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2011-10-13T22:27:00.000-05:00

IGI and Related GIS Activities

Status October 19, 2011

Due to state budget cuts this past spring, many IGI projects were delayed while we sorted out the impact. Several DNR contract workers have been moved to positions at ISU’s GIS Facility, including Zeb Squires and Jesse Soukup (geocoding) and Cody Hackney (historical orthos). Thanks to Kevin Kane and Robin McNeeley at the ISU GIS Facility for making lemonade out of lemons.

The Iowa Geocoding Project has been reorganized, with ISU GIS Facility playing a major role. We are on schedule to release 50 counties of address points and structure points for western Iowa in January. Second round of Pooled Technology funding was awarded to the project in July for $194,000, which will help finish up western Iowa and start on NE Iowa. Final application for Pooled Tech funding to finish eastern Iowa got third place in annual competition with other state IT projects. We won’t know the outcome until next June but the project now has a chance to be completed on time in two and a half years.

State GIS Service Bureau - Evan Koester hired under contract with ISU GIS Facility, and has a good start working with other state agencies to create GIS needs inventory. He is also providing one-on-one training as needed. State Agency GIS steering committee met in September and did something. Needs inventory due out in January, with business plan by July. Project runs until December 2012.

FGDC Return On Investment CAP Grant in progress. Mary Ann Stewart continues interviewing economic development agencies that are using GIS. Interesting metrics from Priority One economic development group in Cedar Rapids that may help us to estimate the benefits of increased GIS use for entire state. Funding ends December 31, final report due end of March.

FGDC Metadata CAP Grant project was finally launched with the hiring of Amy Logan of Ames to be the Metadata Outreach Coordinator for the project. She will work with local, state and federal agencies to create badly needed metadata for publicly available GIS layers, and place metadata records on the updated Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, which is getting an upgrade with ESRI Geoportal software. Metadata training classes will be offered early in 2012 and open to everyone. The hiring of Amy for this position means that there are now two GIS service bureau persons at work in Iowa, both of which are contracted through the ISU GIS Facility. Additional funding for 2 years was requested in the current Pooled Technology application.

Related GIS Projects:

USDA color 1 meter NAIP Imagery has been flown for Iowa this past summer and will shortly be available on the ISU Ortho Server and NRGIS Library. Stay tuned.

Historical Orthophotography Project continues with the release of the 1980’s collection of aerial imagery, which was flown by USGS in their National Aerial Photography Program during the early 1980’s. These images are color-infrared photography. Gregg Hadish of NRCS has a web service http://ags.gis.iastate.edu/ArcGISServer/rest/services/Ortho/ortho_1980/ImageServer
and the county files will be available shortly on the NRGIS Library and ISU Ortho Server. That leaves imagery from the 1970s and 1960s needed to complete the decadal collections.

Stream centerlines and bank break lines continue to be digitized by the Iowa Flood Center and DNR staff in Iowa CIty, for the statewide floodplain mapping project. Contact chris.kahle@dnr.iowa.gov for details.

High resolution land cover project at DNR continues. Contact pete.kollasch@dnr.iowa.gov for details.

DNR will receive an EPA Wetland Development Grant starting in January 2012. The grant will develop procedures for mapping buried tile lines and identify areas where crops are disturbed by standing water using remote sensing imagery and lidar data. Contact Jim Giglierano for details james.giglierano@dnr.iowa.gov

2011-10-10T10:46:00.000-05:00

IGIC Newsletter Oct 10, 2011

Next IGIC Quarterly Meeting Oct 19 at 10am - 3pm, Johnston Public Library

Socializing begins at 930am.

Flood Imagery of Dubuque after Heavy Rains
Joshua McNary ( jmcnary@aerialservicesinc.com)
Aerial Services Inc, has two articles about “flood” imagery taken by ASI after the 12-15” rain in Dubuque County last summer:

Iowa 4-H and GIS
David Runneals (david@runneals.com)
AMES, Iowa – Teenage 4-H scientists say they are “restoring something old with something new.” The something old is a bur oak savannah in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. The something new is geographic information systems (GIS) mapping using mobile phones.

The Iowa 4-H’ers are one of four teams of 4-H members in four states that are carrying out GIS mapping with national wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries or other ecological services offices, said Jay Staker, director of Iowa State University Extension Science, Engineering and Technology (E-SET). ISU Extension is leading the effort with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Kansas, Minnesota and New York also are involved in the project. The four states are sharing the $73,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant that funds the effort.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stated that GIS soon will become so prevalent in natural resources management that organizations without some GIS capability will be at a severe disadvantage.
Karen Viste-Sparkman, a wildlife biologist at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, was glad to receive the call from Staker. “He was working with 4-H groups and they had a grant to work on a national wildlife refuge. We got excited about it because they wanted to do GIS work … and that’s one of the things we really need more of here,” Viste-Sparkman said.

The Iowa 4-H’ers are using GIS on iPhones to map the locations of remnant bur oak and shagbark hickory trees that have been invaded by exotic non-fire tolerant trees in the wildlife refuge.
“We have an iPhone app that talks with the ISU GIS department server, so we get real-time interaction,” said 4-H Tech Team member David Runneals. “What’s cool about this project is we actually get to use technology and that we also get out in the field to get experience.”

Volunteer 4-H leader Debbie Stevens noted the need for GIS, “but a lot of folks, especially nonprofits or governmental entities cannot afford to just hire someone. Our youth in 4-H are learning real world skills. This is a professional-level occupation now. … So not only are they having fun, they’re gaining knowledge, they’re learning technology skills, information management and personal development for future careers.”
The 4-H’ers will continue to do GIS mapping over the summer months to identify the locations of as many bur oaks, hickories and other species as possible, Stevens said. Then in the winter months when the ground is frozen, the refuge staff can do maintenance, removing dead or diseased trees as well as trees that don’t belong in a bur oak savannah.

“This GIS mapping project engages 4-H youth as citizen scientists to conduct relevant research that will have an impact for both the Fish and Wildlife Service and the 4-H’ers,” Staker said. “The Fish and Wildlife Service gets data for habitat protection, conservation, restoration and other uses. The youth get opportunities to serve their states with meaningful research. They also develop skills that could lead them to pursue degrees and careers such as wildlife biology, natural resource management, science, community planning, recreation or agriculture.”

Whole Article: http://www.extension.org/pages/60718/4-hers-use-gis-on-iphones-to-map-trees-at-neal-smith-national-wildlife-refuge
Video: http://vimeo.com/22608228

IGIC Public Health Committee
Simon Geletta (Simon.Geletta@dmu.edu)
The IGIC health committee has a new member - Ms. Meghan Harris who is Executive Officer II - Data Warehouse Coordinator at the Iowa Dept of Public Health (IDPH). We hope to hold a teleconference to do some planning this coming November.

Des Moines Area Regional GIS
Anna Whipple [awwhipple@dmgov.org]
The City of Des Moines recently completed enhancements to the Des Moines Area Regional Geographic Information System (GIS) to support hazard identification and risk assessment. The Regional GIS participants included Polk County, Des Moines, and several Des Moines suburbs, and the project was funded in part through a FEMA subgrant. A consultant team from Indiana University, University of Iowa, and University of Northern Iowa was hired to assess local GIS data, to map hazards and assets in the region, and to develop a GIS-based
methodology for modeling vulnerability and estimated losses from hazards. The consultants and Regional GIS participants:

•       Developed quality local GIS data for buildings, infrastructure, facilities, and populations exposed to potential hazards
•       Deployed and trained on HAZUS-MH, FEMA’s standard GIS software for hazard risk assessment, and other applicable GIS analysis methods
•       Created processes for updating regional asset data from many sources and packaging the data in a HAZUS-ready format

HUD Grant Ideas
Herb Kuehne [hkuehne@cableone.net]
Several weeks ago, Jim Giglierano invited me to help him write a HUD grant that would enable IGIC to assist 16 southeastern Iowa counties in assembling a battery of GIS data that could be used for community development planning in the region. Jim decided that we didn’t have time to write the grant, but the idea got me started exploring other ways that IGIC might seek grant money. Health care is huge preoccupation in our culture (who wants to die?) and ways to deliver it more effectively would probably be of interest to grant-funding organizations. I’m currently researching about how IGIC might propose GIS work that would provide geographic data important for suggesting ways to deliver health care more effectively.   Collecting extensive geocoded data on residences, medical care facilities, pharmacies, grocery stores, and lots of 2010 demographic data might provide the kind of information that could then be analyzed. I sometimes feel that we don’t do enough “analysis” of the data we collect. Analysis of a complex set of data on something like rural health care delivery might really show why GIS is such a powerful tool….and why IGIC is such a great group of people, too!

