Commonwealth of PA

GIS CoordinationDelaware GIS Conference

20 April 2004

Jim KnudsonDirector, Geospatial Technologies

PA GIS/GT Barnraising

Starting to build GIS capabilities across the Commonwealth

State of PA GISGIS Coordination

• PA GT Barnraising Presentation– History of GIS in PA– GIS Coordination– State Initiatives– Coordination with Adjacent States– Questions

GIS in PA History• Early technology adoption by DEP,

PENNDOT, DCNR• Several counties used state agency

data to start GIS operations• Healthy GIS Industry grew up around

public sector GIS initiatives• Today, PA is home to many excellent

GIS and photogrammetry service firms• Best data today is created by local

government• Lots of e-Gov geospatial web

deployments today

Should be online in April 2004

GIS Coordination• First State GIS Coordinator appointed

10/20/2003• Primary Initiatives

– GIS Data Standards – PGDSS– GIS Job Classifications Need Review– Reduction of duplication– Commonwealth, Enterprise Coordination– Homeland Security GIS– Enterprise Assets – PAMAP, Routing,

Geocoding, Citrix for desktop GIS– Collaboration with all partners, including

adjacent states

The Case for GT Governance in Pennsylvania

• 19 agencies using GIS (out of 44 agencies under Governor’s Jurisdiction)

• No coordination of state agencies• 67 Counties, 2566 municipalities, little

cooperation or coordination• $10M+/year spent by agencies on contractors

• No GIS data standards• Overlapping efforts at state and local level

and in multiple state agencies• No formal data stewardship• No current statewide imagery asset

19 Agency GIS Users Today1. Administration2. Aging3. Agriculture4. Community/Economic

Development5. Conservation and

Natural Resources6. Environmental

Protection7. Education8. Emergency Management9. Fish and Boat10. Game Commission

11. Health12. Historical and Museum

Commission13. Insurance14. Labor and Industry15. Military and Veterans

Affairs (PA Guard)16. PENNDOT17. PENNVEST18. Public Welfare19. State Police

GT Guiding Principles• Create data once, use it a bunch• Reduce overlap and duplication of efforts• Support the Governor’s initiatives• Provide Homeland Security support• Create and communicate standards initiatives• Maintain current knowledge of agency

operations and business• Develop an enterprise strategic plan• Support agencies and advance their capabilities• Identify, prioritize, and build enterprise assets

and resources (e.g. imagery, geocoding solution)

• Promote state collaboration with local governments for best data

• Seek sustainable funding sources and achieve sustainability of operations

GT Governance Model

Geospatial Steering Committee (GSC)(CIOs, CTOs, or Agency GIS Coordinators,and External Organization Representatives)

Chair: Jim KnudsonVice Chair: GTC Chair

Geospatial Advisory Committee (GAC)(Executives, Policy, or Designee)

Chair: Art StephensVice Chair: Jim Knudson

Governor’s Office of AdministrationOffice for Information TechnologyBureau of Geospatial Technologies

Jim Knudson

CCAP(Counties Organization)

President - Erick CoolidgeIT - Rita Reynolds

PaMAGIC(PA Interested Parties)

AcademiaConsultants

Federal Govt.Local Govt.State Govt.SurveyorsVendors

Geospatial TechnologiesCouncil (GTC)

(Agencies)

Chair - By Election(Nancy Richwine)

Vice Chair - By Election(Ebby Abraham)

OIT/Geospatial Technologies Governance Model Draft

Policy, Strategy

Strategic Direction and Prioritization

Outreach andConsulting

Requests

Requests

Requests

Strategic InitiativesPolicy Decisions

Goals and ObjectivesHighest Priorities

BimonthlyMeetings

MonthlyMeetings

MonthlyMeetings

Identification of DeliverablesGoal and Objective Prioritization

Tactical PlanningImplementation Goals

Implementation SchedulesReview of DeliverablesEnterprise LicensingHomeland Security

GIS Data ClearinghouseAgency Data Sharing

GIS Data ClearinghouseData Standards

Mapping StandardsTraining Needs/ProgramReusable Components

Enterprise Assets

Research

Research

CommonwealthAgencies

Standards,Consulting,

Coordination,Outreach

HS GIS TaskForce

Standards,Priorities

Standards

Data Definitions - PGDSS, HSIPGIS Data Standards for PAGIS Enterprise Architecture

