Federal Geographic Coordinating Committee of California
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Federal Geographic Coordinating Committee of California
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MINUTES
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Next Meeting: March 2, 2007
Time: 9-Noon
Where: Federal Center, Cottage Way
USGS Activities Presentation: (Acrobat PDF) Carol Ostergren, USGS CA Round table: Tim (Census): latest version of tiger line should be released any day now. Check the website. Latest ones completed, 22 total have been released for CA. Whole bunch should show up on this next release or the one following.
Tim reviewed tiger updates; releases are done twice a year, there is some lag time; don.t always follow the release schedule; repositioned tiger files come back from contractor, go through QA/QC, upload sometimes have some snags. 2006 second edition will be the last tiger line file, moving to oracle based system from the older in-house system; new formats will be shapefiles, tiger gml, web-based map server. Position for geographic specialist closed last week, new process for hiring, moving to wider publicly open jobs; another specialist should be announced in December.
Marti (NGS): still working toward readjust of every horizontal control point across the country, based on International Terrestrial Reference System. Facing similar issues on security, encryption, etc. strange times, no excessive travel, operating under continuing resolution, difficult to operate; they have moved to pay banding, many questions on how it works in the future, pay cannot go down, but not sure how merit-based step increases work (check back in a year on how this is working).
John (Resources): Intermap attempting to market to state agencies (DWR, Caltrans). Also approached the Governor.s chief of staff, John polled a few people looking for some response from state agencies to vouch for quality and need, John responded that we have varying needs and would want to acquire any needed data competitively. Questions on how licensing would work are unanswered. Please talk directly to John for questions on the Intermap dialog.
Caltrans also progressing on a statewide purchase of Teleatlas for stripped down roads for the state for all governmental agency use; with a public domain version to be released after 3 years.
Council strategic planning is progressing, John will extract the small part that is the vision and strategic points thus far to distribute to fgc3/cmcc; the group will be pursuing CAP grant for next series of regional workshops to further develop strategies. Resources will also be applying for a CAP grant under a different platform
Robin (CDF): major one-year roll out effort for Fire Hazard mapping reflects fuel load and proximity to structures, fire perimeters. Effort has begun, local pilots with counties, draft data for 20 counties is complete, may be available to anyone who wants it; pdf map of each county; immediate need, not sure of updates in the future, assume we will not get feedback from local agencies, as locals can do what they want with the data and there is no requirement to report changes back. Once again tried to gather up parcels data across the state; only 3 counties not completed (Colusa, Alameda, and Del Norte). Some counties share only linework and APN; some share more attributes (Santa Clara and orange still tough to get).
100k county boundary errors can be major (Kern Ventura??).should these be fixed?? Should be pretty easy to fix. Robin could do this if there is agreement to fix this. Should work with state lands.
Another issue moving to ArcGIS, islands show up as errors, review and override the rules, mark as exceptions or keep as separate feature class. 20,000 rocks/islands, may or may not have ownership, state parks and DFG also have management responsibility. CA coastal commission has jurisdiction, and has adjusted at 24k scale (Jonathon Van Coops). Islands show up from different sources that did not show on the original 7.5 min quads. This and the issue of what should represent the shore line will present some challenges for the committee. Various datasets are not incorporated, shoreline issues as well. Need to reconvene a county boundary group.needs to have representation across the government spectrum.
Paul (OES): refer to ppt
FS is adding geographic coordinates/names for all buildings in FS lands.
Paul reviewed the actions underway by the Homeland Security data model CA GIS Council working group. Ray (CERES): had a great vacation in Hawaii. Full set of NAIP (1.7 tb) dataset has been delivered to state funding partners and is now in distribution to federal partners. Posting to CASIL late Dec or early Jan.; Ray also trying to put up an ims for NAIP. Will have some compression and alternative formats. Barbara (USBR): habitat cover urban growth change mapping effort in the valley is being collected.
Bill Perry (USGS, Biology): recent interest in avian influenza.USGS BRD is generating maps using satellite telemetry, publishing via worldwind and googleearth; automating the process, daily updates, birds (whooper swan, swan goose) banded in Mongolia, now flying south, tracking migration.