Low Distortion Projections
Roger Patocka [patocka32@yourstarnet.net]
The State Land Surveyors of Iowa and the IDOT group working on LDP’s apparently reached a consensus that a 20 ppm (1:50,000) distortion design is acceptable as long as ten to twelve zones could be developed to cover the state.

This means that 20 ppm would be the maximum distortion that would be expected, however most of the LDP coverages would display less distortion. Stated differently, most of each zone coverage would have distortions between 0 to 20ppm (between 1: infinity and 1:50,000) distortions by design. Distortions of 200 ppm (1:5000) are approximately 1’ per mile. Distortions of 20 ppm (1:50,000) are approximately 0.1’ per mile (or 0.6’ per typical “township,” or 2.4’ per typical “county”).

LDP’s allow us to be more confident that we only have a maximum distortion of approximately 2.4’ that is attributable to grid to ground (g/g) projection across the distance mapped for a typical “county.”
The goal is to make GIS use more simple. The value of LDP’s will be realized if we work together to publish and use parameters for these “standard” projections.

ESRI, AutoCAD, Microstation and data collector manufacturers likely will integrate Iowa’s standard LDP zones into their products. This should allow surveyors and other GIS users to push a button to move from one projection to another without worrying about excessive distortion of their map caused by the issue of grid to ground.

Users of GIS who need precise locations for property boundaries may have needs to account for distortions beyond the designed 20 ppm LDP. Typically, as GIS and CAD displays are zoomed in, distortions become more noticeable. But by establishing datums that provide a 20 ppm maximum distortion attributable to g/g projection, those users will be able to develop a better sense of confidence in when these distortions can be ignored for their particular application.

Details concerning the organizational structure and finding appropriate resources to support implementation in Iowa will continue to emerge. The major stakeholders in this endeavor will likely be Professional Land Surveyors and Engineers, SLSI, ASCE, ISAC, ICEA, IDOT, NGS, IGIC, state agencies, counties, cities and private enterprise. Have I missed anyone?

2011 USDA NAIP Imagery and 1980s Historical Orthos
Gregg Hadish - NRCS (Gregg.Hadish@ia.usda.gov)
If you haven't already added it: the 2011 NAIP is available state-wide through the USDA Data Gateway:
http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/   Gregg will be working on getting these on to the Iowa Geographic Map Server soon. http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/

Also state-wide 1980s CIR image services (ArcGIS and WMS) are available through ISU GIS Facility.
http://ags.gis.iastate.edu/ArcGISServer/rest/services/Ortho/ortho_1980/ImageServer

City of Johnston GIS “News-not-worthies”
David Croll [dcroll@ci.johnston.ia.us]
We have been doing extensive classification of our county’s parcel data for use in a Stormwater Utility Billing Scheme.   A summer intern was tasked to classify parcels based on Landuse and structures etc. This will enable us to join parcels to our billing system to appropriately bill if a stormwater utility goes into effect.

Polk County Emergency Management has asked the help of the Des Moines Area Regional GIS participants in implementing a universal Grid for Polk County.   Early suggestions from the GIS constituents is that we will probably use the U.S. National Grid.   Ideally within 6 months we will have a U.S. National Grid Atlas for all of Polk County in .pdf form at a couple of different scales. We plan to use ESRI’s Data Driven Pages functionality in 10.1 to drive semi-automated creation of the Atlas.

Work continues with the Johnston Police Department on mapping the photos taken inside schools for the Critical 360 Project using Pictometry Online. We now have 3 schools photographed and 1 school completely online within Pictometry Online.

With 2010 Census data available, we have been using those population numbers to derive populations within Census blocks for emergency planning and evacuation routes and target marketing for bond referendums.

That’s all from Johnston

Cedar County GIS
Joshua Sales - Cedar County GIS [gis@cedarcounty.org]
We finally launched our online viewer, which helped put GIS out there a little more than before. Most response have been positive so far: https://cedar.integritygis.com/

Moreover, we picked up Spatial Analyst and I have been able to utilize toolboxes for more advanced analysis. Much of this work has been put online via ArcGIS Online and the Iowa GIS Data Repository, including forest morphology and slope position layers. I have been anxiously awaiting the new DNR land cover to redo the forestry analysis.

Software and Toolboxes employed to enhance our data depot:
http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download/software/guidos
http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/arcgis_extensions.htm
http://corridordesign.org/downloads
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/index.html
http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/ftp/theobald/
http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/npscape/gis_data.cfm

State Agency GIS Service Bureau
Evan Koester (Evan.Koester@dnr.iowa.gov) - (editor’s note, Evan was recently hired to work as the state agency GIS service bureau, with funding from a State Agency Pooled Technology grant through December of 2012)

The Iowa GIS Service Bureau is winding down the initial interviewing process and is starting to identify and address common GIS related needs in state government. We have met with several state agencies and a handful of other state government groups.

Many users, previously isolated, are already taking advantage of new interagency relationships, and overall, people have been very receptive towards efforts to establish an all inclusive clearinghouse of metadata and/or data. People have started using the GIS Service Bureau resources to find datasets, develop general or specific GIS skills, get assistance with data development, and in one case reduced a data processing timeline from three months to six hours.

Overall the project is growing in a positive direction and looks to be a valuable resource for state government in the future.

Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Jon Paoli (jonathan.paoli@iowa.gov)
2011 NSGIC Annual Conference
The 2011 NSGIC annual focused on many of the same themes as years past. Collaborative efforts and increased communication on the Next Generation 911, addressing, and For the Nation (FTN) initiatives are the leading advocacy items for the upcoming year.   The U.S. Census Bureau discussed increased efforts to partner on addressing with local governments and is looking for the states to get more involved to help coordinate.

The NextGen 911 and Geospatial Preparedness committees were very active during the meetings. The NextGen 911 group has put together a couple of informative handouts on NextGen 911 and coordination ideas for the states. Iowa may be taking part in a NSGIC pilot project for Stewardship and Maintenance of Critical Infrastructure & Facility GIS data. There are currently 8 states interested in utilizing Indiana’s maintenance application to accomplish this pilot.

Voter Geocoding Project
A unique project that HSEMD is currently working on is the Secretary of State’s voter geocoding project. There is an obvious need to geocode all 1.9 million voters ahead of the caucus. We are currently in discussions regarding the accuracy of the data and their overall expectations. I have reached out to the DNR and ISU to potentially become leads on this project if funding is available.
The Next Generation 911 project for Iowa has begun. There are 5 pilot counties yet to be determined, we are in the beginning stages of data collection. ICIT is assisting our efforts and send out a message on behalf of HSEMD. Data has been received from 20 plus counties.

DOT GIS moving towards asset management
Eric Abrams (Eric.Abrams@dot.iowa.gov)

DOT moving toward asset management philosophy to sustain infrastructure investment. This philosophy asks five core questions

What is the current state of our assets?
What is the required level of service?
Which assets are critical to sustained performance?
What are the best Operations & Maintenance and capital improvement plan strategies?
What is the best ling-term funding strategy?

New GIMS system will be operational soon and next spring will be the last time DOT road network will be segmented by multiple attribute properties. Road data will be dynamically segmented for each 30+ features.

DOT sign inventory is functioning.   See Brad C. for information.

DOT asset collection pilot is starting with a vendor. See Shawn B. for information

Getting ready to deploy Latitude Geographics Geocortex software.

External web server to deploy after Christmas.

Quick Terrain Modeler by applied imagery Training 24-27th, we have room for a state government observer to see what the software is about.

Deployment of GPS/AVL to over 300 snow plows. Monitor location and vehicle attributes.

DOT Strategic Plan moving forward. Phase 1 complete, looking at phase 2 options.

Working with Jon Paoli on direct access to DOT GIS infrastructure (Oracle Spatial, LRS, ArcGIS Servers and Geocortex)

The Schneider Corporation Grows Iowa GIS Staff

Jan Bowles (JBowles@schneidercorp.com)

The Schneider Corporation introduces two new members to their GIS Technical Team in as many months. “Schneider has taken great care to develop a top notch Technical Team, says Jeff Corns, VP GIS Operations, “these folks make sure life is good by removing challenges and providing first class service for our customers.”

