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Geog 458: Map Sources and Errors

Geog 458: Map Sources and Errors. Contextualizing Geospatial Data January 6, 2006. Outlines. Introduction: Why geospatial data? Why geospatial metadata standards? NSDI: backgrounds Three national cross-agency initiatives FGDC, Geospatial One Stop The National Map

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Geog 458: Map Sources and Errors

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  1. Geog 458:Map Sources and Errors Contextualizing Geospatial Data January 6, 2006

  2. Outlines • Introduction: Why geospatial data? • Why geospatial metadata standards? • NSDI: backgrounds • Three national cross-agency initiatives • FGDC, • Geospatial One Stop • The National Map • Conclusion: the Vision of NSDI Appendix: spatial, geographic, geospatial

  3. 1. Geospatial data • Think where geospatial data is used • Overriding concerns of today? Climate change Environmental protection Disaster recovery Growth management Homeland security Emergency Management

  4. Transformation from data to information Environment Data Information Decision Making Representation Analytics Presentation geovisualization Data modeling Query PPGIS Measurement Analysis Reference system Modeling

  5. 2. Geospatial metadata standards http://www.fgdc.gov/

  6. Scenario • There is no data • There is data, but no metadata • There is data and metadata, but not sure what is described in metadata • There is data and metadata, and I understand what is described in metadata, but the way of data documentation differs across data

  7. Finally, you have data and metadata and content standard, so you can decide whether data is suitable for a problem • This is what CSDGM does! • CSDGM (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata) includes seven contents as follows

  8. What’s in CSDGM • 1 Identification Information • 2 Data Quality Information • 3 Spatial Data Organization Information • 4 Spatial Reference Information • 5 Entity and Attribute Information • 6 Distribution Information • 7 Metadata Reference Information

  9. Metadata: how it works • Used to provide information to data users • Fitness of use of data • Can be indexed for search • Finding data in data clearinghouse • Ensures the quality of data • Data developers should document what has been done to the data

  10. 3. NSDI: backgrounds • Timeline • Problems • Strategies • Core components of NSDI

  11. Timeline of NSDI • 1989-90 FGDC formed • 1994 NSDI formed by Presidential Executive Order 12906 • 2001 OMB Circular A-16 updated • 2002 E-Gov Initiatives (Geospatial One-Stop)

  12. FGDC’s statement of problem • Geographic data collection is expensive • Most of data are duplicated • Sharing data is difficult • Public access to data is a concern • Datasets are poorly documented • If finding and sharing geographic data were easier and more widespread, the economic benefits to the nation could be enormous

  13. Addressing problems… • Share the data to eliminate duplication efforts  partnerships • Document datasets  metadata • Provide base data  framework data • Unify the format of data and metadata  standards • Make access to data easier  clearinghouse

  14. Clearinghouse (catalog) Metadata GEOdata Framework Standards Core components of NSDI Partnerships

  15. Do-it-yourself now! • Browse fgdc.gov to answer the following questions • According to FGDC-STD-001-1998 (CSDGM), which contents are mandatory? • What are seven NSDI framework themes? • How does clearinghouse work? For example, does the search result let you download data? What kinds of data are usually available? More specifically, are they mainly public data or private data? • How is the clearinghouse different from GOS (Geospatial One-Stop)?

  16. 4. National cross-agency initiatives • FGDC • Geospatial One Stop • The National Map • What are they? • How do they fit together?

  17. FGDC • Inter-agency committee responsible for the implementation of the NSDI Fgdc.gov

  18. Geospatial One-Stop • Created as one of the e-government initiatives to provide federal and state agencies with a single point of access to geographic information Geodata.gov

  19. The National Map • The vision of creating up-to-date base topographic data by USGS with partnerships Nationalmap.gov Do you know how old USGS topographic data (e.g. National Atlas of the United States) are on average?

  20. How do they fit together? • They shares the same goal with distinctive roles • FGDC ties it together • GOS provides portal for discovery • TNM forms the base • Clear division of roles are desirable • FGDC: policy, standards, and advocacy • GOS: discovery and access • TNM: integrated, certified base mapping content

  21. 5. The Vision of NSDI • What is NSDI? • What are tenets of NSDI?

  22. What is NSDI? • The technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data

  23. Tenets of NSDI • Assures that spatial data from multiple sources (federal, state, local, and tribal governments, academia, and the private sector) are available and easily integrated to enhance the understanding of our physical and cultural world

  24. Spatial, geographic, geospatial • Geospatial has been used since mid-1990s especially among government agency to describe data activities • e.g. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Formerly National Imagery and Mapping Agency: NIMA) • Geospatial has more of technology and data concepts compared to spatial or geographic • e.g. geospatial science =/= geoscience

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