Paul OES has pro version for Google Earth (arc to earth--$100). Look at ARC explorer.free. Also RSS, Really Simple Syndication, which is open source) feed out to internet and display in variety of clients. Huge spatial inaccuracy in using google earth as a base. Comment: Google Earth also does not support elevations below sea level. NAIP compressed are now a base layer in Google Earth; hard to tell which layer is on top of which layer, of course, no way to look at metadata.
BIA (Jamie): still cut off from the world; the rest of us are following suit. Of note, reservation road data is generally not incorporated into tiger enhanced files due to various circumstances. Tim mentioned that Census tries to cooperative with tribes to provide updated center lines within reservations. This cooperation has been mixed.
Rich (USFS): stole Bill Silva from BIA, he.s excited to be on a connected computer again. Chris Fisher is on a 4-month detail as the Georgetown ranger district El Dorado Forest. Lots of work on geographic names (over 20% of state), every FS shack out there. Releasing the work on north coast forest bill, working with BLM on final release. Route designation big effort right now. Using teleatlas spaghetti, FS has just GPSed all forest roads, don.t have another dataset for other federal/county/local roads.what is the best dataset? Tiger?
Rich is going to USDA planning meeting in Salt Lake City.
Robin has a good connected and named road database (CAD based) for their direct protection area, not central valley, not urban, not USFS areas.patchy but mostly central coast and foothills. Not always highly accurate, but routable. Dave (EPA, water program): moving toward manage resource activities by 6-level watershed, effort to georeference impaired water bodies, and ultimately all water bodies, combine with other data down the road. Many sources of data, big project, but a lot done in specific areas. (EPA water information is linked through the NGIS names and directly drops user into EPA watershed database, and can also link into state watershed information.) BDEN (Bay Delta Exchange Network) allows download of water quality data from a variety of sources (like DWR, SFEI). Get link from Dave.
Dave Hansen (BOR): operating under continuing resolution. Bay Delta, Delta Vision, should be hearing something soon, San Joaquin river restoration program, state is moving ahead, gathering information about data available, all these loosely related to the great places initiative. Interior effort on (different from geospatial line of business) computer enterprise architecture effort, (which does not incorporate GIS, but how does this align with the GLOB?).
Carol (USGS):
Current status of imagery partnerships:
CAP Grants for FY07 David Guiliano US EPA 415-947-4133 Dave Hansen US BOR 916-978-5268 Marti Ikehara NGS 916-227-7325 Donna Knifong USGS - Water 916-278-3081 Tim McMonagle Census Bureau 818-267-7124 timothy.william.mcmonagle@census.gov Bob Milton US BLM 916-978-4562 Carol Ostergren USGS - Mapping 916-278-9510 costergren@usgs.gov Bill Perry USGS - Biology 707-678-0682 x619 william_perry@usgs.gov Jamie Schubert BIA 916-978-6053 fax only 916-978-6014 Barbara Simpson USBR 916-978-5031 Rich Spradling FS Region 5 707-562-8883 rspradling@fs.fed.us John Ellison Resources Agency 916-653-2238 john.ellison@resources.ca.gov Ray McDowell Resources Agency 916-653-7142 Robin Marose CDF 916-324-1646 Paul Veisze OES 916-845-8542 paul.veisze@oes.ca.gov
FGC3/CMCC December 1, 2006 meeting
Recorded by Carol Ostergren
Partner Date of collect Coverage Status
Modesto (b/w) 2006 urban delivered
Stockton 2006 urban flown, could use partners
Fresno 2006 urban completed
Sacramento 2005-6 urban completed
San Francisco Co 2006-7 full county could use partners
Santa Clara County 2006 full county completed
San Mateo County 2005 full county completed
Alameda County 2006 full county completed
Napa County 2007 full county could use partners
Los Angeles 2006 full county delivered
San Diego 2005 urban completed
Riverside 2007 urban could use partners
San Bern County 2006 and 7 urban 06 delivered
Bakersfield (b/w) 2004 and 2007 urban 04 delivered
Oxnard/SB 2007 full Ventura could use partners
coastal Santa B
Orange County 2007 80% of county not sure
Timeline:
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Other announcements:
NDOP meeting.Oct., 2006
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