The Schneider Corporation announces the addition of GIS Project Manager, Jeff Lewis, to our Ankeny office. Since 2002, Jeff has held positions as GIS Specialist, Communications Division Manager for Emergency Management, and Assistant IT and GIS Services Director…all for the Bay County Board of Commissioners in Panama City, Florida. He is a 2001 graduate of Northeast Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Geography. Jeff is a native Iowan and he and his family are “coming home” after living the past nine years in Florida.

We are also pleased to welcome Jonathon Mumm to the Schneider team. Jonathon joins us as a Web Developer in GIS and works at the Ankeny, Iowa office. In May of this year, Jonathon earned his BS degree in Management Information Systems from Upper Iowa University.

Please welcome these two newcomers to the Iowa GIS Community.

IGIC Conference Presentations

2011-04-13T16:08:00.004-05:00

Stephen Cooper - City of Cedar Rapids

Casey Kohrt - Iowa DNR

Dave Croll - City of Johnston

Matt Rohlf - IDOT

Chris Kahle, Iowa DNR - Iowa Floodplain Mapping

IGIC Conference participants, enjoying the proceedings...

2011-04-13T15:53:00.004-05:00

IGIC Conference 2011 Keynote Presentations

2011-04-13T15:45:00.004-05:00

Chris Kohlmann, Information Services Manager, City of Dubuque - "From GIS to IS: Designing, Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Technology"

Clint Brown, ESRI Director of Software Products, "The Changing Role of GIS in a Web 2.0 World"

IGIC 2011 Conference

2011-04-13T15:40:00.003-05:00

IGIC Conference - Dubuque Iowa April 2011

2011-04-13T15:33:00.004-05:00

Nikki Breitsprecker - conference chair - welcomes participants

IGIC Conference Photos

2011-04-13T15:26:00.006-05:00

Grand River Center in Dubuque

The mighty Mississippi.

Vendor reception at the National Mississippi River Museum

Vendor Booths

2011-01-18T16:23:00.005-06:00

IGI and Related GIS Activities

Status Jan 19, 2011

Ongoing IGI Framework Data Projects

Statewide Lidar Project – all 57k square miles of the state have been collected!!! All the data has been delivered. Initial processing to blocks is completed. Derivative products are complete and stored in county folders on NRGIS Library. Some reflights are supposedly happening.

Iowa Geocoding Project – create address points (E911 driveway points and rooftop points) for 50 counties using $650k from pooled technology fund

address points for 25 counties is the first goal - we are using a US Postal Service address validation tool to correct and find errors, which is turning out to be a bigger job than previsoulsy thought. Planning to get 25 counties out this spring.
Contract with ISU GIS facility for address points and structure points for 15 counties by December 2010, work completed with some funds left, contract extended to next June - 10 students worked this past summer, will have a new contract for 2nd year soon.
2 ft contour shape files, 3 meter DEMs and 1 meter hill shades created from lidar for all 99 counties, http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/webapps/nrgislibx/ look in the county directories
Last spring, DNR has called all 99 counties to inventory basic framework data layers, with results stored in Ramona tool http://ia.gisinventory.net/ The county inventory can be viewed on Google docs. County folks are urged to update their line in the spreadsheet. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhoxDkTBNIfzdE5DMXNCem9wUkp2LTNqeHJ4SkU4OVE&hl=en
Project workers from Iowa City and Ames completed a crowdsourcing GPS pilot August 10-11 in Ida County. Using handheld cameras and GPS units, we photographed buildings and addresses in the towns of Galva, Battle Creek, Holstein, Arthur and Ida Grove and sync GPS location using open source geotagging software. Ida does not have parcel polygons or address point GIS data. 13 volunteers helped out.
2nd GPS crowdsourcing event held Oct 16 in Greenfield, in Adair County. Six project staff and 12 volunteers had a good time with Ginny Kuhfus, Greenfield Chamber of Commerce director.
3rd Crowdsourcing event will likely be in May 2011, probably in either Fremont, Ringgold or Osceola Counties. We will collect address information using geotagged photos in one of those counties.

Collection of the 2010 2’ 4-band orthos for eastern 41 counties is completed. Delivery of 2' orthos as uncompressed tiles is complete and CIR and RGB mosaics are available on the NRGIS library and web services on the ISU Ortho Server..

Dan Corbin, Inc. is again providing a horizontal accuracy assessment

IGIC's application for $50k to do a 2010 FGDC CAP ROI Case Study was successful. We are doing an ROI study of a public-private partnership to build and maintain the IGI, called Iowa One Map - will include ROI data from cities, COGs and utilities – with added emphasis on economic development. GITA is our major partner in this project again. Project has commenced with interviews of city GIS programs, rural electric coops and other utilities. Project is currently moving slowly.

New IGI Projects

2010 NAIP 1 meter color was flown again this past summer with federal funding. Iowa partners are contributing an additional $91k for 4^th infrared band. County color mosaics are currently available on the NRGIS library and ISU Ortho Server. 4-band DOQQ were deliverd in December, will be available soon on the IGI ftp server. We will not be participating in the 2011 buy-up.
Grant from USGS State Liaison office to DNR for updating critical infrastructure structure layers and GNIS database using geocoding products for 10 counties in central Iowa - $50k total, started fall 2010, 2 staff persons hired, working on Story County pilot.
DNR, DOT, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and Public Health are developing a pilot project for sharing data and web services among state agencies. The pilot project will initially provide DOT and DNR services through ITE's SOA appliance. Hopefully this will provide a basis for future IGI web services that can be used directly or within other applications.
Pooled Technology Application to start a state agency GIS service bureau - awarded $350k, but got cut back to $302k. DNR is contracting with ISU GISSRF for two GIS service bureau staff to begin work this spring to begin working with state agency GIS projects. Will contract with ISU GIS facility for service bureau staff. Project to start March 2011.
DNR is working with the Iowa Dept of Education and UI Geography Dept to published updated school district boundaries on the NRGIS library. IDE has contracted with UI Geography to update school boundaries and perform other analysis.

IGI Outreach

GIS Day Nov. 17 2010 was hosted by ISU and celebrated the progress of the Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure. Accomplishments and plans for the future will be presented in Ames and on the Web. See videos of presentations here; http://www.gis.iastate.edu/gisday/
Earth Day Event on Saturday, April 23, 2011 we are planning a GIS Crowdsourcing Event in Johnson Co, doing trail mapping, probably at the Corps of Engineers Coralviille Reservoir properties. We will use the geotagging methodology developed for the address point mapping last fall. Saturday morning for 2-3 hours, call Jim G if interested.
We are planning to develop IGI training workshops for users to get hands-on experience with new lidar elevation derivatives, 2' orthos, address and structure points, and maybe some web services. Looking at a training session in SW Iowa in March (Creston?), a half-day workshop at the IGIC conference in April and another half-day training at the ICIT Mid-year in June.

Related GIS Projects

High-resolution land cover for state continues. Contact Pete Kollasch at DNR (pete.kollasch@dnr.iowa.gov)
Floodplain Mapping - $15M to complete floodplain maps for the state – should create hydro-enforced DEMs, contours and hydrography layers as well as approximate DFIRMs for all Iowa counties - two staff persons hired, program manager and GIS analyst – pilot project with Iowa Flood Center for floodplain models for Poweshiek County. Contracting for DFIRMs will start later year. DNR will produce stream centerlines derived from the lidar. Contact Chris Kahle for details at chris.kahle@dnr.iowa.gov.
ARRA Broadband Mapping - Iowa Utility Board contracted with Connected Nation to map broadband availability in Iowa http://broadband.iowa.gov/board_information/docs/Connect-Iowa-Presentation-10.02.2009.pdf Online mapping application was made available at the end of June. http://connectiowa.org/mapping/_interactive_map_interface/?q=map County based maps in PDF form are now avaiable (beta version) at http://www.connectiowa.org/mapping/county_maps/.
ICIT Data Repository revamped - https://www.iowagisdata.org/ Currently 23 counties have some data available in the data repository. Cedar County recently added.
DNR completed last summer the 1950's historical aerial photography layer for the state. Both 1950s and 1930s are available on the ISU Ortho server and NRGIS Library. Currently working on scanning and orthorectifying the 1960's data set, which is about 75% completed. Check availability in the NRGIS library. 1970s and 1980s have been started.
USGS completed The National Map US TOPO products for Iowa this past year. 99% of the state is available now at the USGS Map Store Copy will be available on IGI website by March 2011.
Rebuild Iowa Office (RIO) is recommending creation of a state office of planning and GIS (OPGIS) to help various groups perform "smart planning" efforts. The current form of the bill in the 2011 Iowa Legislature can be viewed here: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=84&hbill=SF28

Possible Future Projects

Applied for 2011 FGDC CAP grant for metadata training, $25k, about $30k in match from the Geocoding project. Named the Iowa Metadata Outreach Project or IMOP, the emphasis is on creating metadata for IGI framework data layers including county GIS files on ICIT Data Repository, and state agencies data layers. Project is linked to the Iowa Geocoding project and the State Agency GIS Service Bureau project. Grant funds will be used to hire a metadata training assistant. Metadata records will be loaded on an updated Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, using Geoportal Technology. Four workshops planned, three targeted to specific data producer communities, one for the general GIS community. Maybe we will know if funding is available in February or March, with a June 1 start.

