Indiana NHD - Geographic Names Information System Updates March 1, 2011 Lacey Duncan Environmental Manager - DNR Water

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Introduction History of Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) in the United States GNIS updates to the Indiana National Hydrography Dataset

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Need for the Standardization of Geographic Names Late 19 th Century  Surge in the demand of mapping and scientific reporting because of mining, exploration, and settlement of the West  Inconsistencies and contradiction among names and spellings  Became a serious detriment to mapmakers and scientists who required uniform and non-conflicting geographic nomenclature

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Standardization of Geographic Names Widely available nationally Strongly related to local usage Contributes to savings and efficiency in:  Government  Business & Industry  Communications  Education

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships US Board on Geographic Names Harrison Recognition that conflicts in naming geographic feature were a serious detriment to the orderly process of exploring and settling the country Roosevelt Extended the Boards responsibility to include the standardization of all geographic names for Federal use Truman Signed into Public Law

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships US Board on Geographic Name  Function under Department of Interior  National network of State and academic authorities  Conjointly establish and maintain uniform geographic names for Federal Government  Work to improve body of names by approving new names and changing existing in a responsible manner

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Proposing a Name for Unnamed Domestic Features US Board does not initiate naming of unnamed features Any person or organization, public or private may submit a proposal Board coordinates with local, State, and Federal agencies to determine  Appropriateness  Acceptability  Need (relative to feature, location, and community)

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Guidelines for Proposing New Names Recommended Kinds of Proposed Names Duplication of Names Recommended Name Form Qualifying Words in Names Generic Terms Personal Names Wilderness Areas Lands Administered by State and Local Jurisdictions Derogatory Names

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Submitting a Name Proposal  Propose or Change Name  Feature Information  Supporting Materials  States and Counties  Geographic Coordinates  Administrative Areas  Maps and Documents with name  Other Names and Their Source  Authorities  Submitters and/or Preparers

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Indiana GNIS Updates to NHD

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Indiana GNIS Updates GNIS Corrections for High-resolution NHD $25,000 Grant from US Geological Survey Critical step prior to upgrading NHD to local resolution Correct names in GNIS Match GNIS names to NHD Features Add missing names, fix bad names

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Obtaining the Data Check Out NHD database from USGS Complete review Submit to David Nail Submit to USGS Accepted by USGS Loaded into NHD Database

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Data Needed NHDFlowlines NHDWaterbody GNIS Data  Point  Polyline HUC 8 Basin USGS Quadrangle Maps Imagery

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Indiana GNIS Data 33,000 Point Features 355 Line Features To begin GNIS review: -Data should be clipped to Basin

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Prepping Data Create New Field “IGIC_Checked” Select All Features- “Not Checked” Join features with GNIS- matched features “Checked” Select all features outside State border- “Skipped – Outside State”

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Searching for Errors

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Error GNIS Exists in Database

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Changes to NHD Fixed- Incorrect GNIS Missing GNIS- No GNIS but exists on QUAD Skipped- Outside of State

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Status Table Updated Any changes are noted in the NHDStatus table The COMID is entered into the Status table Submitted to David Nail before final submission to USGS

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Status of Updates HUC NameHUC 8 Upper Wabash Little Calumet- Galien Mississinewa St. Joseph (MI) Eel (WR) St. Joseph (OH) Middle Wabash- Deer St. Marys Middle Wabash- Little Vermilion Upper Maumee Vermilion Auglaize Middle Wabash- Busseron Upper Great Miami Highland-Pigeon Lower Great Miami Kankakee Whitewater Iroquois Middle Ohio- Laughery Chicago

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Sources Orth, Donald J. and Roger L. Payne. Domestic Names - Principles, Policies, and Procedures. Online Edition (revised) June Web. Monmonier, Mark. Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy. New York: Print. US Department of the Interior. Geographic Names Information System – GNIS. USGS. 03 January Web.