DGeoShare…UNCHAINED

Steve Mark, Paul van Nieuwkuyk, Barry LoganICIS Good Guys

April 4, 2013

WHY?

Now what’s all this

fuss about?

VISION

ICIS is a leader in the sharing of geospatial information; driving collaboration, integration, adoption and use of spatial data for the

social and economic benefit of British Columbia

GOAL

Get data from contributing members without muss or fuss

CHALLENGES…

189 jurisdictions no data model different sources Different capabilities Membership Buy in

…CHALLENGES

“One to many” “Many to one” time to listen False starts Consistency Currency

WHAT?

We’re packin’ FME… the data will never know what hit ‘em!

DGeoShare, Defined

geoshare [jee-oh-shair](noun)

1. An FME-powered data brokerage infrastructure connecting ICIS data providers and consumers.

2. Regular and automated services for data extraction, publication, standardization, quality control, and reporting.

3. Feature rich off-the-shelf, self-documenting customization, highly extensible, plays very well with others.

(See also: ‘data-wizardry’, ‘parcel-alchemy’, ‘address-magic’)

(The ‘D’ is silent… it stands for ‘Data’)

GeoShare, Geographically

146 conduits Weekly

transmission > 1.3 million

parcels over 136/188 jurisdictions

> 1 million addresses over 138/188 jurisdictions

GeoShare, Schematically Extract from 188 providers Transform to standard Load cadastre and address DBs

Publishing Parcels and Addresses

Open Data Catalogs ModelBuilder > FTP for ESRI

back-ends FME > FTP for others

Once a week, please! FME Server checks for

updates Initiates update processes

for new data Emails administrators for

stale data

Integrating Parcels

Inherit standardized attribution from GeoBC

Otherwise, best-guess model mapping

One jurisdiction, one custodian

Individual records are never rejected

Integrating Addresses

Best-guess model mapping Parsing STREET NAME, NUMBER

TYPE minimally

Conversion to point locations Spatial jurisdiction check

GeoShare QC

FME mails you the results Link to failed features Link to process

documentation At-a-glance statistics = data improvements

over time!

HOW?

But it takes more than

just shiny tools to get

the job done!

It all starts and ends with Apple Pie!!

Creating a network/pipeline between Members

Accommodate the diversity of our members Larger urban municipalities/Smaller rural municipalities Associate Members Utilities/First Nations

Creating a social network between Members

Where do we start? Social Transformers

Build & strengthen relationships Technical – assessing each Members’ GIS capabilities/resources Discussing needs of member – Wear many hats…

Setting Priority Areas

Poll our members for desired areas Rank areas of high importance Low barrier of adoption Geography – coordinated site visits GeoBC/ICIS road trips

Detailed look at the Social Transformers used in GeoShare

Overview of GeoShare Delivery to ICIS

Blair – Islands Trust

Jesse - Sidney

Shelley -City of Comox

Ken - Focus

Dan - Telus

Steve - ICIS

Connecting Custodians & Consumers

Mark - BC Assessment

Ted - FortisBC

Dale - GeoBC

Andrea - Teck

Hilary - CRD

Steve - ICIS

Member feedback loop

ICIS GeoShare Comments

“I like the data update frequency and that the data are improving all the time.  You and Paul are super helpful too!” – Hilary, CRD

“Looks like a slick system.. No questions, just did a quick read through the help documentation and it’s pretty clear what’s up.” – Andrew, North Van DM

“That’s great – you guys are quick problem solvers! I’ll let the others know. I enjoyed the entire process, learning plenty along the way.” - Marie, KBRD

Steve - ICIS

REWARD

DGeoShare Bounty

QUESTIONS

Thank You!

Questions?

For more information: Steve Mark smark@icisociety.ca www.icisociety.ca

THE END…sort of…

thank you