State GIS Initiatives

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• State GIS Initiatives
• and Trends
• Washington State Information Services Board
• November 13, 2008
• Pat Cummens
• ESRI
• pcummens_at_esri.com

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Geographic Information System (GIS)

• A system for the Management, Analysis,
  Visualization and Dissemination of Geographic
  Information

for effective, timely, and efficient
collaboration, problem solving, and
decision-making.
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Enterprise Lab
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GIS is Used to Solve Business Problems
Delivering many capabilities
In many industries

• Federal government
• State local government
• Natural Resources
• Utilities
• Transportation Logistics
• Intelligence
• Defense
• Science Technology
• Public Safety
• Homeland Security
• Environmental
• Water/Wastewater
• Telecommunications
• Health Care
• Agriculture
• Energy
• Mining
• Insurance/banking

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Enterprise GIS Delivers Business Capabilities
Information Integration
Visualization
Analysis/Workflow
More than maps and imagery a foundation for
mission planning and execution
Common Operating Picture
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Enterprise GIS is Growing Rapidly Especially in
Government

• Trends in Global Revenue Growth, 1999 to 2005

There is clearly a trend to migrate disparate
line-of-business geospatial systems to an
enterprise GIS environment. This trend features
core GIS infrastructure maintained by a central
IS organization, with data management
responsibilities held by the lines of business
that are the primary users. GartnerUS
Public Sector GIS Survey
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NASCIO Top 10 Priority Technologies, Applications
and Tools

• 1. Virtualization (storage, computing, data
  center)
• 2. Document/Content/E-mail
• 3. Legacy application modernization and upgrade
  (ERP)
• 4. Networking, voice and data communications,
  unified communications
• 5. Web 2.0 (services, collaboration technologies,
  social computing)
• 6. Green IT technologies and solutions
• 7. Identity and access management
• 8. Geospatial analysis and Geographic Information
  Systems (GIS)
• 9. Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics
  applications
• 10. Mobile workforce enablement

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Geospatial resources are so important, and touch
so many areas of government that they must be
managed as an enterprise resource within the
greater scope of enterprise architecture
NASCIO GIS Issue Brief
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GIS Supports Multiple PlatformsIncreasingly in
mainstream applications
Desktop/Workgroup
Enterprise
Internet Web (2.0)
Mobile
Desktop
Server
A platform for delivering geospatial capabilities
across an organization or community of interest
. . . transforming business capabilities
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Enterprise Lab
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Engage, Empower, and Integrate Business Units
Using Web Services and Services-Oriented
Architecture (SOA)

• Organized Around Missions
• Applications / Data
• Locally Managed
• Shared Data
• Web Services
• Replicated (Data Warehouse)

Federated Architecture
Departmental Servers
Environmental
Transportation
Human Services
Base map
Supporting Individual Missions




Applications
Providing Generic Services
Services
Services

Replication
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Enterprise Server
. . . Support flexible business processes
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Maryland Governor is GIS Champion Driver one
map, accessible to all transparency and
accountability

• StateStat BayStat BRACstat
• MDiMap

Integrates the work of state, counties and cities
.provides tailored but consistent views of the
information
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North Carolina House Bill requested GIS
StudyDriver grow and better manage enterprise
use of GIS

• The study provides recommendations on
• governance
• organization and staffing
• cost effective State investment strategy for GIS
• leveraging local and federal support
• eliminating any duplication of capabilities.

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Tennessee Bold statewide coordinated basemap
effort Driver improve revenue collection

• Strategies
• Enterprise GIS technology provides data and
  services
• Leverage Partnerships
• State local (Funding in-kind data
  maintenance)
• Parcels transportation
• Private Partnership
• Mutual data needs
• Sustainable model

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Utah GIS is business driven, meets legislative
needsDriver states hot topics are addressed

• Existing GIO, working closely with State CIO
• GIS Strategic Plan and GIS Technology Strategy
  Plan
• IT project planning process
• proposal form asks about
• GIS role in project
• Location-Based Services - SOA
• Base Map Services
• Composite Address Locator
• Batch Address Locator
• Place/Extent Finder
• Buffer Service, find near
• Route from point to point
• Metadata Query Service

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Pennsylvania GIS as an Enterprise
ResourceDriver Government efficiency

• CIOs Office Enterprise IT responsibility
• Policy and technology (includes GIS)
• Enterprise Geospatial Database
• Common data model
• Federated GIS distributed county data sources,
  spatial ETL, on the fly edge-matching, regional
  data servers
• Geodatabase replication local data
• Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA)
• Leverages Commonwealths Mission Critical
  computing environment
• Geospatial Services / Application Hosting
  Environment
• Address verification and geocoding web services
• Geospatial applications and web services

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AWS Weather Display, Mapping Services
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Chlorine Leak, AWS real-time weather
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HPAC Plume with 3-mile Buffer Rings
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DC
Web Services Stateless Web Applications
DC GIS Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Improve the quality and lower the cost of
services through the efficient application of
geospatial technology.
XML - SOAP - Web Services
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DPW Bulk trash pick with GIS routing
Mayors Call Center geocodes service requests as
they come in.
Citywide Data Warehouse updates service request
feed.
Each crew receives checklist of stops
DPW uses hosted desktop GIS to route crews.
and a route map
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Kentucky Portal to make it easy to find and use
GIS dataDriver save time and money

• KY Portal
• Day-to-day resource for the public and
  private sector
• 150 spatial datasets
• Data provider to the USGS National Map
• Eliminates redundant efforts
• Extendable to improve business processes

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KWMIP Driver Too many TMDLs- need to improve
model efficiency and consistency
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Minnesota Governors Drive to Excellence
ProgramDriver streamline government OET
Priorities consolidation of IT services,
modernize business processes, IT standards

What? (Data)

• Stewards of their own data
• Focused Applications

Agency Functions
Shared Functions
Where? (Maps)

• Find this address
• Make a map of
• Whats in my District
• Whats near by
• Find best route

Utility Functions
How? (ESB SW)

• Portal One-Stop Directory
• Network Architecture /SW
• Common Operating picture
• Citizen Access
• Base GIS data

How does GIS fit in?
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Colorado IT consolidation Driver improve
government efficiency
Senate Bill 2008-155 Governor Bill Ritter Jr.
signed Senate Bill 08-155 on May 15, 2008 which
transferred the management and authority of
Information Technology services and personnel to
the Office of Information Technology which is a
centralized entity responsible and accountable to
the State of Colorado and its business operations.