Governor’s Office of AdministrationOffice for Information Technology

Bureau of Geospatial TechnologiesJim Knudson

Economic Development andInteragency Landuse /

Sustainable DevelopmentInitiatives

Participation in Sustainable DevelopmentMonthly Meetings

Participation in Economic DevelopmentMapping Initiative

Communications

OIT/GIS WebsiteQuarterly Newsletters (2004)

Agency MeetingsCCAP Meetings

PaMAGIC MeetingsGTC Meetings

Regional Group MeetingsCounty Meetings

City Meetings

Enterprise GIS Resources

New 3m Statwide DEMUSDA 2004 1m CIR Statewide Flight

Imagery PartnershipPAMAP Imagery

Citrix Server Farm for Desktop GISLicense Pool

Intranet/Internet Geocoding ServerIntranet GIS Resources

(Web Server, Mapping Server, Database)GIS Training

Homeland Security/IncidentResponse/Public Safety

Homeland Security GIS Task ForceCritical Infrastructure Needs Identification

HS GIS Agency LettersHS GIS Agency Data Stewardship

PEMA Yearly GIS Data Layer UpdateIncident Response GISPSP IIMS Involvement

Regional Joint Terrorism Task ForcesGIS Strategy and Vision

Grants

IAGT Grants (Imagery, Workshop)Homeland Security Grants

Grant Response GIS Standards for NewRequired Deliverables

Enterprise Licensing

Commercial Data Licensing (GDT?)ESRI GIS Software

Address Geocoding SolutionRouting Solution

Geospatial Technologies CoordinationAgency GIS Meetings

Contract ReviewMulti-Agency Project Participation

GTC LeadershipFederal Agency Coordination

Legislative CoordinationNeighboring States Coordination

Coordination with PaMAGICCoordination with CCAP

Local Government Coordination/CollaborationGIS Governance

GIS Job ClassificationsEnterprise Geospatial Strategic Plan

OIT/Bureau of Geospatial Technologies Initiatives

GT 2004 Initiatives

Data Standards• PA Geospatial Data Sharing Standard

(PGDSS)– PaMAGIC has pursued best practices and

geospatial data standards for 5+ years– January 2004 meeting with PaMAGIC and I-

Team members to discuss final changes to draft geospatial standards

– Initial standards reflect The National Map framework data layers

– PGDSS v1.0 to be completed by 5/31/04– Pilot/prototype project to test standards in

2004, seeking FGDC CAP grant

PAMAP• The Pennsylvania Map

– State should procure orthophotography to control standards and ability to share with everyone

– Locals create and maintain the most accurate and current geospatial data

– State will provide orthophotography and ask counties to share geospatial data sets

– Data will be provided in PGDSS formats– Goal is statewide coverage every 3 years

GT Coordination• Review vendor licensing issues – ESRI,

GDT, find ways to reduce costs• Determine common agency and local

government needs and help solve them• Homeland Security GIS needs a

common backend GIS database• Agencies need help, counties and

municipalities need help also• Coordination occurs at all levels –

federal, state, local, private industry, academia

GT Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise GT Architecture– Citrix for Desktop– OIT intranet servers for web GIS applications

• Database Server (ArcSDE - SQL Server or Oracle?)• Mapping Server (ArcIMS)• Application server – agency hosting agreements• Benefits – allow agencies application redundancy,

new agencies to deploy first web GIS applications• Use of same database ArcSDE server between Citrix

and intranet applications– Application Servers – Geocoding, Routing,

specialized applications should be centralized and made available to all agencies

– Create geospatial web services – ArcIMS and OGC compliant interfaces – WMS, WFS, OpenLS

GT Needs and Responses• Issue: Standards

– State needs data standards to allow vertical data sharing between locals and the state in support of PAMAP (also state to feds)

– Data on PASDA Clearinghouse is in Shapefile format, but not standardized. Every data set requires a different workflow once downloaded in order to put it into the user’s required format

– State grants to local partners should have a project data standard so that project location data can be provided back to the state in GIS format

• Standards Initiatives – Creation of Pennsylvania Geospatial Data Sharing Standard

(PGDSS) to facilitate data sharing between counties and the state as part of the PAMAP program

– Standardization of GIS Data Shapefile map projections and datum for all datasets on the PA Spatial Data Access (PASDA) website so that only have one (known) workflow for all data sets downloaded to integrate into user’s system

– Definition of state grant program GIS data standards for funded projects so we can build a grant information system and visualize where we have spent state funds on local projects

