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Minnesota Geospatial Information OfficeA Program Area of MN.IT Services

Nancy RaderMinnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo)

Alison SlaatsMN.IT @ Department of Agriculture & Board of Animal Health

Introducing the Minnesota

Geospatial Commons

MN Dept. of Health GIS User Group, October 14, 2014

Presented at South Central MN GIS User Group Meeting March 16, 2017

gisdata.mn.gov


Agenda

What is the MN Geospatial Commons?

Overview of site features

Publishing to the Commons

Technical foundation

Invitation to collaborate


What is the Minnesota Geospatial

Commons?

A collaborative public website

where users can access

and publishers can share

geospatial resources

about Minnesota


A collaborative public website

where users can access

and publishers can share


about Minnesota

collaborative


about Minnesota

public website

users can access

publishers can share

Commons will also be a place to share

ideas, get news and stay in touch with

the geospatial community in Minnesota

Current situation: many websites

Inefficient• for users: no central browse list; different interfaces and features

• for publishers: maintaining separate sites; sites becoming outdated

Commons will replace

and improve upon these sites

Why another GIS site?!?

MnGeo Data Clearinghouse

and

MnDOT BaseMap

Phased approach

Initial release

of Commons

June 30

Migration of state agency

and Met Council resources

Fall 2014

Existing sites will be retired

by each organization

Growing range of partnersState, regional, local, federal and

tribal governments; education,

non-profit and private sectors

2015 and beyond

How do we use the Commons?

EvaluateFind AccessStay

Connected


Connected

Find resources using

• Search box (type in search term)

• Browse resources by organization and category

• Filter resources by organization, category, keyword

or tag, geography, format

county

Find by organization



Find by category


Connected

Filter resources by organization, category,

geography, tag, format


Review resource record to evaluate resources


Connected







Access resources and related files


Connected

• See a preview graphic

• Download GIS data

• Open a printable map

• Connect to web services

• Link to applications


Connected


Connected

Follow resources, organizations and categories


Connected

Share resources on social media


Connected

Comment on resources

A publisher is an organization that shares their

geospatial resources on the Commons

Publisher requirements

• Publisher should be an organization, not an individual

• Publisher should be the authoritative source for the resources they are

publishing

• Publisher needs to provide documented and organized resources

– Metadata

– Standardized folder structure (Geospatial Data Resource Site)

Be a publisher

Why publish your resources on the Commons?

• More people will find your resources

• More resources will make the site more useful

• You could eliminate your organization’s GIS download page

Please join in!!

Be a publisher

*

*We’re improving the publishing process, and will be

ready for publishers in early 2015 – stay tuned!

The Commons is built on a strong foundation

• Internal Infrastructure – DNR’s GDRS system• ensures the whole system and the data resources in it

will be kept as up-to-date as possible

• Commons website built using CKAN • widely used open source portal software

• Resource content• data, services, applications, maps

• metadata

• standards

Technical Notes

Invite you to visit the site

Become familiar with its features

Understand that it is evolving

• most of the effort to date has been to build the system and curate its contents

• usability and interface design is now receiving more attention

Let us know:

• what you think

• if you have resources that could be published

Ultimately, the Commons will become what we as a community make it

Invitation to collaborate

Project Owner: Dan Ross, MnGeo

Project Manager: Chris Cialek, MnGeo (Kirk Breen, Joe Liebler)

Technical Team

• Mike Dolbow, MnGeo (Ag)

• David Fawcett, PCA

• Karl Hillstrom, Ag/BAH

• Andrew Koebrick MnGeo

• Brent Lund, MnGeo

• Susanne Maeder, MnGeo

• Nancy Rader, MnGeo

• Alison Slaats, Ag/BAH

• Zeb Thomas, DNR

• Hal Watson, DNR

Project Team

Questions?

gisdata.mn.gov

Documents

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