Projects looking for funding

NHD attribute conflation on lidar-derived stream network.
Geocoding Phase 2 – address points for 50 or so remaining counties, applied for PT funding in July 2010, for July 2011 project continuation. Project rated 4th on list, should happen if legislature appropriates funding for PT account next spring.
County GIS Service Bureau - 4 FTEs requiring about $300k per year of ongoing funding

If you have any relevant progress on statewide or local framework data layers, web services, training or coordination efforts to add to this list, please contact me at james.giglierano@dnr.iowa.gov

Next update in April 2011

Eric Abrams contributed this info about DOT's Geonexus Project.

DOT has connection with DAS Data Power Box and will be putting some time wrapping the DOT test environment. Patrick and I will be getting together January 20^th to compare notes. Once test is done DOT will determine what mapping and LRS services to expose.

DOT is equipping snow plows with GPS. Eventually plow locations and data will be exposed to DPS through the MACH system.

On Jan 13th, the DOT rolled out our new arc GIS server environment. This new architecture will help complete DOT’s portion of IGI.

DOT Production

Gregg Hadish of NRCS contributed this info about Iowa web services:

Here are some newly available Iowa services:

Iowa Geographic Map Server through ArcGIS Online (basic browser) http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=b6f72ed0de5c405384d686e2113ba859

Iowa Geographic Map Server through ArcGIS Explorer Online (advanced browser) http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=31f0c319df0f4c85b3f33152311f7ae7

WMS Service - Spring 2009 CIR Orthophotos for southwest and central Iowa http://ags.gis.iastate.edu/arcgisserver/services/Ortho/ortho_2009_cir/ImageServer/WMSServer?

WMS Service – Spring 2010 CIR Orthophotos for eastern Iowa http://ags.gis.iastate.edu/arcgisserver/services/Ortho/ortho_2010_cir/ImageServer/WMSServer?

WMS Service – Summer 2010 NAIP Orthophotos for Iowa http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/ArcGISServer/services/Ortho/naip_2010/MapServer/WMSServer?

WMS Service – State-wide LiDAR Hillshade for Iowa http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/server.cgi?wmtver=1.0&

WMS Service – Color Hillshade from 30-meter DEM for Iowa http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/server.cgi?wmtver=1.0&

These WMS services are also available through the Iowa Geographic Map Server web client http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/

Gregg Hadish

State GIS Specialist

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

210 Walnut St

Federal Building Room 693

Des Moines, Iowa 50309

Phone (515) 323-2234

Fax (515) 284-4647

2011-01-18T16:21:00.000-06:00

IGI and Related GIS Activities

Status Oct 20, 2010

Ongoing IGI Framework Data Projects

Statewide Lidar Project – all 57k square miles of the state have been collected!!! All the data has been delivered. Initial processing to blocks is completed. Derivative products continue. Some reflights may be necessary this fall and winter.

Iowa Geocoding Project – create address points (E911 driveway points and rooftop points) for 50 counties using $650k from pooled technology fund

address points for 25 counties is goal for first year of project, many to be released by GIS Day Nov 17
Contract with ISU GIS facility for address points for 15 counties by December 2010 - 10 students working this summer, making good progress completed 12 counties so far.
Contour shape files, 3 meter DEMs and 1 meter hill shades created from lidar for all 99 counties, and most are available on the NRGIS library, to be completed by Nov 17
ISU GIS is setting up an ftp distribution point for IGI files which should be ready by Nov 17 GIS Day - will include orthos in state plane from the 2' statewide project, 2' contours and other data
DNR has called all 99 counties to inventory basic framework data layers, with results stored in Ramona tool http://ia.gisinventory.net/
Project workers from Iowa City and Ames completed a crowdsourcing GPS pilot August 10-11 in Ida County. Using handheld cameras and GPS units, we photographed buildings and addresses in the towns of Galva, Battle Creek, Holstein, Arthur and Ida Grove and sync GPS location using open source geotagging software. Ida does not have parcel polygons or address point GIS data. 13 volunteers helped out.
2nd GPS crowdsourcing event held Oct 16 in Greenfield, in Adair County. Six project staff and 12 volunteers had a good time with Ginny Kuhfus, Greenfield Chamber of Commerce director.

Collection of the 2010 2’ 4-band orthos for eastern 41 counties is completed. Delivery of 2' orthos as uncompressed tiles is complete and CIR and RGB mosaics are available on the NRGIS library.

Dan Corbin, Inc. is again providing a horizontal accuracy assessment

IGIC's application for $50k to do a 2010 FGDC CAP ROI Case Study was successful. We are doing an ROI study of a public-private partnership to build and maintain the IGI, called Iowa One Map - will include ROI data from cities, COGs and utilities – with added emphasis on economic development. GITA is our major partner in this project again. Project has commenced with interviews of city GIS programs, rural electric coops and other utilities.

New IGI Projects

2010 NAIP 1 meter color is currently being flown again this summer with federal funding. Iowa partners are contributing an additional $91k for 4^th infrared band. County color mosaics are currently being delivered and becoming available on the NRGIS library. 4-band deliveries unknown.
Grant from USGS State Liaison office to DNR for updating critical infrastructure structure layers and GNIS database using geocoding products for 10 counties in central Iowa - $50k total, started fall 2010, 2 staff persons hired.
DNR, DOT, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and Public Health are developing a pilot project for sharing data and web services among state agencies. The pilot project will initially provide DOT and DNR services through ITE's SOA appliance. Hopefully this will provide a basis for future IGI web services that can be used directly or within other applications.
Pooled Technology Application for 2 FTEs for 2 years to start a state agency GIS service bureau - awarded $320k. DNR and others will hire contractors for a service bureau to begin work this fall to begin working with state agency GIS projects. Will contract with ISU GIS facility for service bureau staff. Project to start January 2011.
DNR is working with the Iowa Dept of Education and UI Geography Dept to published updated school district boundaries on the NRGIS library. IDE has contracted with UI Geography to update school boundaries and perform other analysis. School boundaries should be available by the end of the 2010.

IGI Outreach

GIS Day Nov. 17 2010 hosted by ISU and others will celebrate the progress of the Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure. Accomplishments and plans for the future will be presented in Ames and on the Web.

Related GIS Projects

High-resolution land cover for state – 1 meter from NAIP, leaf-off, lidar and other input layers - IGWS working on pilot, Lyon and Osceola Counties with 2007 NAIP data, 2' orthos and lidar - there may be some funding from a DNR habitat mapping effort in the near future
Floodplain Mapping - $15M to complete floodplain maps for the state – should create hydro-enforced DEMs, contours and hydrography layers as well as approximate DFIRMs for all Iowa counties - two staff persons hired, program manager and GIS analyst – pilot project with Iowa Flood Center for floodplain models for Poweshiek County. Contracting for DFIRMs will start later year. DNR will produce stream centerlines derived from the lidar.
ARRA Broadband Mapping - Iowa Utility Board contracted with Connected Nation to map broadband availability in Iowa http://broadband.iowa.gov/board_information/docs/Connect-Iowa-Presentation-10.02.2009.pdf Online mapping application was made available at the end of June. http://connectiowa.org/mapping/_interactive_map_interface/?q=map
ICIT Data Repository revamped - https://www.iowagisdata.org/ Currently 21 counties have some data available in the data repository.
DNR completed last summer the 1950's historical aerial photography layer for the state. Both 1950s and 1930s are available on the ISU Ortho server and NRGIS Library. Currently working on scanning and orthorectifying the 1960's data set, which is about 53 counties completed. Check availability in the NRGIS library.
USGS is currently producing The National Map US TOPO products for Iowa this year. 99% of the state is available now at the USGS Map Store Copy will be available on IGI website by Jan 2011.
Rebuild Iowa Office (RIO) is recommending creation of a state office of planning and GIS (OPGIS) to help various groups perform "smart planning" efforts.

