1 Delaware GIS Conference 2006 Patterns of Change The Pennsylvania Story Jim Knudson Deputy CIO, Environmental Community of Practice Stacey White Director, Geospatial Technologies Office

2 PA Patterns of Change Change occurs in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Geospatial Community on a DAILY basis (mostly good), making us all a little CRAZY! At the state level, the following are occuring: –Organizational Changes –Geospatial Responsibilities Grow –Governance Changes –Geospatial Shared Services Model –Geospatial Standards –Public Safety/Homeland Security Developments –Enterprise Geospatial Data Projects The Geospatial Evolution…

3 Organizational Changes GTO survived a third OIT reorganization and a third office move in April (3 moves in 30 months) Did not get to hire any new staff (previously staffed at 2, now 1.5, will hire 3 this next year) Jim was promoted to Deputy CIO, Environmental Community of Practice (EnviroCoP) BGT was reorganized to become the Geospatial Technologies Office, reports to EnviroCoP Stacey White was promoted to GTO Director Will be hiring a GT Project Manager, Senior Application Developer, and Database/Systems Administrator in next 6 months

4 Organizational Changes GTO Operational Budget dropped by more than 1/3 for next year, requiring program cuts Line item for PAMAP costs in Budget for first time ($4M) Recognition by Secretary of Administration and Governor’s Office on importance of Geospatial Technologies (Governor’s office uses our legislative geocoding application DAILY!) No new HLS grants next year for GTO, but have plenty to complete this year Potential for new funding and staffing for FY 2007?

5 Geospatial Responsibilities Coordination –30 Agencies in state government –County GIS Professionals formed –Coordination with local government associations –More coordination with surrounding states Planning –Strategic and Tactical Plans – 3 year Strategic Plan is on GTO website –Geospatial Job Classifications Enterprise Geospatial Data Needs –Priorities –Strategy –Budget

6 Geospatial Responsibilities Operations –Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture Enterprise Geospatial Database Geospatial Application Hosting Servers –Geospatial Applications HLS Geospatial Portals (GTO) Agency Applications OGC Mapping Services Geospatial Web Services Policy/Standards Budget and Administrative Tasks

7 Geospatial Governance Changes PA Geographic Information Council/Geospatial Technologies Council voted to disband (user group) Geospatial Communities of Practice (GeoCoPa) continues in its place –Divided into four communities: Public Safety Health and Human Services Environmental General Government Operations –Will be project driven – standards, best practices, research and development, applications –Opportunities for external entities to collaborate with state agencies –Quarterly meetings, external participation invited

8 Governance Changes Statewide Geospatial Council …coming… –Reviewed several drafts of legislative language –Administration has concerns over policy vs. advisory, funding, resources, prefers to “Do It Right” instead of “Do It Fast”, with consensus based approach

9 Definition of Shared Services A standards and policy-based strategy for implementing innovative business solutions in a way that reduces overall cost, duplication, and redundant solutions by identifying and meeting priority business needs and maintaining service level agreements. Knudson, 2006 Why reinvent the wheel… Didn’t we just do that… Most servers only use 8% of their cpu capacity… If you build it, they will come…

10 Geospatial Shared Services Model The following Commonwealth Geospatial Shared Services are available through the Geospatial Technologies Office (GTO): –State Geospatial Clearinghouse (PASDA) - Public –Enterprise Data Licenses** –Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture Information Sharing** Application Hosting** Geospatial Portals** Geospatial Web Services** –Project Portfolio ** - indicates governmental and first responder access, not public access

11 PA Spatial Data Access (PASDA) Services continue to expand and improve every year! Act as an extension to GTO staff, part of our team Loading “gobs” of imagery for public access –PAMAP – 2003, 2004, 2005 –NAIP Color Infrared Statewide TIFFs (not MrSID) –Ivan Flooding Imagery TIFFs –Delaware Flooding Aerial Images Continue to make improvements in the user interface Metadata support for everyone

12 Enterprise Data Licenses TeleAtlas Enterprise License –GIS Data Layers for Mapping and Analysis –Address Geocoding –Routing/Driving Directions –Census Data Places2Protect – finalizing data delivery –Places where people congregate –Elderly and youth populations –Service centers Real-Time Weather Data – almost there Major utilities – oil/gas transmission, electrical transmission, chemical – working on licensing

13 Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA) Fault tolerant, high availability, 24x7 operational capabilities built for mission critical public safety applications that supports: –Enterprise Geospatial Database (Oracle/ArcSDE) –Shared Services GT Application hosting environment – for GTO and other agencies –OGC Mapping Services for information sharing –XML Web Services Reusable Components –Geospatial Portal Deployments Linchpin in GTO’s strategy for geospatial shared services – paid for with Homeland Security Grants

