1. MWCOG GIS Committee Regional Geospatial Interoperability Project Phase 1

2. Mission Provide regional and federal emergency managers the best geospatial data available irrespective of the data’s jurisdiction of origin. Systems/procedures developed should also be capable of servicing the region’s governments during normal conditions.

3. Customers 1.Emergency Managers (consumers) 2.GIS analysts who support Emergency Managers (creators, analysts)

4. Goal 1: Improve Communications Improve communications among lead GIS Analysts supporting regional Emergency and ESF Managers. –Create and maintain a roster –Participate in this committee –Participate in a workshop with Emergency Managers and their GIS support to refine regional interoperability requirements and develop a concept of operations. –Create a manual –Hold a second workshop to follow-up

5. Goal 2: Establish rules for data sharing Give credit to others for their data Provide metadata What’s reasonable during emergencies? Don’t charge regional partners Refrain from redistributing data provided by other jurisdictions. Except: –When a partner has been incapacitated –Derived products that protect the source data Direct data requests to the source jurisdiction

6. Goal 3: “As is” Data Distribution Define a list of minimum essential geospatial data sets –Data that can be shared in advance of an event. –Data that is created during or after an event. Compile a regional inventory of minimum essential geospatial –Identify missing and incomplete data sets Distribute a DVD Request resources to gather data sets identified as missing or incomplete

7. Goal 4: Establish Online Data Discovery Allow for discovery of information by creating a regional metadata repository that can collect or mine geospatial metadata from participating jurisdictions. Compatible with: Geospatial One Stop MEGAN ArcGIS Desktop (Catalog)

8. Goal 5: Establish “As is” Online Data Sharing Data from ArcGIS to WebEOC and from WebEOC to ArcGIS Create OpenGIS (WMS/WFS) or ArcIMS Web Services that at a minimum must be able to distribute information created during an event. Compatible with: –WebEOC –EMMA –ArcIMS (generically) –ArcGIS Desktop

9. Goal 6: Test “As Needed” Data Sharing Leverage the CAPSTAT grant to test and learn about Enterprise Service Bus technology. –Test for data discovery –Test for “As is” sharing –Test security –Test for on the fly transformations using XML Identify at least eight geospatial layers for this regional test.