (Wood County, WV and Washington County, Ohio. Maps include soils, wetlands, land use, etc.

2. Revised WWW web site and included better traffic count mapping3. Maintaining and updating existing data

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue to update data (transportation, water/sewer, etc.) for WWW study area and for the

counties served by the MOVRC (Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wirt, and Wood).

2. Continue to have geospatial data accessible through our Web sites.

Region 8: Planning & Development Council (2006)Agency Name: Region VIII Planning & Development CouncilContact Name: Kenneth Dyche, Executive Director ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 257-2448URL: http://www.region8pdc.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:It is the goal of the Region 8 Planning and Development Council to be able to provide GIS assistance to the counties and municipalities of the Potomac Highlands to assist with economic and community development.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Regional census data, business and economic data, and data used to produce the County’s Hazard Mitigation Plans.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? The Region 8 Planning and Development Council will use statewide data to assist with project development within the Potomac Highlands.

Top 2 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:

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1. The Council has used GIS to assist with project development within the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

2. The Council has used GIS to assist with presenting projects to possible funding agencies including providing mapping for project applications.

3. The Council continues to assist the five counties of the Potomac Highlands with required updates to Hazard Mitigation Plans.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Assist regional development authorities by providing statistical information on the geographical

area of their labor markets.2. Provide detailed GIS information in developing infrastructure projects for the region.

3. Assist counties and municipalities with project development and applications using GIS.

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Region 10: Bel-O-Mar Regional Council and Interstate Planning CommissionContact Name: Rakesh Sharma ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 242-1800URL: www.belomar.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The purpose of the GIS is to serve as an analysis tool for decision making process and to enhance the quality of life in the region. Spatial databases are developed in house and, when available, are obtained from other agencies. Region X consists of Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel counties in West Virginia. In addition to Ohio and Marshall Counties, MPO functions include Belmont County, Ohio. The Northwestern Region Area Agency of Aging (NWAAA) covers 16 counties in West Virginia.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Regional Councils facilitate development and use of local and regional datasets. Datasets needed for travel forecasting, environmental mitigation, and thematic mapping are utilized. As needed, the relevant datasets are either obtained or developed.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?GIS supports all functions of the agency including preparing short- and long-range plans to develop policies and action plans for the maintenance and development of the infrastructure and to promote economic progress. It ensures the area's compliance with regulatory requirements that result in millions of dollars for the region. Spatial analyses are conducted, and maps are generated as needed.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Local participation in a statewide effort ensures that quality data is developed and increases the probability of its use at multiple levels. Bel-O-Mar has always been a willing participant in local and statewide data development. Periodic focus group type of meetings can be useful for mutual benefit.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: Bel-O-Mar maintains excellent working relationship with local governments as well as state and federal agencies

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Completion of analyses and mapping for the long range transportation plan for 2035.2. Development of maps showing fracking sites3. Maps generated using LRS system (e.g. Project maps, crash locations map, ADT maps etc).

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Develop a pilot land use layer.2. Explore the use of Raster GIS.3. Refine and improve Travel Demand Model Network and revise Traffic Analysis Zones.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Being a small agency cost of hardware, software, and maintenance is the biggest challenge.2. Lack of dedicated resources and funding for GIS3. Meeting demands and expectations within a small agency context.

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Other Associations and Councils 2012 Agency Roll Call

Mountaineer Area Rescue GroupAgency Name: Contact Name: Don Ferguson ([email protected])URL: http://www.sargroup.info

What is your agency's GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping?The Mountaineer Area Rescue Group (MARG) is a wilderness search and rescue group based in Monongalia County and responds to missing person incidents throughout the mid-Atlantic area. MARG has been heavily influential in the development of procedures/processes for the use of GIS to manage wilderness search and rescue operations.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Emergency management, disaster response, Operations Research, effort allocation and planning.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? MARG is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization. Membership is open and there is a significant need for those with GIS experience.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: MARG was one of the founding members of the GIS for SAR working group that consists of members of the volunteer SAR community, the National Park Service and software developers (ESRI public safety division). MARG has a very close relationship with ESRI and is a recipient of a non-profit grant from ESRI.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward? None.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector: MARG was one of the founding members of the GIS for SAR working group that consists of members of the volunteer SAR community, the National Park Service and software developers (ESRI public safety division). MARG has a very close relationship with ESRI and is a recipient of a non-profit grant from ESRI.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Presentation at the 2012 Association of American Geographers Conference.2. Provided geospatial analysis and support for approximately 20 multi-day missions.3. Developed MapSAR Extended version. ArcGIS application built for managing wilderness SAR

operations.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Provided greater level of support and analysis for SAR operations both in and out of response

area.2. Communication of SQL database for greater integration of management tools (asset / responder

tracking).3. Improvements to the MapSAR Extended tool and develop user manual.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Trained personnel.2. Availability of geospatial data.

