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The meeting began at 8:30 AM in at the Land Management Information Center (LMIC) in the Centennial Building.
Members Present: Clark Evans, Minnetonka Schools; Dick Carlstrom, TIES; Chris Cialek, LMIC; Scott Hovet,
Washington County; Paul Leegard, Anoka County; Ernie Petersen, St. Louis Park; James Piegat, Hennepin Conservation
District; Scott Renne, City of Minneapolis; David Windle, City of Roseville; Jay Wittstock, Dakota County.
Support Staff: Mark Kotz, Metropolitan Council
1. Introductions and Modifications to Agenda and Meeting Notes
Team members made introductions. There were no modifications to the agenda or the meeting notes from the
previous meeting.
2. Current Status of GIS Standards
Chris Cialek gave a presentation outlining the current status of organizations (state & federal) that
sanction standards and the types of GIS standards that have been addressed by these organizations. Standards can be
thought of in a hierarchical sense, ranging from laws to policies to standards to guidelines. Organizations involved
with GIS standards include NIST (which developed FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards)), U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) which includes the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC); and the state Information Policy Office
(IPO). 140 FIPS standards have been recognized, 9 of which are GIS related. The FGDC has been involved with Spatial
Data Transfer Standards (SDTS) and metadata standards. IPO has sanctioned state codes and is currently looking at
county codes and place codes for the state.
3. A Template Process for Defining Standards for Key Datasets
Kotz and Cialek explained that the MetroGIS Data Content Team is currently defining some of the "key" data
sets for MetroGIS participants. This will include a formal data modeling process. Once key datasets have been defined,
it will be the job of the Standards Team to determine what standards are needed for these key datasets. Kotz and
Windle presented a draft outline of steps to be taken to define standards for key datasets. The committee made some
modifications to the outline (updated draft attached).
4. Address Standards
Paul Leegard, David Windle and Jay Wittstock explained the address coding conventions used by Anoka County,
Roseville, and Dakota County respectively. Each uses a procedure based largely on the U.S. Postal Service standard. All
three agreed that problems can arise in GIS due to the fact that a parcel and an address are two different things. In
some cases there can be a one-to-many or a many-to-one relationship between addresses and parcels. Leegard noted that
it is very useful to have information to tell whether a parcel is a lot with a house, a vacant lot, a road, etc.
Leegard also noted that discrepancies exist between to post office street names and the official city street names.
Windle said it would be useful to have information to tell whether an address was pending, active or historical.
Wittstock mentioned that the USPS standard often needs to be modified to handle software idiosyncrasies and particular
applications.
Leegard, Windle, Wittstock and Kotz will form a working group to 1. create a list of issues surrounding
address standards, and 2. define the scope of the MetroGIS Standards Team's involvement with this subject.
5. Next Team Meeting The next team meeting will be on Wednesday, September 11th; 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM at LMIC.
6. The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 AM.
Action Items: Kotz will schedule a meeting of the address standards working group.
Prepared by Mark Kotz, GIS Specialist
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