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MetroGIS is an award-winning, regional geographic
information systems initiative serving the seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul
(Minnesota) metropolitan area. It provides a regional forum to promote and
facilitate widespread sharing of geospatial data. MetroGIS is a voluntary
collaboration of local and regional governments, with partners in state and
federal government, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations and
businesses.
MetroGIS is a recipient of URISA's Exemplary Systems in
Government (ESIG) Award for Enterprise Systems. See the
Awards section for more
information.
Vision
The vision for the result of MetroGIS’s efforts, or destination expected to be attained, is “organizations serving the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area are successfully collaborating to use geographic information technology to solve real world problems".
Mission
MetroGIS exists “to expand stakeholders' capacity to address shared geographic information technology needs and maximize investments in existing resources through widespread collaboration of organizations that serve the Twin Cities metropolitan area”.
Measurable Results
The collaborative community of MetroGIS recognizes the need to achieve measurable results within the following outcome areas:
- Expanded resource availability through partnering
- More efficient use of resources through reduction of duplicative costs
- More efficient and effective core stakeholder operations
- Enhanced and broadened understanding of the region
- Expanded participation by users, contributors and jurisdictions adjoining the Twin City metropolitan area
Announcements
- Next-Generation MetroGIS Needs Assessment
Phase II is in progress The objective is two-fold: 1) define specific enhancements to existing endorsed regional datasets and 2) test and evaluate on-line collaboration functionality and effectiveness to accomplish broadly supported and definitive actionable improvements to existing regional solutions. Applied Geographics (Boston) is providing the lead support as they did for Phase I of the Assessment.
Applied Geographics (aka AppGeo) headquartered in Boston, MA, is providing lead support for this study. The purpose is to investigate the practicality of a new collaborative regional model for managing street centerline data.
Upcoming Meetings, Forums, and Other Events
Please contact us - we appreciate your
comments about MetroGIS.
Terry Schneider, City of Minnetonka, A.M.M., Policy
Board Chair
David Bitner, Metropolitan Airports Commission, Coordinating
Committee Chair
Randall Johnson, MetroGIS Staff Coordinator
390 Robert Street North
Saint Paul, MN 55101
phone: 651-602-1638
fax: 651-602-1674
metrogis-contacts@metc.state.mn.us
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