Enterprise GIS Current Status and Lessons Learned

1. Enterprise GISCurrent Status and Lessons Learned Allen Sparks Enterprise GIS Program Resource Information Services Division (RISD) National Information Services Center (NISC) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)

2. What is an Enterprise? USS Arizona • a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky • readiness to engage in daring or difficult action : initiative <showed great enterprise in dealing with the crisis> • a unit of economic organization or activity; abusiness organization • A purposeful activity http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enterprise

3. EGIS – Two Definitions Petrified Forest • “integrated geospatial technology infrastructure delivering spatial information products, services, and standard data sets to all functional elements and business processes of the organization.” • “the complete organizational approach to sharing, using and managing geospatial information”.

4. EGIS - Major Objectives Buffalo River Ensure the NPS is moving in a unified direction with a common purpose, and in alignment with DOI and Federal initiatives; Provide infrastructure for sharing core data across the service; Reduce the number of "islands”of applications and data; Enable interoperability and scalability; Minimize duplication of effort; and Promote sharing of knowledge and expertise

5. EGIS - Major Objectives -Reprioritized Buffalo River Provide infrastructure for sharing core data across the service; Enable interoperability and scalability; Promote sharing of knowledge and expertise Reduce the number of "islands”of applications and data; Minimize duplication of effort; and Ensure the NPS is moving in a unified direction with a common purpose, and in alignment with DOI and Federal initiatives;

6. EGIS Guiding Principles • Data subject-matter experts generally reside in park-based field offices; • Parks and Regions are the primary editors for most EGIS themes; • Park GIS Specialists require tools and documentation in order to adopt common data standards, and guidance on their use and implementation; • Data stewardship will be interdisciplinary in nature, requiring contributions of many program areas; • GIS processing performance is best when users access locally-stored data;

7. EGIS Guiding Principles (continued) • An effective NPS EGIS strategy must consider the distributed nature of parks, staff, and projects within the NPS. NPS heterogeneity is incompatible with simplistic "one size fits all" solutions, such as centralizing applications, resources, or park data storage. • To be successful, EGIS must focus on eliminating disparity (i.e. standardizing) in data schema and implementing an effective data distribution system that synchronizes and integrates park-based datasets into service-wide versions. • These integrated standardized datasets will be located on EGIS servers, and will provide the primary means to deliver data to external systems such as FMSS, web-based mapping applications, and the NPS Data Store.

8. Jefferson National Expansion EGIS Program Components • EGIS Subcommittee • Chartered by the GISC to research, collaborate, and advise on the development of an NPS-wide GIS. • Representation from Regions, Parks and Programs • A forum for learning, testing, communicating and providing guidance to the GIS community about the technology • EGIS Support • EGIS • server-based technologies and tools and related knowledge and experience needed to deploy GIS services for use by the user community http://egis.nps.gov

9. George Washington Carver EGIS – Current Status Basic Goals • Manage enterprise data layers • Provide high performing services • Develop partner applications Assumptions • GIS and partner programs develop & steward data layers • OCIO & partners provide infrastructure • Partners sponsor app. development • Systems and services align with EA premises and IT policy

10. EGIS Architecture Components • Infrastructure • Servers, software • Data • Standards-based • NPS-wide (Enterprise) layers • Services • Support Services • Cloud services • Mapping • Applications • NPMap web mapping

11. Booker T. Washington Infrastructure • Objectives • Develop internal & public infrastructures • Partner with Programs, Regions, Parks • Operate/Maintain OCIO EGIS & support partners • Activities/Accomplishments • Servers: 30+ Denver, 1 DC (CRGIS), • Infrastructure integration • Tech. support and documentation • Operate / Maintain • Public-facing infrastructure in progress

12. Technical Architecture Clients Application ArcGIS Explorer Web Browsers NPMap Mobile Clients ArcGIS Desktop Google Earth OGC Clients Sharepoint Services Web Services ArcGIS Server License Server Data ArcSDE File Geodatabases SQL Server SQL Server Storage AML CW150 … NPMAP Tile Cache

13. National Register Data • Objectives • Sustain existing data activities • Leverage GIS standards process • Align enterprise schema with standards • Adapt existing projects and layers • Improve guidance and QA/QC • Activities • Buildings data collection • Develop and host data for sponsored projects • Update legacy data • New layers - Trails