15 Geospatial Application Hosting Services GESA provides: –Direct access to enterprise geospatial database –Fault-tolerant, network load balanced application servers –Leverage GTO ESRI and other software licenses (ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, Citrix server for a license pool containing ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView, and most extensions for desktop environment) –Managed Services environment (support)

16 Geospatial Application Hosting GTO is hosting GTO applications and other agency applications in the GESA: –Community and Economic Development –Governor’s Office –Health –Labor and Industry –PEMA Coming Attractions: –Agriculture? –Insurance? –OHS? –PSP?

17 Geospatial Portal Development Leverages the IRRIS Geospatial Framework for Pennsylvania (developed by GeoDecisions) –$15M Investment in IRRIS by the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Traffic Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA) –Enables rapid deployment of portal applications –Being adopted by DHS and being used by other states First PA geospatial portal was the Geospatial Analysis of Threats and Incident Reports (GATIR) GATIR Enhancements Project will add more functionality, new GATIR Portals for Transportation and Health (SNS/Pandemic)

18 Geospatial Web Services GTO currently offers XML web service applications for: –Address Verification/Validation –Address Geocoding –Data Loading into ArcSDE (point features, using lat/long) –Boundary Geocoding –Mapping –Routing/Driving Directions Planning new web services for: –Spatial Search/Query –Gazetteer –Plume Modeling

19 Geospatial Web Services Documented on GTO website under Enterprise GIS Web Services Link – Developer Integration Guides (DIGs): DIGs include how to register for access to services, error messages, input and output XML interfaces, and sample source code on how to call services in VB.NET / ASP.NET

20 Geospatial Standards Geospatial Software Standard – reduce proliferation of products and controlled evaluation and use of new products Geospatial Interoperability Standard – governs use of licensed geospatial products and requirements for sharing of geospatial products County Code Standard – more than 10 in use in PA, will adopt FIPS, delegated to Enterprise Architecture Information Domain Team (EAIDT) Addressing Standard – affiliated with “Citizen Data Model” initiative (EAIDT) PA Geospatial Data Sharing Standard – developing a data model for data sharing of framework layers

21 Public Safety/Homeland Security Strategies and Projects GTO has received $4.0M HLS grant funding over past 3 years (plus $300K CDC/HRSA funds, FHWA earmarks from ) GT Advisory Committee (policy) includes primary public safety agencies GTO has published a homeland security strategy as part of state homeland security assessment and strategy document GTO has gained credibility with public safety community on data sharing and application delivery through the enterprise geospatial database and geospatial portal applications

22 Homeland Security Projects SHSP 2004 – Severe Weather Alerting and Plume Modeling ($1.5M) ITEP 2004 ($600K) –Competitive, Enterprise Geospatial Technologies Data Architecture (EGTDA), Geospatial Analysis of Threats and Incident Reports (GATIR) portal, mapping services, web services SHSP 2005 ($1.87M) –PAMAP Funding –Federated GIS Project –PGDSS Local Roads Pilot Project –GATIR Enhancements –Health Geospatial Portal (SNS/Pandemic/Hospital Status) –Utilities/Critical Infrastructure –Places2Protect Enterprise License

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31 Information Sharing Strategy Agencies and External Business Partners Enterprise GT Database Data Providers Data, metadata Public PASDA Data, metadata, mapping services ESRI and OGC Mapping Services

32 Information Sharing Enterprise Geospatial Database consolidates Commonwealth geospatial data holdings Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Mapping Services (interoperable) –Currently 12 different function-based services (Administrative Boundaries; Public and Commercial Facilities; Hydrography; Energy, Municipal and Utility Infrastructure; Water Infrastructure; Law Enforcement and Emergency Response; Natural Areas and Parks; Airports, Airfields and Heliports; Bridges and Tunnels; Ports and Waterways; Roads) –ESRI and OGC (interoperable) mapping services –Web Mapping Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS) –Imagery web services coming in the near future

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34 The Geospatial Evolution… Dangermond’s Law: GIS/GT can never be mastered because it is always changing. Knudson’s Corollaries: –Listen and learn, apply best practices –Continue to evaluate and prioritize your needs daily –Develop a long term vision, plan, and strategy –Work within the boundaries of your plan –Remain agile, roll with the changes –Evolve in the direction you choose, not chosen for you –Measure your results, never settle for status quo –Progress often cannot be measured daily, but small steps must be made daily –Learn from your mistakes, document lessons learned

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