Denver Regional Data Consortium

September 2012

Agenda Welcome and introductions

10:15 – 10:20 Tips and Guidance on the other steps in the

subcommittee lifecycle 10:20- 10:25 – Data Dash Idea

10:25 – 11:10 - Updates from active subcommittees

Updates on outside initiatives: Dianna Anderson– 11:10-11:40

Colorado Information Marketplace: https://data.colorado.gov/

Greg Matthews (USGS) – 11:40 to noon

Revisiting the Subcommittee Lifecycle

Project Lifecycle1. Set an Objective2. Develop of Schedule3. Develop a Data Model4. Develop a Data Merge Plan5. Build the Data6. QAQC7. Develop Metadata8. Develop a Data Sharing Plan9. Develop an Update Plan10. Publish to Regional Data Catalog11. Celebrate Success!!!12. Dissolve Subcommittee13. Focus on Next Dataset/

Subcommittee Priority

Project LifecycleStep 4 Developing a Data Merge Plan

Who does this apply to: Subcommittees that are compiling information from local jurisdictions

Tip: Consult Tech Team

Project LifecycleStep 5 & 6 Building and QAQCing

the Data Tip: Consider interactive,

collaborative work sessions. Online collaboration – Google Docs Work Webinars Co-locate …anything to get together and

actually work through a problem/create data

Data Dash Initiative What: A collaborative work session

When: Nov. 2, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Metro State College - Geography Computer Lab

Topic: Common Spaces

Who should attend: Local experts and anyone who has knowledge or interest in Open Spaces in our region

Why: To fill in gaps, fix geometries, and complete attribution for a regional Open Spaces dataset Keep in mind:

The goal is to end the day with a regional dataset. If you can’t be there to contribute data, we’ll have to fill it in somehow.

This dataset informs our land use model and is used for many of the forecasts that DRCOG provides to our member governments. Help us help you by attending and helping us make more accurate data!

Subcommittee Updates

Common Spaces DRCOG Chair:

Robin Reilley

Co-Chair: ???

Accomplishments: ready to create data!

Challenges: Produce a regional Open Space Layer at the Data Dash

Schedule: Data Upload for Dash

Next Meeting: TBD

Common Spaces Accomplishments:

1. Met with Tech Team on needs assessment. Came up with Data Dash idea.

2. Finalized data schema

3. Sent out Data Dash instructions

4. Received data from Colorado State Parks.

Common Spaces Schedule:

October 1 Upload your open space data

October 1-31 DRCOG will do an assessment of uploaded data to determine high priorities areas to work on in the Data Dash

November 2 Data Dash!

Common Spaces If you're interested in attending, please RSVP by Oct. 19 to

Robin Reilley at rreilley@drcog.org.

Send us your Open Spaces data by Oct. 1 . We'll analyze it to find the high-priority areas to fix so that we can hit the ground running during the Data Dash. You can load data here: ftp://ftp.drcog.org/1_CommonSpaces_Data/ Contact Robin Reilley for upload information If you think it might be helpful upload your Open Space Plan to reference during

the Data Dash Check out the regional Open Space Plan.

Tell your friends! All who are interested are welcome to participate.

Built EnvironmentDRCOG Chair: Christine ConnallyCo-Chair: Kirk Hayer

In the process of improving Building Types for the Buildings table

Preliminary Model Run and Prioritizing the data Purchasing data Please submit your building types and definitions of buildings If anyone is interested in joining the subcommittee, please

let me know

Planimetrics Chair: Ashley Summers News:

Dissolved this group due to inability to coordinate a purchase on a regional scale.

Successes: Created a regional data model for future use. Opened lines of communication with the vendor and started cost

negotiations so jurisdictions can continue to pursue a purchase on their own.

Lessons Learned: The cost of planimetric features is high -> need to budget a year or two in

advance. Planimetric needs are complicated and varied across the region so a

regional data purchase will be challenging.

DRAPP Chair: Ashley Summers

Accomplishments All areas have been flown. All Interim Data Available in WMS 48 Partners to Date

Schedule: Final Imagery is being processed according to schedule and should be

delivered in December. Custom orders are being compiled.

Meetings: Last Meeting: June 27th (Aug. meeting cancelled and status report

emailed instead). Next Meeting: October 24th @ DRCOG

Streets Chair: Paul Tessar Co-Chair: Ashley Summers

Status: Phase 3A: Snapping to Agreement Points at County Boundaries

6 counties have already snapped; remaining 4 expected by end of ’12

Phase 3B: Agreement point creation @ City Boundaries % of Agreement Points Created – 34% % of Agreement Points in Progress – 63% % Not Started -3%

Meetings: Last Meeting: August 8, 2012 Next Meeting: TBD

Boundaries DRCOG Chair: Josh Pendleton Co-Chair: Greg Baca

Pilot Project Involving Adams, Broomfield, Denver Counties; and Commerce City

144 Boundary Discrepancies – 100 were fixed using NCR agreement points. (69.4%)

Next Meeting: Late October (Tentative)

Census DRCOG Chair: Josh Pendleton Co-Chair: Dave Murray

Met in September Identified 20 SF1 Census Tables and 78 ACS tables to download, format, and load into DRCOG’s

Regional Data Catalog. Data tables will be linkable to Census Geographies already available

DRCOG already offers Basic Census Attributes at 6 different levels of geography on the Regional Data Catalog CBSA, Tracts, Counties, Places, Block Groups, Blocks (Centroid & Polygons)

DRCOG will also make available GIS data the Census has released which includes 186 SF1 Attributes (coming soon) 4 of the geographies already available will also include the 186 attributes (CBSA, Tracts, Counties,

Places) 5 new geographies will be available (State, Zip Codes, County Subdivisions, School Districts, CSA)

Next meeting: Mid November

Tech Team DRCOG Chair: Justin Lewis Co-Chair: Allan Glen

Tech Team Mission: Support the technical needs of each subcommittee along the

subcommittee life-cycle.

Status: Planning for future needs assessments of each subcommittee. Assessing possible technology solutions to support subcommittee needs. Exploring / developing tools to automate data synchronization through

platforms like Open Colorado Excited to support the upcoming Common Spaces Data Dash!

Next Meeting: October 17, 2012

Policy Team DRCOG Chair: Ashley Summers Co-Chair: Allan Glen

Discussion Summary: Data Sharing Policy Map/Data/Metadata Standards Strategic Planning for next 5 years

Status: Working on Data Sharing Policy informational to the DRCOG board

Meetings: Last Meeting: July 11th

Next Meeting: TBD

GIS DayNovember 14th

Dianna AndersonColorado Information Marketplace

Greg MatthewsUSGS Crowdsourcing

Next DRDC Meeting:November 28