Overall Accomplishments
MetroGIS has made significant progress towards fulfilling its vision,
thanks to substantial financial and resource commitments made by the
Metropolitan Council, several hundred volunteers representing dozens of
cooperating organizations, and grants received from the National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (NSDI) program.
These accomplishments include:
- Implemented, or made substantial progress to implement,
regional solutions for nine of the
MetroGIS community's initial thirteen priority information needs:
jurisdictional boundaries; street addresses/where people live; parcels/parcel
identifiers; highway and road networks; census boundaries; lakes, wetlands,
water courses; land cover, and planned land use.
- Implemented MetroGIS
DataFinder as a registered a node of the NSDI, fully integrated into
Minnesota's GeoData Gateway, with a state-of-the-art downloading capability
(DataFinderCafé). Over 100 datasets are currently accessible via
DataFinder. Over a 1000 data downloads per month are being experienced with the
trend showing a steady increase.
- Endorsed standards for: metadata (FGDC compliant); a regional
projection and coordinate system; coding components for the jurisdictional
boundary datasets; spatial accuracy testing and reporting (FGDC compliant); and
data content standards associated with each regional information need solution.
- Executed agreements
that provide access by all government interests serving the seven county area,
without fee and subject to identical access requirements, to parcel and other
geospatial data produced by all seven metro area counties and the Metropolitan
Council.
- Recipient of URISA's 2002 prestigious
Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG)
Award for Enterprise Systems.
- Awarded Minnesota Governor's
Commendations for two "Exemplary GIS Projects" (Regional Street Centerline and
Regional Land Cover data solutions).
- Awarded ESRI's 2001 Geography Network Challenge Grand Prize for the
Transportation (web mapping) Service (www.datafinder.org/maps.asp).
- Recipient of MnAPA's Planning
Merit Award for an Outstanding Planning Tool for the
Regional Planned
Land Use dataset.
- Testified before a
U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee in conjunctio n with the 1999
National GeoData Forum.
- Maintained active involvement of key stakeholder representatives at
the policy, management, and technical levels since MetroGIS's inception in
1995.
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