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Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has been gaining large strides over the past few years in the GIS sector. VGI is becoming more then just geotagged photographs on Flickr and mashups of Google Earth and Google Maps. It has become part of many successful organizations’’ strategies for sharing data, engaging potential collaborators, and gathering public input. This presentation will explore three project overviews of how VGI practices have provided the foundation for engaging the public to become better partners: from data sharing through the City of Seattle Open Data initiatives, collaboration for project prioritization with the Office of Species Conservation, to gathering historical property information for the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.
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Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI) – More than
just dots on a map…
NWGIS User Conference
Spokane, Washington
September 17, 2010
Chris Bellusci
Scot McQueen
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Agenda
Introduction
GeoEngineers Overview
What is VGI?
VGI – Gathering Public Input
VGI – Transparency in Government
VGI - Framework for Collaboration
Questions/Answers
GeoEngineers - Earth Sciences + Technology
Energy
Water & Natural
Resources
Development &
Redevelopment
Transportation
Federal
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Market
Industries:
Agriculture,
Tribes, Forestry,
Mining,
Environmental
Management,
Conservation
· Emergency
Management
· Executive
Dashboards
· Land
Management
Systems
· Asset
Management
· Predictive
Modeling
Market
Industries:
Banking/Financial
Services, Real
Estate,
Developers,
· Land
Management
· Demographic
Studies
· Asset
Management
· Predictive
Modeling
Market
Industries:
· Marine Ports
· Railroads
· DOTS
· Port Enviro
Remediation
Solution
· Asset Mgmt
System
· Corridor
Routing
systems
Market
Industries:
BLM, HLS,
Defense, Public
Safety, Law
Enforcement
· Emergency
Management
· COP
Dashboards
· Computer
Aided Dispatch
· Asset
Management
· Predictive
Modeling
Market
Industries:
· Electric Utilities
· Oil and Gas
· Pipelines
· Renewable
Energy
· Corridor
Routing
· Smart Grid
· Incident
Management
· Vegetation
Managment
Market
Industries:
Information
Technology,
Business
Infrastructure,
System
Integration/
Implementation
· GIS/IT
Strategic Plans
· System
Integration
· Data
Management
· Planning/
Analysis
· Operational
Awareness
Transportation
Market
Energy
Market
Applied
Technology
Water &
Natural
Resources
Development &
Redevelopment
Federal
Market
GeoEngineers - Earth Sciences + Technology
Applied Technology – Solutions
GeoPredict
Watershed
Prioritization
Environmental Remediation
Mobile
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is the
harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate
geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals
(Goodchild, 2007).
Geotagging
Geosocial networking
Collaborative mapping
Spatial Crowdsourcing
…all made feasible within the last 5 years by web
technologies
VGI – What is it?
VGI – Is it good or evil?
Better question:How can we leverage this to get important work done?
VGI – Gathering information from the public…
Budget cuts
Staff reductions
Increased Public awareness
and/or frustration
Transparency in Government
…And a “Google Generation”
VGI – Gathering
Public InputDepartment of Archaeology and
Historic Preservation
Historic Property Inventory (HPI) – Project Problem
Historic Property Inventory – Our Approach
Manage data from historic property inventory surveys
conducted by private and public entities and citizens.
Leverage “volunteer” GIS or data management concept
Over 60,000 properties in system
400 registered users (other agencies, partners,
neighborhood assoc., etc.)
Historic Property Inventory – Integration
• Text SAW is a single entry portal for applications owned/hosted by Washington State DIS
HPI is the first ArcGISServer application integrated with SAW
Historic Property Inventory – Spatial Editing
Create an inventory – look for
existing properties or add new one
Performs spatial queries to pull in
attribute data like county, PLSS,
and quad names
Historic Property Inventory – Query and Report Data
User sees “dashboard” of
their respective surveys
Each survey contains 1 or
even thousands of individual
properties or inventories.
Historic Property Inventory – Rich User Experience
It’s all about the data -
capturing rich information
supplied and maintained
by the public.
VGI – Transparency in
Government
City of Seattle
Spatial Data Sharing
City of Seattle – Project Problem
• Seattle home to multiple technology companies
• Seattle Mayor McGinn Open Data Initiative -mandates sharing all City data
• Wants to engage potential collaborators to utilize them to meet public needs
• Releases http://data.seattle.gov for tabular data but no geospatial component
City of Seattle – Project Problem
How do we best integrate the City’s GIS data into this framework to meet the Mayor’s initiative?
