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VGIN Advisory Board Meeting

January 8, 2007

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Organizational Changes• VGIN Coordinator

• New Staff– Sam Hall, Geospatial Projects Manager– Stu Blankenship, Geospatial Projects Manager

(starting January 10)

• Two GIS Data Analysts (soon to be advertised)

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2002 VBMP Product Licensing

• VGIN is removing licensing restrictions– User input heavily in favor– Experience has shown it to be restrictive– Product is almost 5 years old– Rand Corp. study: “Mapping The Risks”

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2002 VBMP Product Licensing• What does this mean?

– “Release from License Agreement”

• Local Jurisdictions can distribute as they see fit

• State Agencies can distribute to their business partners as needed

• VGIN will distribute regional and statewide datasets by request as resources allow

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2002 VBMP Products• One meter statewide product

– Boxed set of six DVDs

• High Resolution Imagery– Statewide: three external hard drives

• 750 gigabytes each

• Custom requests filled as resources allow

• Available through web services

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Orthophotography for Schools

• GIS Software and Secondary Schools– ESRI & Dept. of Education license agreement

• “Geospatial Instructional Applications Initiative”

– Currently 495 schools have been given software (ArcView)

• VGIN wants to provide a One Meter VBMP DVD set to each school receiving ArcView

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FEMA Update• Dialog with FEMA contacts

– Flood Plain Map Modernization Program

• Utilization of 2002 VBMP Orthos as a Base Map for FEMA Updates

• FEMA interest contributing to Contour data development for 2007 VBMP– Currently comparing planned VBMP data

development with FEMA needs

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Metadata Portal Toolkit• “…oversee the development of a catalog of

GIS data available in the Commonwealth.” – § 2.2-2026 Code of Virginia

• Metadata Portal Toolkit will fulfill this mandate– Will allow check in, check out, and browsing of

geospatial metadata– Will provide training to state and local

government– Timeframe for completion: April 2007

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Metadata Portal

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Current Project Status• Road Centerlines - RCL

• Emergency Management Mapping Application – EMMA

• 2006 / 2007 VBMP Orthophotography

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Road Centerline Project• Local Updates: 42 % of Localities received

and processed• Providing VDOT with updates

– Working with VDOT on data exchange & updates

• Project on schedule and under budget

• January-February: visit localities to obtain feedback and share regional datasets

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Current Project Status• Road Centerlines - RCL

• Emergency Management Mapping Application – EMMA

• 2006 / 2007 VBMP Orthophotography