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The Nature Conservancy, West Virginia ChapterAgency Name: The Nature Conservancy, West Virginia Chapter Contact Name: Ruth Thornton ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 637-0160 x 102URL: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/westvirginia/index.htm

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. We use GIS extensively for our conservation work to determine the best areas to target for protection and restoration activities and most efficiently use our limited resources. The extent of our digital mapping is the state of West Virginia.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?We are the primary steward for Nature Conservancy Preserves within West Virginia.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? We use any statewide datasets that allow us to determine the current condition and potential stressors to natural areas to assist us in our prioritization of areas to target for conservation.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:We are currently working with the WV DEP and EPA on a West Virginia Watershed Assessment Pilot Project, for which we gather multiple statewide datasets to determine priorities for restoration and protection activities. The anticipated completion date of the project is April 2013, at which time we will have an interactive web tool available online for the general public.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Update to the Nature Conservancy Preserves2. Gathering statewide datasets to determine the quality of and stressors to watersheds for our WV

Watershed Assessment Project3. Use GIS to prioritize HUC12 watersheds for mitigation project prioritization for WV's In-Lieu Fee

Program

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue to provide up-to-date versions of The Nature Conservancy Preserves to the general public2. Continue to gather relevant GIS datasets to prioritize conservation activities throughout West

Virginia

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WV Association of Geospatial ProfessionalsAgency Name: WV Association of Geospatial Professionals (WVAGP)Contact Name: Robert Shaffer, Past President, WV Association of Geospatial ProfessionalsURL: http://www.wvagp.org

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:This association was organized on March 15, 2007 to promote and support geospatial professionals in the effective use and sharing of geospatial information and related resources throughout the state of West Virginia. It provides a forum for the geospatial community to communicate the value of geospatial information to citizens and decision-makers.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?None.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Members of WVAGP include representatives from local, state and federal agencies, educational and research institutions, the private sector, and other professional organizations. Membership benefits include:

REPRESENTATION : Members have an opportunity to represent a unified state voice on geospatial information and technology issues.

COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION: Members network with other professionals through meetings, workshops, newsletters, listserv, etc.

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Members are provided opportunities for professional development, continuing education, and certification.

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH: Members promote the understanding of geospatial information and technology to organizations and the public in West Virginia.

LEADERSHIP: Members are encouraged to seek leadership roles, mentor other GIS professionals, and advance the mission of WVAGP through dedicated service and a high degree of professionalism. Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:WVAGP coordinates with numerous public and commercial organizations to organize and sponsor GIS training. WVAGP is a non-voting member of the WV GIS Policy Council and periodically meets with the WV Society of Professional Surveyors on issues of common interest. WVAGP is presently working on K-12 initiatives.

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Top geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Sponsored over 20 training workshops and courses.

2. Approved a resolution that recognizes the GIS Certificate Institute (GISCI) as the organization capable of providing a complete certification program to the broad spectrum of GIS professionals in the West Virginia GIS community.

3. Hosted biennial 2012 WV GIS Conference.

4. WV Society of Professional Surveyors became an allied member. 5. Created listerves for addressing and cadastral mappers.

6. Assisted in the creation of a statewide cadastral business plan.

Top three geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Continue to sponsor training events that benefit the membership.

2. Explore WVAPG becoming a URISA chapter.3. Creation of a statewide cadastral map layer and acquisition of new statewide, high-resolution

digital orthophotography.

Describe the most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.): 1. Identifying effective communication venues for a broad and diverse membership and for whose

members reside throughout the region.

2. Soliciting administrative management services to sustain the association (e.g., web site maintenance, conference management, mail drop).

3. Attracting dedicated board members, officers, committee chairs, and others to volunteer their time and support for the organization’s mission.

4. Presenting a clear and unified voice on geospatial issues and goals.5. Transition of duties of President, Secretary, and Treasurer to new board members.

WV GIS Policy CouncilAgency Name: WV Dept. of CommerceContact Name: Tony Simental ([email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 558-4218URL: http://www.gis.wv.gov/policycouncil/Pages/default.aspx

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:The State GIS Policy Council created by Executive Order 4-93 (EO 4-93), oversees the development and implementation of West Virginia's GIS Program, and is chaired by the Department of Commerce Cabinet Secretary. Executive Order 10-10 better defines the duties and responsibilities of the Council and those of the State GIS Steering Committee. This council was created to optimize the benefits of GIS technology for the state into the future. The Council is comprised of executive leaders from state departments, local government, and the GIS professional community. The State GIS Steering Committee, chaired by the State GIS Coordinator, provides Council with technical advice.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?

