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Delaware GIS Conference 2006

Patterns of ChangeThe Pennsylvania Story

Jim Knudson (jknudson@state.pa.us) Deputy CIO, Environmental Community of Practice

Stacey White (stwhite@state.pa.us)Director, Geospatial Technologies Office

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PA Patterns of Change• Change occurs in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Geospatial Community on a DAILY basis (mostly

good), making us all a little CRAZY!• At the state level, the following are occuring:

– Organizational Changes– Geospatial Responsibilities Grow– Governance Changes– Geospatial Shared Services Model– Geospatial Standards– Public Safety/Homeland Security Developments– Enterprise Geospatial Data Projects

• The Geospatial Evolution…

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Organizational Changes• GTO survived a third OIT reorganization and a

third office move in April (3 moves in 30 months)• Did not get to hire any new staff (previously staffed

at 2, now 1.5, will hire 3 this next year)• Jim was promoted to Deputy CIO, Environmental

Community of Practice (EnviroCoP)• BGT was reorganized to become the Geospatial

Technologies Office, reports to EnviroCoP• Stacey White was promoted to GTO Director• Will be hiring a GT Project Manager, Senior

Application Developer, and Database/Systems Administrator in next 6 months

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Organizational Changes• GTO Operational Budget dropped by more than 1/3

for next year, requiring program cuts• Line item for PAMAP costs in Budget for first time

($4M)• Recognition by Secretary of Administration and

Governor’s Office on importance of Geospatial Technologies (Governor’s office uses our legislative geocoding application DAILY!)

• No new HLS grants next year for GTO, but have plenty to complete this year

• Potential for new funding and staffing for FY 2007?

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Geospatial Responsibilities• Coordination

– 30 Agencies in state government– County GIS Professionals formed– Coordination with local government associations– More coordination with surrounding states

• Planning– Strategic and Tactical Plans – 3 year Strategic Plan is on

GTO website– Geospatial Job Classifications

• Enterprise Geospatial Data Needs– Priorities– Strategy– Budget

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Geospatial Responsibilities• Operations

– Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture• Enterprise Geospatial Database• Geospatial Application Hosting Servers

– Geospatial Applications• HLS Geospatial Portals (GTO)• Agency Applications• OGC Mapping Services• Geospatial Web Services

• Policy/Standards

• Budget and Administrative Tasks

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Geospatial Governance Changes• PA Geographic Information Council/Geospatial

Technologies Council voted to disband (user group)

• Geospatial Communities of Practice (GeoCoPa) continues in its place– Divided into four communities:

• Public Safety• Health and Human Services• Environmental• General Government Operations

– Will be project driven – standards, best practices, research and development, applications

– Opportunities for external entities to collaborate with state agencies

– Quarterly meetings, external participation invited

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Governance Changes• Statewide Geospatial Council …coming…

– Reviewed several drafts of legislative language– Administration has concerns over policy vs. advisory,

funding, resources, prefers to “Do It Right” instead of “Do It Fast”, with consensus based approach

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Definition of Shared Services• A standards and policy-based strategy for

implementing innovative business solutions in a way that reduces overall cost, duplication, and redundant solutions by identifying and meeting priority business needs and maintaining service level agreements.

Knudson, 2006

• Why reinvent the wheel…• Didn’t we just do that…• Most servers only use 8% of their cpu capacity…• If you build it, they will come…

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Geospatial Shared Services ModelThe following Commonwealth Geospatial Shared

Services are available through the Geospatial Technologies Office (GTO):

– State Geospatial Clearinghouse (PASDA) - Public– Enterprise Data Licenses**– Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture

• Information Sharing**• Application Hosting**• Geospatial Portals**• Geospatial Web Services**

– Project Portfolio** - indicates governmental

and first responder access, not public access

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PA Spatial Data Access (PASDA)• Services continue to expand and improve every

year!• Act as an extension to GTO staff, part of our team• Loading “gobs” of imagery for public access

– PAMAP – 2003, 2004, 2005– NAIP Color Infrared Statewide TIFFs (not MrSID)– Ivan Flooding Imagery TIFFs– Delaware Flooding Aerial Images

• Continue to make improvements in the user interface

• Metadata support for everyone

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Enterprise Data Licenses• TeleAtlas Enterprise License

– GIS Data Layers for Mapping and Analysis– Address Geocoding– Routing/Driving Directions– Census Data

• Places2Protect – finalizing data delivery– Places where people congregate– Elderly and youth populations– Service centers

• Real-Time Weather Data – almost there• Major utilities – oil/gas transmission, electrical

transmission, chemical – working on licensing

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Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA)

• Fault tolerant, high availability, 24x7 operational capabilities built for mission critical public safety applications that supports:– Enterprise Geospatial Database (Oracle/ArcSDE)– Shared Services GT Application hosting environment –

for GTO and other agencies– OGC Mapping Services for information sharing– XML Web Services Reusable Components– Geospatial Portal Deployments

• Linchpin in GTO’s strategy for geospatial shared services – paid for with Homeland Security Grants

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Geospatial Application Hosting Services

• GESA provides:– Direct access to enterprise geospatial database– Fault-tolerant, network load balanced application servers– Leverage GTO ESRI and other software licenses

(ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, Citrix server for a license pool containing ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView, and most extensions for desktop environment)

– Managed Services environment (support)

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Geospatial Application Hosting• GTO is hosting GTO applications and other agency

applications in the GESA:– Community and Economic Development– Governor’s Office– Health– Labor and Industry– PEMA

• Coming Attractions:– Agriculture?– Insurance?– OHS?– PSP?

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Geospatial Portal Development• Leverages the IRRIS Geospatial Framework for

Pennsylvania (developed by GeoDecisions)– $15M Investment in IRRIS by the Military Surface

Deployment and Distribution Command Traffic Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA)

– Enables rapid deployment of portal applications– Being adopted by DHS and being used by other states

• First PA geospatial portal was the Geospatial Analysis of Threats and Incident Reports (GATIR)

• GATIR Enhancements Project will add more functionality, new GATIR Portals for Transportation and Health (SNS/Pandemic)

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Geospatial Web Services• GTO currently offers XML web service applications

for:– Address Verification/Validation– Address Geocoding– Data Loading into ArcSDE (point features, using lat/long)– Boundary Geocoding– Mapping– Routing/Driving Directions

• Planning new web services for:– Spatial Search/Query– Gazetteer– Plume Modeling

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Geospatial Web Services• Documented on GTO website under Enterprise GIS

Web Services Link – Developer Integration Guides (DIGs):• DIGs include how

to register for access to services, error messages, input and output XML interfaces, and sample source code on how to call services in VB.NET / ASP.NET

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Geospatial Standards• Geospatial Software Standard – reduce proliferation

of products and controlled evaluation and use of new products

• Geospatial Interoperability Standard – governs use of licensed geospatial products and requirements for sharing of geospatial products

• County Code Standard – more than 10 in use in PA, will adopt FIPS, delegated to Enterprise Architecture Information Domain Team (EAIDT)

• