1. SDI Update October 2, 2018 SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT
SOMMET SUR LES INFRASTRUCTURES DE DONNÉES SPATIALES

2. The SDI is a Corporate Service
Data Innovation Program
DataBC
Data Science Partnerships
Provides big picture view of complex issues affecting B.C. citizens
Provides secure analytics environment for integrated cross-ministry data
Manages a corporate privacy framework for analytics
Works with ministries on sharing data across government (enterprise data) and with the public (open data)
Provides leadership and support for data management, policy, standards, literacy, security, etc.
Manages applications and tools to find and use government data
Facilitates cross-government, citizen journey data projects
Bolsters data science capacity through co- designed:
Community of Practice
Data Science Fellowship

3. Geographic Data BC Geographic Warehouse:
Oracle database containing more than 1,700 layers of enterprise, public and open geospatial data
Load balanced with failover redundancy

4. Geographic Data Added BC critical infrastructure data
Evacuation alerts and orders data
Population dataset informing evacuations
Local parks, greenspaces and conservation areas
34,000 square km of orthophotos
Maintaining
More than 205,000 km of demographic and resource roads
More than 196,000 km of fresh water data
Supporting
Adoption of ParcelMapBC parcel fabric
Adoption of new vertical height datum (in effect 2019)
Developed LIDAR acquisition guidelines for flood risk

5. Geographic Data Discovery
BC Data Catalogue:
Providing tools to discover, learn about and explore BC datasets, APIs and applications
Over 370 registered Catalogue editors describing more than 3,500 datasets
1,785 geographic, 985 public

6. Geographic Data Access
iMapBC:
A web-based HTML5 map application used by GIS analysts and program specialists
BC Map Services:
Open standard (WMS, WFS) via Geoserver
Esri JSON via ArcGIS Server
BC Location Services:
Geocoder, Route Planner, etc.
API Gateway, multi-noded

7. Map Platforms & Frameworks
Configurable, cost effective map solutions available to ministries
Three options:
Internet Mapping Framework 2
BC Map Hub (Esri ArcGIS Online)
Simple Map Kit
Access to corporate data and services

8. SDI Road Map Highlights
Migrate from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Pro
Adapting to Esri no longer supporting dynamic map services
Catalogue UI improvements, data supplier dashboard and improved search
New Spatial Overlay Service API
Develop next-generation route planner supporting truck route permitting
Integrating BC Location Services into BC Map Hub
Evaluate ArcGIS Portal for map solutions involving personal/sensitive data
Launch feature-complete open source Simple Map Kit

9. Some Use Cases BC Active Wildfire Map WorkBC Jobs API BC Childcare Map
Health Diagnostic Facilities Map
BC Economic Atlas
VanConnect Open 311

10. Thank you! Merci! Colin.Newall@gov.bc.ca