1. GIS Experiment Understand the state of GIS across agencies What services are supported and how well? How do you find datasets? What formats are available? What tools can I use to interact with an agency? Are there examples or cookbooks? Produce a report card Why? Understand one can consume and integrate our data Identify gaps in our services Understand how each agency is proceeding How the data is available can affect how it will be used 1/8/13Geospatial Cluster

2. GIS Experiment Create a cross-agency data mashup Target initially NASA, EPA, NOAA, USGS, … Identify data sources Identify an interesting question (NCA related?) Use Open Source Tools Identify tools (GeoPortal Server, GeoServer/Mapserver, QGIS, OpenLayers, GDAL, PostGIS, …) Access to anyone Test conformance and ease of integration Anyone can repeat the experiment 1/8/13Geospatial Cluster

3. To Be Determined An interesting question to mashup a map for that crosses agencies Qualitative metrics for report card System to host the experiment on Volunteers to work on agency integration Wiki to document the experiment Identification of toolsets and data sources Something to repeat every year? 1/8/13Geospatial Cluster

4. The Plan Take a small portion of every geospatial monthly call to talk about this Deliver results iteratively Amount of work to be done will be determined by level of participation Create a poster for next ESIP Winter to discuss results 1/8/13Geospatial Cluster