Possible Future Projects

Applying for 2011 FGDC CAP grant for metadata training, $25k. Emphasis on creating metadata for IGI framework data layers including county GIS files on ICIT Data Repository, and state agencies data layers.

Projects looking for funding

NHD attribute conflation on lidar-derived stream network.
Geocoding Phase 2 – address points for 50 or so remaining counties, applied for PT funding in July 2010, for July 2011 project continuation. Project rated 4th on list, should happen if legislature appropriates funding for PT account next spring.
County GIS Service Bureau - 4 FTEs requiring about $300k per year of ongoing funding

If you have any relevant progress on statewide or local framework data layers, web services, training or coordination efforts to add to this list, please contact me at james.giglierano@dnr.iowa.gov

Next update in January 2011

IGI and Related GIS Activities - Status July 15, 2010

2010-07-19T11:05:00.003-05:00

IGI and Related GIS Activities

Status July 15, 2010

Ongoing IGI Framework Data Projects

Statewide Lidar Project – all 57k square miles of the state have been collected!!! Three deliveries are left - July 15, July 30 and end of August? Some reflights may be necessary this fall and winter.

Iowa Geocoding Project – create address points (E911 driveway points and rooftop points) for 50 counties using $650k from pooled technology fund

address points for 25 is goal for first year of project, many to be released by GIS Day Nov 17
Contract with ISU GIS facility for address points for 15 counties by December 2010 - 10 students working this summer, making good progress
Contract with Geocomm to get E911 data from 33+ county dispatch systems - completed
Possible contract with ICIT for data repository intern to help collect parcel data - contract still pending
Contour shape files, 3 meter DEMs and 1 meter hill shades were created as by-products, and are available on the NRGIS library for 59 counties (19 are partially complete)
ISU GIS is setting up an ftp distribution point for IGI files which should be ready by Nov 17 GIS Day - will include orthos in state plane from the 2' statewide project, 2' contours and other data
DNR has called all 99 counties to inventory basic framework data layers, with results stored in Ramona tool http://ia.gisinventory.net/ Counties wishing to maintain their inventory data please contact us.
Project workers from Iowa City and Ames will do a crowdsourcing GPS pilot August 10-11 in Ida County. Using handheld cameras and GPS units, we will photograph buildings and addresses in the towns of Galva, Battle Creek, Holstein, Arthur and Ida Grove and sync GPS location using open source GPicsync software http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/. Ida does not have parcel polygons or address point GIS data. Volunteers are welcome to come and help.

Collection of the 2010 2’ 4-band orthos for eastern 41 counties is completed. Delivery of 2' orthos as uncompressed tiles has begun. Delivery should be complete by end of summer.

Dan Corbin, Inc. is again providing a horizontal accuracy assessment

Iowa County Engineer Association Service Bureau is rebuilding the control point server (county GPS monuments and NGS control markers) - Jon Lubke is collecting control point data from county engineers for inclusion on server

New IGI Projects

IGIC's application for $50k to do a 2010 FGDC CAP ROI Case Study was successful. This grant will fund an ROI study of a public-private partnership to build and maintain the IGI, called Iowa One Map - will include ROI data from cities, COGs and utilities – with added emphasis on economic development. GITA is our major partner in this project again. Project has commenced with interviews of city GIS programs and rural electric coops.
2010 NAIP 1 meter color is currently being flown again this summer with federal funding. Iowa partners are contributing an additional $91k for 4th infrared band. Should have county color mosaics around November, 4-band deliveries unknown.
Grant from USGS State Liaison office to DNR for updating critical infrastructure structure layers and GNIS database using geocoding products for 10 counties in central Iowa - $50k total, will start late summer.
DNR, DOT, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and Public Health are developing a pilot project for sharing data and web services among state agencies. The pilot project will initially provide DOT and DNR services through ITE's SOA appliance. Hopefully this will provide a basis for future IGI web services that can be used directly or within other applications.
Pooled Technology Application for 2 FTEs for 2 years to start a state agency GIS service bureau - awarded $320k. DNR and others will hire contractors for a service bureau to begin work this fall to begin working with state agency GIS projects.

IGI Outreach

State agency GIS steering committee and GIS users group met June 17, discussed service bureau, IT consolidation and other projects
GIS Day Nov. 17 2010 hosted by ISU and others will celebrate the progress of the Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure. Accomplishments and plans for the future will be presented in Ames and on the Web.

Related GIS Projects

High-resolution land cover for state – 1 meter from NAIP, leaf-off, lidar and other input layers - IGWS working on pilot, Lyon and Osceola Counties with 2007 NAIP data, 2' orthos and lidar - there may be some funding from a DNR habitat mapping effort in the near future
Floodplain Mapping - $15M to complete floodplain maps for the state – should create hydro-enforced DEMs, contours and hydrography layers as well as approximate DFIRMs for all Iowa counties - two staff persons hired, program manager and GIS analyst – pilot project with Iowa Flood Center for floodplain models for Poweshiek County. Contracting for DFIRMs will start later year. DNR will produce stream centerlines derived from the lidar.
ARRA Broadband Mapping - Iowa Utility Board contracted with Connected Nation to map broadband availability in Iowa http://broadband.iowa.gov/board_information/docs/Connect-Iowa-Presentation-10.02.2009.pdf Online mapping application was made available at the end of June. http://connectiowa.org/mapping/_interactive_map_interface/?q=map
Statewide parcel GIS data layer - Ray Willis of Polk County is developing a pilot data set of parcels using FGDC core standard, to be distributed on the ICIT Data Repository. Polk, Linn and Dubuque Counties are available.
ICIT Data Repository revamped - https://www.iowagisdata.org/ Currently 21 counties have some data available in the data repository.
DNR completed last summer the 1950's historical aerial photography layer for the state. Both 1950s and 1930s are available on the ISU Ortho server and NRGIS Library. Currently working on scanning and orthorectifying the 1960's data set, which is about 53 counties completed. Check availability in the NRGIS library.
USGS is currently producing The National Map US TOPO products for Iowa this year. Most areas of the state are available now at the

USGS Map Store

Possible Future Projects

Crowdsourcing event in Fall 2010? Envisioned to be an educational event attracting non-GIS as well as GIS professionals to either a county-wide or community-wide volunteer mapping exercise. Emphasis on mapping the "community fabric" (what makes a place interesting and unique), not just infrastructure or collections of things. Look at using free internet-based mapping applications to display the results of the exercise. Looking for sponsors and volunteers. (DNR is doing a mini-GPS pilot in Ida County towns August 10-11 with summer staff from the geocoding project)

Projects looking for funding

NHD attribute conflation on lidar-derived stream network.
Geocoding Phase 2 – address points for 50 or so remaining counties, apply for PT funding in July 2010, for July 2011 project continuation
County GIS Service Bureau - 4 FTEs requiring about $300k per year of ongoing funding

If you have questions please call me at 319-335-1594
Jim Giglierano
Iowa DNR/Geological Survey

IGIC Board Election Results 2010

2010-06-15T16:30:00.001-05:00

Congratulations to the newly elected sector representatives for the 2010 - 2012 IGIC Board of Directors.

Every two years IGIC’s membership selects sector representatives to serve a two year term on the Board of Directors. All 25 seats are up for election representing all sectors (Community College & K-12; County Government; Federal Agency; Municipal Government; Private Sector; Regional Organization; State Agency; and University) of the IGIC Board.