• SB 08-155 transferred roles and responsibilities
  for GIS coordination to OIT

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Needs Identified in Two Independent Assessments
in Colorado

• Applied Geographics Emergency Management
  Assessment, 2007
• CH2MHill Assessment, 2007

• Consolidate software license purchasing and
  maintenance
• Improve governance by creating a GIS Council
• Create uniform policies for data development or
  sharing
• Control spatial information resources, including
  personnel, software, data and applications
• Statewide policy regarding GIS data organization
• Improve sharing of data between state departments
• Promote state data stewards
• Leverage GIS services which are currently
  replicated numerous times among State departments

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The Current Silo Structure of IT
With a decentralized environment, Departments are
not effectively leveraging enterprise
applications, services, and investments.
Consolidation of enterprise services and
resources helps the individual departments
realize benefits and improve efficiency.
Department of Transportation
Department of Education
Public Health and Environment
Department of Local Affairs
GIS
GIS
GIS
Department of Agriculture
Health Care Policy and Finance
Department of Military Affairs
Department of Public Safety
GIS
GIS
GIS
Department of Corrections
Department of Human Services
Department of Natural Resources
Department of Regulatory Agencies
GIS
Higher Education
Department of Revenue
Department of Labor, Employment
Department of Personnel Admin

Security
GIS
GIS
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I-35W Bridge Collapse

• Immediate Questions - What and Where?
• Show me pictures and a map
• Manage rescue and response
• Close appropriate roads
• Reroute traffic
• City of Minneapolis requested help from ESRI on
  day 1

GIS technology helped with all of these
challenges!
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Need 1 How do we organize all the information
coming in and communicate with the responders on
what to do?

• Delivered GIS based Common Operating Picture (
  COP) Viewer for internal use, shows secure
  perimeter, staging areas, barriers, deployed
  resources, etc.

Built and delivered August 2 day 2
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Need 2 A way for city, county and state
officials to update and share information about
road closures

• Delivered Simple to use web GIS tool to point to
  a map and enter or remove a barrier

Built and deployed August 2 Day 2
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Need 3 Routing tool for citizens to find a new
route (that knows about all of the closures)

• Delivered Web tool on City of Minneapolis
  homepage to enter location and destination and
  get a map and directions based on most current
  information

Built and deployed August 3 day 2
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Two weeks later6 Minnesota Counties Flooded

• Immediate Questions - What and Where?
• Need a common view of where damage is and where
  response efforts are underway
• Where are emergency shelters
• Multiple agencies closing roads
• Citizens / businesses need to route around
  detours
• Agricultural area - has food supply been
  contaminated?

Sound familiar? Different issue, geography and
players, same needs .
MN DOT was able to take these applications and
immediately use them to manage the flood
situations
GIS is the foundation of a common solution that
should be ready and waiting
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Trends in State GIS Strategy

• State CIOs Establishing Geographic Management
  Offices
• At least 20 states have organized a lead GIS
  coordinator or office under the CIO
• Enterprise GIS needs a Champion and advocate
• GIS must be managed as a Enterprise Resource
• GIS is critical to meet state business
• National Governors Associations (2006) Top
  actions a Governor should take to prepare for all
  hazards Use modeling and mapping tools for
  preparedness
• GIS Cuts across multiple agencies
• Leverages past investments, improves decision
  making and service to citizens
• Enterprise Statewide License Agreements NC, MT,
  DE, AL, Federal agencies
• GIS a core Shared Service
• According to Gartner (2002) There is clearly a
  trend to migrate to an enterprise GIS
  environment. This trend features core GIS
  infrastructure maintained by a central IS
  organization..
• GIS delivers on multi-jurisdictional business
  problems
• Western Governors' Association, Policy Resolution
  06-14 Geospatial Data Is Part of the Nations
  Critical Infrastructure
• Common data needs

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Implementing Enterprise GIS Requires More Than
Technology

• Vision and Leadership
• Management Support
• Understanding of Business Processes
• Governance And Finance Models
• Planning
• Technical Architecture
• Data Models
• Organization
• Implementation Work
• Good People
• . . . And a Spirit of collaboration

New Technology - GIS Servers, Web Services SOA
Provide New Opportunities For Rapid
Implementation
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Thanks to many states for their great work and
presentation materials!

• Dennis Goreham, UT
• Taking GIS to a New Level, Working with the State
  CIO
• Kenny Miller, MD
• Required Enterprise GIS to Achieve the
  Governor's Vision
• Stacy White Jim Knudson, PA
• Achievements in Enterprise GIS, Strategy for
  Building a State SDI
• Barney Krucoff, DC
• DC Capitalizes on Live GeoServices
• Cheryl Crawford, MS
• Mississippi's Geospatial Clearinghouse
• Stacey White Jim Knudson, PA
• Pennsylvania Geospatial Analysis of Threats and
  Incident Reports
• These presentations can be found at
  http//www.nsgic.org/events/2007_conference.cfm