GT Needs and Responses• Issue: Homeland Security/Incident

Response System GIS– Need to have a consistent GIS for all HS/Incident

Response systems in order to establish a common operating picture

– Need to work on creating Critical Infrastructure GIS data layers

– Need to define real-time GIS information needs and address enterprise-wide

• HS/ER System GIS Initiatives – Established a Homeland Security GIS Task Force

– Multiple state agencies and one county GIS/Emergency Management participant

– Maintaining the GIS Critical Infrastructure master spreadsheet

– Will operate as a think tank to provide input to programs

GT Needs and Responses• Issue: Homeland Security/Incident

Response System GIS – continued• HS/ER System GIS Initiatives - continued

– Design a new GIS data architecture for all agencies to use– Quit building complete copies of all data inside each

agency– Build a GIS distributed data server infrastructure where

data is stored once and accessed by all agencies (at CTC, redundant servers)

– Agency servers only need to contain agency-specific data– Critical Infrastructure Data Creation

– Assigning agency data stewardship– Trying to get PAMAP data sharing program with counties

going– Examining external options to help solve the data

creation/maintenance problems– Real-Time GIS Data

– Exploring Weather data – looking at a solution for NWS and GIS real-time weather plus web-browser access to weather imager and forecasts for entire commonwealth, including county EMAs

GT Needs and Responses• Issue: Build Enterprise GIS Assets to solve common

problems– Every agency using GIS and many that aren’t using GIS have an

address geocoding and address standardization/validation problem– Need a routing capability for navigation purposes – e.g. State Parks– Many GIS agencies have duplicated sets of boundaries – zipcodes,

counties, etc– There is a need for statewide imagery and a higher accuracy DEM– Some agencies cannot afford GIS Hardware and Software

• Enterprise GIS Assets Initiatives (Enterprise Server Farm)– Create a Geocoding/Geolocating Server for the Commonwealth– Create a Routing Server for the Commonwealth– CTC/ESF Server Farm Enterprise GIS Assets

• Citrix deployment of ESRI desktop software – pilot project• Enterprise intranet GIS mapping server environment for hosted

applications.  Agencies will sign hosting agreement to use resources.

• Build geospatial data architecture to store data once that all agencies can use (e.g. Imagery server, basemap server, homeland security server, etc.)

– Digital Imagery for PA –• Statewide USDA 1m CIR Cost Sharing – USDA/FSA NAIP program• PAMAP - $4.5M/year for first 3 years to complete entire state

GT Needs and Responses• Issue: Sustainable Funding

– Funding for agencies, for counties, and for enterprise initiatives are uncertain and we usually end up with shortfalls

– There are many enterprise opportunities for improvements, but they require sustainable funding

– Agency dollars could be pooled under OIT/GT office to get volume discounts

• Sustainable Funding Initiatives – OIT has made GIS a priority by establishing the GT office

and including GIS as part of the strategic planning, agency profiles, and Communities of Practice and Legislature are looking at sustainable funding for PAMAP

– There are some opportunities for DHS funding– There are some other smaller grants or partnership

opportunities working with independent organizations, foundations, and the feds

– GT will keep beating the bushes looking for funding opportunities

Agency Roles for GT Governance• Executive sponsorship within each agency, so that

executive staff understand what the capabilities are, why GT is important, to establish the GT Governance structure, and that we need action now

• Identify opportunities for increased effectiveness in resource utilization – staff, IT resources, training needs

• Identify the key issues that each agency is facing regarding GT

• Designate resources to serve on the Steering Committee

• Attend the monthly GTC (user) meetings• Funding for enterprise approaches (PAMAP,

consolidated licenses, etc.)• Work to developed a coordinated GIS effort within

each agency

Adjacent States Coordination• Pennsylvania shares

borders with Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, New Jersey

• Cross-border issues are important and cooperation/collaboration are required

• Real-time data sharing is needed and desirable

• POCs need to be established

• Better and more frequent communications

Questions?

Contact InformationJim Knudson (pronounce the K)

Director, Geospatial TechnologiesOffice for Information Technology

Governor’s Office of Administration210 Finance BuildingHarrisburg, PA 17120

http://www.oit.state.pa.us/BGTjknudson@state.pa.us

(717) 346-1538

PA GIS ConferenceMay 10-11

Harrisburg Hilton HotelTheme: Building Our Geospatial Future

Plenary Speakers:Day 1 – Jack Dangermond, ESRIDay 2 – Jim Knudson, State GIS

CoordinatorWebsite: http://www.pagisconference.org