OneBusAway – Poster child for Mayor’s Goals
Data Sharing Workshops - Findings
1. Inadequate metadata existed for spatial data
2. Vision for data sharing “why and how” not clear to public
or internally
3. Clear path to collaboration not established – public
outreach and support needed
4. Existing data.seattle.gov lacked GIS integration
capabilities
5. No mechanism to share GIS data internally or to the
public
Data Sharing - Recommendations
1. Develop a Communication Plan for data sharing
a) Clear public communication and outreach
b) Stewardship approach of online GIS data sharing
c) Identification of intended Users (public,
expert/scientific users, developers, internal
departments)
d) Collaboration Framework – lays groundwork for
partnerships
e) Public Contests – intent and timelines
Open Data - Communication Plan
Communication Plan Embodied
Open data advertised
on initial web page
Expand concept for each user type
Example of structuring the communication of the data/ resources available
Clear communication about data maintenance and enhancements
as well as Governance issues
GIS/Spatial Data - Recommendations
1. Prioritize, consolidate, and archive GIS data
2. Develop a Role-based User access management Plan
3. Complete a minimum level of metadata – 11 key
elements
4. Optimize risk assessment process and utilize for GIS
datasets
5. Implement near- and long-term data update plans
6. Establish Hosting Capacity Requirements
Infrastructure - Recommendations
1. Utilize ESRI’s GeoPortal Extension to Extend
data.seattle.gov
a) City has ELA with ESRI
b) Extension has been implemented widely
c) Full integration with ArcGIS desktop speeding data and metadata
latency
2. Host a “Data Sharing Platform Integration” workshop
a) Include appropriate City, ESRI, and Socrata staff
b) Require software partners to participate to retain role in data
sharing at the City
c) Goal: Develop integration points between the two platforms
Make it easier to findSeattle based apps. Particularly those that are in alignment with the vision for the city.
Develop User Group Specificcommunication
Data Sharing - Platform Integration Workshop
VGI – Framework for
CollaborationIdaho Office of Species
Consvervation
Idaho Office of Species Conservation (OSC)
Business Problem – Watershed Project Prioritization
OSC – Business Problem
Prioritization Score/Report Possible Grant
Funding
Public Support through visibility
OSC – Solution Framework
•Designed to work with both hosted and cloud environments
Scalable Architecture
•Built on top of DotNetNuke Web Content Management Framework
•Open Source Framework
Web Frameworks
•Built using ESRI’s new Feature Server Editing Capabilities
ArcGIS Server 10
•Leverages DotNetNuke Security Model
•Active Directory or SQL AuthenticationSecurity
OSC – End User Involvement and Collaboration
ArcGIS Server 10 – REST Editing Framework and ArcGIS Server Silverlight API
Registered users create, modify, and report spatial content in a collaborative framework
VGI – Lessons Learned
• Have a plan and dynamic way of delivering it • Why you’re doing it,
• What you want
• How collaboration happens
• Get your data in order• Metadata – 11 key elements
• “Templates” and Design overcome “authoritative data” problems
• Engage the lawyers…
• Solid Technology Framework• Allows interaction at different levels (public, expert, developer, internal)
• Allows different solutions to come together (ESRI, Google, Socrata, etc)
• Understand Total Cost of Ownership
• Path to funding mechanisms
Discussion/Questions
Chris Bellusci
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbellusci
Scot McQueen
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scotmcqueen
Recommendations - Elements of Metadata as Applied to City of Seattle GIS Data Management
Standard Metadata Elements SPU Considerations Recommended Metadata attributes and elements.
1. Content Description (abstract, purpose)
2. Content Keywords (theme and place keywords)
3. Time Period of Content (beginning/end dates)
4. Distribution Information
User Group Identification ( which user group/s will be able to view/access the data)
5. Publishing Identification Information
Metadata management Meta management tools
Planning for strategic content keywords
Categorize content keywords
6. Currentness Reference (publication date, revision date)
7. Content Status (complete, in work, planned)
Identify update requirements and set schedule
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Metadata management tool to track, sort, update data, and to alert time-incremental data update requirements (annual updates, etc)
8. Spatial Domain(geographic domain of the data set)
Bounding Coordinates
West, East, North, South
Metadata management tools to track and manage domain information.
9. Spatial Data Information Data Projection
Data Type (vector, grid)
Data Format (Shapefile, geodatabase, etc.)
Meta data attributes
Management tool
10. Access Constraints(limits on data accessibility)
Restrictions and legal prerequisites for accessing the data set.
Implement or leverage tool components which allow for user authentication within a specified user group.
User accountability.
User contact information.
11. Use Constraints (limits on data use)
Restrictions and legal prerequisites for using the data set after access is granted.
Implement or leverage tool components which allow for user authentication within a specified user group.
User accountability.
User contact information.