The elected representatives and the sectors they are representing are as follows:

Community College & K-12

Terry Brase - Associate Professor, Geospatial Technologies - Kirkwood Community College
Kevin Butt - Assistant Professor, Agriculture Education - Ellsworth Community College

County Government

Micah Cutler - GIS Coordinator - Hardin/Franklin Counties
Matt Boeck - GIS Coordinator - Story County
Paula Lemke - GIS Coordinator - Cerro Gordo County
Rick Havel - GIS Coordinaotr - Johnson County

Federal Agency

Gregg Hadish - State GIS Specialist - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Bob Lemen - USGS Geospatial Liaison for Iowa - United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Municipal Government

Nikki Breitsprecker -GIS Coordinator / Analyst - City of Dubuque
David Croll - GIS Coordinator - City of Johnston
Ellen Laughlin - Draftsperson - City of Waterloo

Private Sector

Joe Eckmann - Senior Account Manager - ESRI
Matt Sorenson - Vice President - Midland GIS Solutions
Joshua McNary - Marketing Manager - Aerial Services, Inc.
Scott Sandberg - Field Coordinator / GIS Specialist - Trees Forever

Regional Organization

Eric Sanders - Transportation Modeler/GIS Analyst / Planner - Siouland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council (SIMPCO)
Bethany Wilcoxon - Associate Transportation Planner - Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

State Agency

Chris Ensminger - GIS Section Supervisor - Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Jon Paoli - GIS Coordinator - Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division
Jim Giglierano - Geologist, Remote Sensing Analyst - Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Brad Cutler - GIS Coordinator - Office of Traffic & Safety, Iowa Department of Transportation

University

Dr. Anya Butt - Associate Professor of Environmental Studies - Central College
Kevin Kane - Director, Iowa State University GIS Facility and Adjunct Professor - Iowa State University
Dr. Simon Geletta - Associate Professor of Public Health - Des Moines University
Christopher Seeger, ASLA, GISP - Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Extension Specialist - Iowa State University

This iteration of the IGIC Board welcomes 9 fresh faces: Bethany Wilcoxon; Chris Seeger; Ellen Laughlin; Jim Giglierano; Joshua McNary; Kevin Butt; Matt Sorenson; Rick Havel; and Scott Sandberg. Welcome.

A very big thank you to all candidates who stepped forward to have their names placed on the ballot. As many of you know, IGIC is an entirely volunteer effort that is as successful as its members make it.

Please remember that IGIC meetings are open to all and your contributions are a crucial part of our ongoing dialogue in advancing IGIC’s mission of “fostering an efficient GIS environment through cooperation and coordination with public and private entities that access, collect, provide, and share data, metadata, applications and educational opportunities.”

The next IGIC quarterly meeting is scheduled for July 21st. Please refer to the IGIC website for further details as they become available.

Election Season 2010

2010-05-18T20:21:00.002-05:00

It is that time again. Time for you as the IGIC membership to select representatives to sit on the 25 member Board of Directors for IGIC.

As has been the case in the past, all IGIC members are eligible to vote for candidates in all sectors. Please take a few moments to read through the candidates and cast your vote.

Cast your vote here.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please contact Brad Cutler with your issue.

Jim Giglierano wins the MAGIC Service Award

2010-04-20T10:00:00.000-05:00

Couldn't go to a more deserving person. Thanks for all that you do for Iowa's GIS community!

"Jim Giglierano wins the MAGIC Service Award #MAGICgis2010"

The award description:

"GIS Service Nominees have demonstrated outstanding contributions to GIS Service benefiting their community in the MidAmerica region during the past two years. Contributions may have been through education, outreach, training, applications, projects or by successfully accomplishing grants that benefit their communities."

If we get photos of Jim in his tuxedo accepting the award or a copy of his acceptance speech, we'll make sure to get it posted online as soon as possible.

(And for those of you out there, you can follow all of the goings-on at the MAGIC 2010 Symposium on Twitter: #MAGICgis2010)

IGI and Related GIS Activities

2010-04-14T20:17:00.002-05:00

April 15, 2010

Ongoing IGI Framework Data Projects

Statewide Lidar Project – 47k sq miles collected out of 57k were collected last spring but many areas have to be reflown – new deliveries started in Sept but not all areas are available from spring 2009. 2010 flights and reflights have started in NE Iowa and east central Iowa

Geocoding Project – to create address points for 50 counties using $650k from pooled technology fund

address points for 3 counties in review - Story, Decatur and Osceola
started production of address point layers for Emmet, Cherokee, Warren, Pottawattamie, Hardin, and Sioux Counties.
Contract with ISU GIS facility for address points for 15 additional counties by December 2010
Contract with Geocomm to get E911 data from county dispatch systems
Possible contract with ICIT for data repository intern to help collect parcel data
Contour shape files, 3 meter DEMs and 1 meter hill shades were created as by-products, and are available on the NRGIS library for 43 counties - Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Boone*, Bremer*, Buchanan', Cass, Chickasaw, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Delaware*, Emmet*, Fayette*, Fremont, Howard, Iowa, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson*, Jones*, Keokuk, Lucas, Lyon, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, O'Brien, Osceola, Page, Polk, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sioux, Story, Taylor, Union, Van Buren*, Wapello, Warren, Wayne, Winneshiek (* = partial counties)
ISU GIS is setting up an ftp distribution point for IGI files which should be ready this summer - will include orthos in state plane from the 2' statewide project, 2' contours and other data
DNR is calling county GIS coordinators to inventory basic framework data layers, with results eventually stored in Ramona tool http://ia.gisinventory.net/

Collection of the 2010 2’ 4-band orthos for eastern 41 counties has started. Three counties exercised buy-up option: Des Moines, Lee and Wapello. Parts of Jackson County will also be done at higher resolution. Delivery of 2' orthos will begin later this summer.

Dan Corbin, Inc. will again provide a horizontal accuracy assessment

Iowa County Engineer Association Service Bureau is rebuilding the control point server (county GPS monuments and NGS control markers) - Jon Lubke is collecting control point data from county engineers for inclusion on server

New IGI Projects

IGIC's application for a 2010 FGDC CAP ROI Case Study Grant was successful ($50k). This grant will fund an ROI study of a public-private partnership to build and maintain the IGI, called Iowa One Map - will include ROI data from cities, COGs and utilities – added emphasis on economic development. GITA will again be our major partner in this project. Should commence in June or July.
2010 NAIP 1 meter color will be flown again with federal funding. Iowa partners will contribute an additional $91k for 4^th infrared band. Should have county color mosaics around November, 4-band deliveries unknown.
Grant from USGS State Liaison office to DNR for updating critical infrastructure structure layers using geocoding products for 10 counties in central Iowa $25k, start this summer.
DNR, DOT, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and Public Health are developing a pilot project for sharing data and web services among state agencies. The pilot project will initially provide DOT and DNR services through ITE's SOA appliance. Hopefully this will provide a basis for future IGI web services that can be used directly or within other applications.

IGI Outreach

ROI presentations at MAGIC Conference April 18-22, 2010 Kansas City
GIS Day Nov. 17 2010 hosted by ISU and others will celebrate the progress of the Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure. Accomplishments and plans for the future will be presented in Ames and on the Web.

Related GIS Projects

High-resolution land cover for state – 1 meter from NAIP, leaf-off, lidar and other input layers - IGWS working on pilot, Lyon and Osceola Counties with 2007 NAIP data, 2' orthos and lidar - there may be some funding from a DNR habitat mapping effort in the near future
Floodplain Mapping - $15M to complete floodplain maps for the state – should create hydro-enforced DEMs, contours and hydrography layers as well as approximate DFIRMs for all Iowa counties - two staff persons hired, program manager and GIS analyst – pilot project with Iowa Flood Center for floodplain models for Poweshiek County. Contracting for DFIRMs will start later year.
ARRA Broadband Mapping - Iowa Utility Board contracted with Connected Nation to map broadband availability in Iowa http://broadband.iowa.gov/board_information/docs/Connect-Iowa-Presentation-10.02.2009.pdf Data will be delivered in at the end of May 2010, basically census block group level info.
Iowa state agency projects - assistance to IDPS Fusion Center and State Police dispatch software upgrade, with data and web services from DOT, DNR and HLSEM.
Statewide parcel GIS data layer - Ray Willis of Polk County is developing a pilot data set of parcels using FGDC core standard, to be distributed on the ICIT Data Repository
ICIT Data Repository revamped - https://www.iowagisdata.org/ Currently 19 counties have some data available in the data repository.
DNR completed this past summer the 1950's historical aerial photography layer for the state. Both 1950s and 1930s are available on the ISU Ortho server and NRGIS Library. Currently working on scanning and orthorectifying the 1960's data set, which is about 50% complete. Check availability in the NRGIS library.
USGS is currently producing The National Map products for Iowa this year. Should be available by next January. Check here for status: http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/about.html#status

Pending Projects

Pooled Technology Application for 2 FTEs for 2 years to start a state GIS service bureau - rated 3rd out of all PT projects. Funding was allocated by legislature for PT, but status is unknown due to state IT consolidation bill.

Possible Future Projects

Crowdsourcing event in Fall 2010? Envisioned to be an educational event attracting non-GIS as well as GIS professionals to either a county-wide or community-wide volunteer mapping exercise. Emphasis on mapping the "community fabric" (what makes a place interesting and unique), not just infrastructure or collections of things. Look at using free internet-based mapping applications to display the results of the exercise. Looking for sponsors and volunteers.