14. Manassas Data Layers Available or in Work • Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Sites & Features • Buildings • Civil War & Civil Rights Sites, • Federal Lands to Parks (Sites) • Land & Water Conservation Fund sites • Facilities Trails; Maintained Landscapes • NAIP Indices 2003-2007 • Nat. Heritage Areas & Scenic Byways • National Scenic Trails • NPS Regions and Units • National Rivers Inventory • Wild & Scenic Rivers; Shorelines • …

15. Muir Woods Services • Objectives • Use Services Oriented Architecture (web services) • Develop / deploy standard, reusable, high- performing services • Activities/Accomplishments • Support Services • Sharepoint site, Support Request Process • Software Download, Data Upload • License Services ( ArcGIS, PFO, ERDAS, GeoExpress) • GISLIC.NPS.GOV, GISLICDC.NPS.GOV, PFOLICENSE.NPS.GOV • GeoExpress Encoding Services (3TB) • Basemap (Cloud) Services • Virtual Earth aka Bing Maps for Enterprise • ArcGIS Online basemaps • ArcGIS Mapping services http://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/services

16. Manassas Services Available / in Work • Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Sites • Building points and polygons • Civil Rights & Civil War Sites • Facilities Trails; Maintained Landscapes • Federal Lands to Parks (Sites) • Hydrology, Watersheds (EPA) • Land & Water Conservation Fund sites • NAIP Availability by Quarter Quadrangle • National Heritage Areas • National Scenic Trails • NPS Regions and Units • National Rivers Inventory • Scenic Byways • USGS Quadrangles • Wild & Scenic Rivers

17. Hawai’i Volcanoes Application Architecture • Objectives • Support for common web browser clients • Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari • Provide high performance web mapping • Develop standard, reusable application GUI elements • Support for multiple client-side technologies • Flash/Flex, Silverlight & Javascript • Extensible to meet project requirements • Activities/Accomplishments • NPMap application framework • modular reusable programming code http://insidemaps.nps.gov

18. Current EGIS Projects / NPMap Applications • Civil War Web Mapping ( 150th anniversary website ) • Abandoned Mine Lands • Federal Lands to Parks • Land and Water Conservation Fund • Wild and Scenic Rivers • National Trails System • Wild and Scenic Rivers • Remote Sensing (NAIP Indices) • Facilities (Buildings, Maintained Landscapes) • Fire (RAVAR) • Ocean and Coastal • Park Trails (DOI Trails Solution Architecture - TBD)

19. Catoctin Mountain Lessons Learned • NPS is a loosely-coupled collection of Enterprises • A high-performing EGIS requires adequate and highly-available infrastructure. • Don’t underestimate the costs and staffing requirements • Configuration and change management are essential • Keep a separate test and development environment for data, services and application development • Don’t try to build your own ArcGIS Server basemap unless you have very few users • Use cloud services whenever possible

20. Vietnam Veterans Lessons Learned (continued) • Use load balancing for fault tolerance, scalability and performance • Use virtual machines for fault tolerance and scalability • Don’t rely on ESRI’s ‘project on the fly’ for delivering mapping services

21. Vietnam Veterans Lessons Learned (continued) • Keep it simple • If you have a relatively small group of users, ArcGIS Server may be overkill. ArcGIS Explorer and layer package files may meet your needs. • ArcSDE is appropriate for data development efforts that require Multiple Simultaneous Editors. Otherwise, File Geodatabases are easier to maintain. • ArcGIS services perform best with multiple servers and multiplexed databased on File Geodatabases with simplified (non-relational schema).

22. ArcGIS services perform best with multiple servers and multiplexed databases on File Geodatabases with simplified (non-relational) schema.

23. Vietnam Veterans Future Efforts • Caching in the “Cloud” • Use newly awarded ‘Content Delivery Network’ • NPMap javascript modules, Silverlight, flash files • Pre-rendered map tiles • Provide NPS Enterprise data to mapping vendors (Google, Microsoft, etc) • NPS boundaries are included in ESRI World Topo • Deploy NPS services in the Cloud

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