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This council was created to optimize the benefits of GIS technology for the state into the future.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide? Oversight of Statewide GIS and Remote Sensing projects and initiatives.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts?The Council is comprised of executive leaders from state departments, local government, and the GIS professional community. This Council holds quarterly open meetings.

Top three geospatial accomplishment in the past year:1. Approved Statewide GIS Strategic Plan2. Assisted in the development of Executive Order 10-10

3. Reviewed Statewide Land Information Systems Business Plan

Top geospatial goal for the coming year:1. Review and Approve Statewide LiDAR and Imagery Business Plan

2. Review State GIS job classification and make recommendations to Division of Personnel3. Participate in the implementation of the Statewide Land Information Systems

Business Plan

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WV Infrastructure and Jobs Development CouncilAgency Name: Infrastructure and Jobs Development CouncilContact Name: Michael Duminiak ([email protected])URL: http://gis.wvinfrastructure.com

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:To support the IJDC through quality geospatial analysis of proposed projects throughout West Virginia and work cooperatively with related agencies to share data.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?Water and wastewater systems within the State.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?A public webgis site provides view, mark-up, analysis and print functionality and through partnership with DEP, our data is shared via web services.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? Our data is shared for viewing publicly and can help various agencies, communities, companies and individuals identify and plan water and wastewater related needs and projects.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:With the assistance of utilities across the State, all of the data was compiled by Thrasher Engineering and made available through the web interface developed by CDM Smith and integrated into our website and database through Dreamcatcher Creative and Solutions Design Group. Additional map layer data and assistance was provided by DEP and the Office of the State GIS Coordinator. DEP is also assisting in making our data available through web services to any entity that has need for it.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past two years:1. Compiling statewide water and wastewater spatial data.2. Deploying a public webgis site making data and tools available to the public.3. Cooperating with other agencies to share data effectively Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Enhance our dataset by filling in remaining data gaps.2. Complete statewide analysis of unserved areas.3. Develop policies for ongoing maintenance and updates to our dataset.

Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.:1. Obtaining data from utilities in a timely manner reflecting any changes.2. Developing policies for ongoing maintenance and updates to our dataset.3. Standardize internal products for use by the IJDC members to assist in project evaluation.

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WV Society of Professional SurveyorsAgency Name: West Virginia Society of Professional SurveyorsContact Name: James R. Witte, PS (mailto:[email protected])Contact Phone: (304) 645-1052URL: http://www.wvsps.org/

Your agency’s GIS mission statement and geographic extent for digital mapping:Recognizing that the service to the public and the land surveying profession is a fundamental obligation of the Professional Land Surveyor, the West Virginia Society of Professional Surveyors dedicates itself to the promotion and protection of the profession of land surveying as a social and economic influence vital to the welfare of the community and the State of West Virginia.

For what geospatial data is your agency the primary or supplementary steward?As members of an organization of surveying professionals, we strive to see that the public is served by the creation of legal documents, plats and descriptions, of land ownership that when recorded in the County Courthouses aid all concerned parties.

What geospatial services or products does your organization provide?Support and community for our members and the profession is our primary purpose.

How can the statewide geospatial community participate in or benefit from your mapping efforts? It must be realized through communication and education that the practice of boundary surveying and the preparation of legal documents is not only subject to the rules of mathematics and other exact sciences, but is also subject to legal principles and law that may vary between jurisdictions.

Describe any significant cooperative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, education and research institutions, or the private sector:WVSPS chapters work with agencies, such as the county assessors and county surveyors across the state to improve publicly available land ownership data.

Top 3 geospatial accomplishments in the past year:1. Strengthening our communications with the GIS community by creating a liaison position

between the WVSPS and WVAGP.2. Providing continuing education seminars and workshops on technical subjects to interested

professionals and the general public and more advanced management seminars for those developing GIS.

3. Individual Chapter projects such as the maintainence of a Cooperative CORS, aiding educational programs in the area, and providing scholarships to those interested in the surveying and mapping fields.

Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:1. Become more active in areas of GIS outside the field of boundary surveying.

2. Support GIS education within the college level curriculum by communicating real-world problems and needs to the educational community.

3. Continue to offer GIS and small scale mapping orientated seminars and workshops.

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Describe the three most significant geospatial challenges for your organization (technological, organizational, etc.):1. Creating an atmosphere of cooperation between stakeholders and agencies.

2. Education of users as to the limitations of any technology or tool.3. Promotion of the proper use of new methods and systems.

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