National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Building Footprint Data Collection and Processing Allen Sparks Enterprise GIS Program Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Presentation Outline History of the Buildings Standard Buildings Data Model Implementation Initial Data Collection Efforts Lessons learned Next Steps

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference History of the Buildings Standard Buildings chosen as “low-hanging fruit” Standards team formed Standard developed through multi- year process Regional GIS programs agree to support effort Implementation started FY2007

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Buildings Data Model Original Model

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Buildings Data Model Implemented Model

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Initial Data Collection Geodatabase & Shapefile templates Rudimentary Upload/Download Workflow Simple Summary Statistics Documentation Support (Contact Form)

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Access to External Data FMSS –Read-only Direct Access to Oracle DB –SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to Replicate Data. (Session 19) Efficient & Easily Repeatable LCS –Unable to Obtain Direct Access –Manual Extract/Transform/Load Generate 3 Reports – Save as Access97 Load from Access97 into SQL Server Inefficient & Error-Prone

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Creating Park Templates Model Builder used to: Query FMSS & LCS extracts Create schema and relationships VBScript generated Command line wrapper 4-6 hours to create templates for all parks

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Download / Upload Active Directory Organizational Unit –EGIS “OU” –Park Groups used for Access Control –Scripts for creation and management of groups –Read, or Edit (Upload) Access –Folder structure with Access Control Lists (ACLs) containing EGIS Groups

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Download / Upload Active Directory Organizational Unit

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Download / Upload EGIS Contacts Table –Simple Table in SQL Server – Doesn’t Support 1:Many User:Park relationships –“Primary” users get Upload access ‘Data Grabber” Web Page –Integrated Windows Authentication –User selects Park, then Dataset –Uploaded data placed in folder – sent to RIMD Staff –All transactions logged

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference EGIS Contacts Table

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Download / Upload Overview

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Download / Upload Overview

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference NPS System Viewer insidemaps.nps.gov/npssystemviewer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Completion Statistics ( ) Region FMSS Buildings EGIS Buildings AKRO IMRO MWRO NCRO NERO PWRO SERO

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Lessons Learned Database Model –Highly “Normalized” is good for data integrity, but increases complexity of data development; –Solutions: Simplify the Model; Develop Tools for Loading and Validating Data; –Tools would need to be Model-Specific Generalize the Model and develop tools –** Reusable Model and Tools **

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Lessons Learned Database Model –Requests for minor revisions to standard Polygon_Type, Point_Type Map_Method Position_Error Opportunity to simplify model Remove Subtypes Move link fields to Buildings Table –Some re-coding of data required –Implications for data distribution need to deliver transformed data back to the field

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Lessons Learned Data Collection and Distribution –Download / Upload is labor intensive –** Current process does not support delivery of existing Building Footprints to parks –Current Solution is Not Scalable / Sustainable for Multiple Simultaneous Theme Collection Efforts –Solutions: Improve Download / Upload Process (Interim) Use Distributed Geodatabase technology –Leverage Lessons Learned by Dave Best –Collaboration with Army Corps of Engineers

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Lessons Learned Data Display –Basemap Performance It is not feasible to develop a service-wide basemap with reasonable performance A commercial-service is required Currently using ESRI ArcWebServices

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Next Steps Database Standard and Model –Publish comments and responses to proposed standard revision –Final revision to model –Publish on Data Store –Transform Existing Data into New Model

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Evolution of the Model

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Next Steps Data Collection / Distribution –Revise Process for Generating GDBs –Generate New GDBs and Shapefiles –Update Documentation –Begin a new Data Collection Cycle

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Next Steps Data Display –Revisions to System Viewer See Session 24 (Nate Irwin) –ArcGIS 9.3 Services –Microsoft Virtual Earth Basemap

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Future “Generic” Standard Park Media

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Services Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 2008 GIS & Data Management Conference Questions?