Projects looking for funding

Hydrography 1) high resolution stream centerlines extracted from lidar DEMs for floodplain mapping work 2) NHD attribute conflation on lidar-derived stream network.
Geocoding Phase 2 – address points for 50 or so remaining counties, apply for PT funding in July 2010, for July 2011 project continuation
County GIS Service Bureau - 4 FTEs requiring about $300k per year of ongoing funding

Completed Projects in 2009

Statewide Geocoding Project presentation to Iowa NENA/E911 Council Fall Conference Oct 27, 2009 Des Moines
IGI presentations at Eastern Iowa GIS Users Group Meeting, Nov 6, 2009, Wickiup Hill, Linn County

Geospatial Interns – Americorps funded 4 volunteers through the summer to do IGI activities and local gov’t GIS needs: Winneshiek, Hardin and Marshall Counties, DM Regional GIS group - completed Sept 2009
Iowa Rural GIS Summit – Sept 29 and 30, 2009, Osceola, IA - 46 participants discussed technical and institutional issues relevant to rural GIS programs

GIS Flood ROI Study - $15k funding from USGS – interviewed GIS people involved in 2008 flood, ROI spreadsheets produced for various geospatial activities during 2008 flood – final delivery July 2009, http://www.iowagic.org/igi/documents/roi-2-gis-and-the-flood-of-2008

2009 NAIP was flown in 2009 with federal stimulus funding – 1 m color - compressed MrSID county products were delivered in November 2009

2009 2’ 4-band Orthos for Western Iowa - imagery collected in March 2009, delivered in Sept/Oct. - available on the NRGIS Library

Dan Corbin, Inc. has provided horizontal accuracy assessment

Stewardship of Structures and Transportation layers – 2008 $50k FGDC CAP Grant – web update tool for structures database completed at ISU - includes DOT GIMS transportation base map product and building footprints from lidar - final report sent in December

address points for 3 counties in review - Story, Osceola and Decatur
DOT transportation base map GIS layers available

Compiled by Jim Giglierano

james.giglierano@dnr.iowa.gov

Census Day 2010

2010-04-01T09:38:00.000-05:00

Just a friendly reminder for all of you out there on this gorgeous April morning who haven't yet turned in your Census questionnaire to get those in the mail. I'm sure you've seen and heard the commercials that talk about the importance of filling out and returning your Census forms by today so we won't go into that. We won't talk about the tax dollars that are required to have folks go back out and canvas neighborhoods picking up forms either. Let's talk about something else entirely. Competition.

For the 2000 Census Iowa had the highest rate of return in the country at 79%. The little widget below says that Iowa is sitting at 60% participation as of April 1, 2010. Not too shabby but that puts us in 5th place. Our Midwest neighbors Nebraska (61%), North Dakota (61%), North Dakota (62%) and Wisconsin (62%) all lead the great state of Iowa in return rates.

Also, kudos to Dubuque for being at the top of the list of "Top 50 Places" on Census Day 2010 with a rate of 70%.

So, just a gentle reminder to send your forms back in if you haven't done so already and go ahead encourage your neighbors to do the same.

U.S. House Subcommittee Reviewing of USDA's Information Technology Systems

2010-03-11T22:29:00.000-06:00

On Wednesday of this week (March 10, 2010) the current President of NSGIC Will Craig of Minnesota was part of a panel speaking with the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry on the subject of information technology systems at the USDA. (FYI....U.S. Representative Steve King of Iowa's 5th District serves on this Subcommittee)

Mr. Craig was in the second panel of the day and I've linked to all the opening statements presented by panelists. While GIS was mentioned in nearly all of the opening statements and the role it plays at USDA, the main topic presented by Mr.Craig was the Imagery for the Nation (IFTN) program that has been in the development stages for the better part of the last five years.

Mr. Roger Johnson, President, National Farmers Union (NFU), Washington D.C.
Mr. Mike Mayfield, National Association of Farm Service Agency Office Employees (NASCOE), Pulaski, Tennessee
Mr. Craig Turner, President, National Association of Farmer-Elected Committees (NAFEC), Matador, Texas
Mr. Will Craig, President, National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mr. Jim Krosch, Supervisor, on behalf of the National Association of Conservation Districts, Morris, Minnesota for NACD

Along a similar line, the Association of Photogrammetry, Mapping and Geospatial Firms (MAPPS) released a press release on March 9th stating that a bill to introduce IFTN to Congress was being presented for introduction.

Many of you have been approached in recent years to contribute funding to the continuation (or upgrade) of NAIP imagery for Iowa. It is a community effort and Iowa has shown great success in "passing the hat" over the years to keep NAIP acquisition happening.

Finally, two things to ponder.

The first is that usage numbers provided from the ISU Orthoserver indicate that there are an average of 45,000 visitors per month to the Orthoserver. Many of these visitors are looking for and utilizing the NAIP imagery. That is a lot of users.

And last but not least. If NAIP is important for what you do and if the IFTN program would be beneficial to whatever it is that you may do, you need to let somebody know about it.

MAGIC 2010 deadlines approaching fast

2010-03-11T21:43:00.000-06:00

Dates to Remember

· March 17:
Early-bird registrationends.

· March 17:
Guaranteed rates at the Westin end.

· April 12:
2010 Project Showcase call closes.

· April 18:
MAGIC officially begins!!

Bizarre Map Contest for High School and College Students

2010-03-10T08:00:00.001-06:00

The Bizarre Map Challenge is a map design competition open to high school, college, and university students in the United States. The goals of this challenge are: to promote spatial thinking; increase awareness of geospatial technology; and inspire curiosity about geographic patterns and map representation in students and the broader public. “Bizarre” in this competition refers to maps that are strikingly out of the ordinary. Though all maps must use real-world data, successful entries might employ unusual techniques, illustrate bizarre topics, or exhibit striking patterns.

All entries must be submitted in a static PDF format (no interactive or animated maps) using the on-line registration form. The complete map should be no larger than 8.5 x 11 inches (letter size) with a minimum of half-inch margins. A summary description, 500 words maximum, will also be required at the time of submission. The summary should describe why this map is bizarre, how it was created, the tools used, data sources, coordinate systems, projection methods, etc.

This competition is supported by the National Geospatial Technology Center and San Diego State University and prizes will be awarded to the top entries as voted on by a round of judges and then by the public. The First Place prize is $5,000.

Map submissions are due March 22.

http://bizarremap.sdsu.edu/index.html

Build 3D Iowa

2010-02-10T22:16:00.000-06:00

Build 3D Iowa

A great initiative focused mostly on students in Iowa to get involved in modeling (but open to all).

The more models the better.

IGI and Related GIS Activities - Status Jan. 20, 2010

2010-01-19T10:00:00.003-06:00

Completed Projects

Stewardship of Structures and Transportation layers – 2008 $50k FGDC CAP Grant – web update tool for structures database completed at ISU - includes DOT LRS transportation base map product and building footprints from lidar - final report sent in December

address points for 3 counties in review - Story, Osceola and Decatur
DOT transportation base map GIS layers will be available soon

Ongoing Projects

Statewide Lidar Project – 47k sq miles collected out of 57k – new deliveries started in Sept, continuing to QC/QA raw products - processing status in January 2010 ftp://ftp.igsb.uiowa.edu/Lidar_FTP/Admin_docs/Process_Status_01072010.pdf
2009 2’ 4-band Orthos for Western Iowa - imagery collected in March 2009, delivered in Sept/Oct. - available on the NRGIS Library

Dan Corbin, Inc. contracted to provide horizontal accuracy assessment

Iowa County Engineer Association Service Bureau is rebuilding the control point server (county GPS monuments and NGS control markers) - Jon Lubke is collecting control point data from county engineers for inclusion on server

Geocoding Project – to create address points for 30-50 counties using $650k from pooled technology fund – develop business plan in January 2010

address points for 3 counties in review - Story, Decatur and Osceola
2' contours being created as by-product of building footprint extraction - Lyon, Sioux, Osceola, Page, Adams, Taylor, Decatur, Clarke, Poweshiek, Iowa, Winneshiek and Allamakee.
ISU GIS is setting up an ftp distribution point for IGI files - will include orthos in state plane from the 2' statewide project, 2' contours and other data

2010 2’ 4-band Orthos – full funding appropriated by the legislature this year for completion of state in spring 2010 - about four counties are buying up this year

New IGI Projects - no external funding

High-resolution land cover for state – 1 meter from NAIP, leaf-off, lidar and other input layers - IGWS working on Lyon and Osceola Counties with 2007 NAIP data, 2' orthos and lidar - there may be some funding from a DNR habitat mapping effort in the near future

