See the Order
Information to learn how to obtain NCompass ( formally The Lawrence Group) Addressable Street
Centerlines .
This dataset meets more than one of the MetroGIS
community's common information needs. Click on the information needs below to
learn more about them, or to find out more about common information needs in
general, please see the About Information
Needs page.
MetroGIS's Business Information Needs
Process calls for each
regional custodian and MetroGIS to
co-sponsor Data User Forums on a reoccurring basis for each endorsed regional
dataset. The frequency of the forums is determined by MetroGIS. The purpose of
these forums is to monitor user satisfaction and identify desired or needed
enhancements to the regional data solutions, insuring they continue to address
the needs of the MetroGIS community. The history of these forums for this
dataset is as follows:
- June 3, 1998 Data User Forum
In March 1996, MetroGIS staff approached The Lawrence Group (TLG) about
the possibility of a public-private partnership that would make TLG's Street
Centerline dataset available to the MetroGIS community. In a parallel
initiative, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) had secured an independent evaluation of street centerline
data options for the "Orion" Project. The results determined that TLG's product
was the best available by a considerable margin. By mid-1997, the Metropolitan
Council and MnDOT where able to formalize a partnership to license this data
for public sector and academic interests. All of this
activity occurred before MetroGIS had finalized its Business Information Needs
process.
The MetroGIS Address Workgroup met on December
11, 1997. The Workgroup concluded addresses must be dealt with as ranges
associated with street centerlines and as attributes of parcels. The street
centerline component has been implemented for the "address for people, places,
and things" information need. See the
Parcel Boundaries
Information Need for information about the parcel component of this
information need.
On May 27, 1998, the Policy Board endorsed
TLG's street centerline dataset as a primary source of address matching for
MetroGIS. A public-private partnership between the Metropolitan Council,
Mn/DOT, and TLG provides access to this dataset by all government organizations
and four-year academic institutions that serve Minnesota. The Policy Board had
previously endorsed a document entitled "Guidelines for Working with
Address Data", developed by the MetroGIS Standards Advisory Team, for use
by the MetroGIS stakeholder community. Use of these guidelines will ensure that
the user can take full advantage of the address matching capabilities
associated with the endorsed regional street centerline dataset.
The Governor of Minnesota recognized this
solution as an Exemplary GIS Project in October 1998. See the
Awards section of this site for
more on the recognition.
In late 2004, a workgroup was established to investigate options for
supporting a regional street centerline dataset that not only provided the
functionality associated with the solution achieved through the use of The
Lawrence Group's data but which also satisfied: 1) the needs of the Emergency
Management (E911) community and 2) the desire to be incorporated into the
Census Bureau's TIGER produces, in particular census geography. The timing of
the creation of this workgroup was mainly in response to the U. S. Census
Bureau's proposal to establish procedures by April 2006 to incorporate
locally-produced data into the Bureau's TIGER products. Otherwise, the Bureau
planned to develop their own data they need to satisfy their improved accuracy
specifications. On April 20, 2005, the MetroGIS Policy Board endorsed an
ambitious
vision to achieve the desired outcomes. The actual vision
statement, information about its development, and next step efforts to achieve
it can be viewed at http://www.metrogis.org/info_needs/street_addresses/add_wkgp.shtml
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