IGI Outreach

ROI presentation to MAGIC senior executive session April 18-22, 2010 Kansas City

Related GIS Projects

2009 NAIP was flown again this year with federal stimulus funding – 1 m color - compressed MrSID county products delivered in November, available on NRGIS Library
Floodplain Mapping - $15M to complete floodplain maps for the state – should create hydro-enforced DEMs, contours and hydrography layers as well as approximate DFIRMs for all Iowa counties - two staff persons hired, program manager and GIS analyst– pilot project with Iowa Flood Center for floodplain models for Poweshiek County
ARRA Broadband Mapping - Iowa Utility Board contracted with Connected Nation to map broadband availability in Iowa http://broadband.iowa.gov/board_information/docs/Connect-Iowa-Presentation-10.02.2009.pdf- Data delivered in March 2010, basically census block group level info - website http://connectiowa.org/
Iowa state agency projects - assistance to IDPS Fusion Center and State Police dispatch software upgrade, with data and web services from DOT, DNR and HLSEM.
Statewide parcel GIS data layer - Ray Willis of Polk County is developing a pilot data set of parcels using FGDC core standard, to be distributed on the ICIT Data Repository
ICIT Data Repository revamped - https://www.iowagisdata.org/
DNR completed this summer the 1950's historical aerial photography layer for the state. Both 1950s and 1930s are available on the ISU Ortho server or NRGIS Library. Currently working on scanning and orthorectifying the 1960's data set.

Pending Projects

Pooled Technology Application for 2 FTEs for 2 years to run a state GIS service bureau - rated 3rd out of all PT projects, funding has to be allocated by legislature this spring for July 2010 start
USGS/ARRA proposal for orthos - basically help fund local 1' upgrades during 2010/2011 ortho project - PROPOSAL REJECTED Jan 17, 2010
2010 CAP Grant application, new category for ROI – IGI ROI study of a public private partnership to build and maintain the IGI, called Iowa One Map - will include data from cities, COGs and utilities – emphasis on economic development – sent in Jan 7 2010
2010 NAIP - will additional federal funding become available for 1 m color? Can Iowa get together additional $91k for 4^th infrared band?

Possible Future Projects

Collaboration on The National Map data layers and GeoPDFs for Iowa - TNM will work on Iowa during 2010
Collaborate more with County Engineer Service Bureau to help county engineers use lidar elevation data
Crowdsourcing event in Spring 2010?

Projects looking for funding

Hydrography – NHD conflation on lidar-derived stream network from floodplain work - working with Iowa Flood Center and ISU Ag Engineering on procedures for extracting stream linework from lidar DEMs.
Geocoding Phase 2 – address points for 50 or so remaining counties, apply for PT funding in July 2010, for July 2011 project continuation
County GIS Service Bureau - 4 FTEs requiring about $300k per year of ongoing funding

IGI and Related GIS Activities - Status Oct 21, 2009

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Completed Projects

GIS Flood ROI Study - $15k funding from USGS – interviewed GIS people involved in last year’s flood, ROI spreadsheets produced for various geospatial activities during 2008 flood – final delivery July 2009, http://www.iowagic.org/igi/documents/roi-2-gis-and-the-flood-of-2008
Geospatial Interns – Americorps funded 4 volunteers through the summer to do IGI activities and local gov’t GIS needs: Winneshiek, Hardin and Marshall Counties, DM Regional GIS group - completed Sept 2009
Iowa Rural GIS Summit – Sept 29 and 30, Osceola, IA - 46 participants discussed technical and institutional issues relevant to rural GIS programs

Ongoing Projects

Statewide Lidar Project – 47k sq miles collected out of 57k – new deliveries started in Sept, continuing to QC/QA raw products - processing status in October 2009 ftp://ftp.igsb.uiowa.edu/Lidar_FTP/Admin_docs/Process_Status_10062009.pdf
2009 2’ 4-band Orthos for Western Iowa - $650k in funding from state’s pooled technology fund from last year – imagery collected in March 2009, partially delivered in Sept. – Dan Corbin, Inc. contracted to provide horizontal accuracy assessment
Stewardship of Structures and Transportation layers – 2008 $50k FGDC CAP Grant – web update tool for structures database completed at ISU - includes DOT LRS transportation base map product and building footprints from lidar - final report due in December
Iowa County Engineer Association Service Bureau is rebuilding the control point server (county GPS monuments and NGS control markers) - Jon Lubke is collecting control point data from county engineers for inclusion on server

New IGI Projects – funding allocated

Geocoding Project – to create address points for 30-50 counties using $650k from pooled technology fund – full funding appropriated by the legislature this year - began pilot project with data from Story County October 2009, develop business plan in January 2010
2010 2’ 4-band Orthos – full funding appropriated by the legislature this year for completion of state in spring 2010

New IGI Projects - no external funding

High-resolution land cover for state – 1 meter from NAIP, leaf-off, lidar and other input layers - IGWS working on pilot, Lyon and Osceola Counties with 2007 NAIP data, 2' orthos and lidar - there may be some funding from a DNR habitat mapping effort in the near future

IGI Outreach

Statewide Geocoding Project presentation to Iowa NENA/E911 Council Fall Conference Oct 27, 2009 Des Moines
IGI presentations at Eastern Iowa GIS Users Group Meeting, Nov 6, Wickiup Hill, Linn Co
ROI presentation to County Assessors at ISAC Fall School in Coralville, Nov 19 or 20, 2009
ROI presentation to MAGIC senior executive session April 18-22, 2010 Kansas City

Related GIS Projects

2009 NAIP was flown again this year with federal stimulus funding – 1 m color - waiting for delivery of compressed MrSID county products
Floodplain Mapping - $15M to complete floodplain maps for the state – should create hydro-enforced DEMs, contours and hydrography layers as well as approximate DFIRMs for all Iowa counties - two staff persons hired, program manager and GIS analyst– pilot project with Iowa Flood Center for floodplain models for Poweshiek County
Eastern Iowa GIS Day - Economic Development Case Studies Nov 17 730am-10am breakfast at Kirkwood CC Conference Center in Cedar Rapids - aimed at business community
ARRA Broadband Mapping - Iowa Utility Board contracted with Connected Nation to map broadband availability in Iowa http://broadband.iowa.gov/board_information/docs/Connect-Iowa-Presentation-10.02.2009.pdf- Data delivered in March 2010, basically census block group level info
Iowa state agency projects - assistance to IDPS Fusion Center and State Police dispatch software upgrade, with data and web services from DOT, DNR and HLSEM.
Statewide parcel GIS data layer - Ray Willis of Polk County is developing a pilot data set of parcels using FGDC core standard, to be distributed on the ICIT Data Repository
ICIT Data Repository revamped - https://www.iowagisdata.org/
DNR completed this summer the 1950's historical aerial photography layer for the state. Both 1950s and 1930s are available on the ISU Ortho server or NRGIS Library. Currently working on scanning and orthorectifying the 1960's data set.

Pending Projects

Pooled Technology Application for 2 FTEs for 2 years to run a state GIS service bureau - rated 3rd out of all PT projects, funding has to be allocated by legislature next spring for July 2010 start - how likely is that?

Possible Future Projects

2010 CAP Grant application, new category for ROI – IGI ROI study for cities, COGs and utilities – emphasis on economic development? – due Jan 7 2010
Possible USGS/ARRA funds for lidar and orthos - shall we develop proposal to help fund local 6" and 1' upgrades during 2010 ortho project? No RFP yet.
I-Jobs Funding ?? emphasis on local government preparation for future disasters (use results of GITA flood ROI study) and job creation (more interns?) Quarterly submittals for funding?
Collaboration on The National Map data layers and GeoPDFs for Iowa - TNM will work on Iowa during 2010
Collaborate more with County Engineer Service Bureau to help county engineers use lidar elevation data
Crowdsourcing workshop? Spring 2010? City of Leon? Be there with your I-Phone or GPS!

Projects looking for funding

2010 NAIP - will additional federal funding become available for 1 m color? Can Iowa get together additional $100k for 4^th infrared band? Or look to 2011 for next scheduled NAIP flight?
Hydrography – NHD conflation on lidar-derived stream network from floodplain work
Geocoding Phase 2 – address points for 50 or so remaining counties, apply for PT funding in July 2010, for July 2011 project continuation
County GIS Service Bureau - 4 FTEs requiring about $300k per year of ongoing funding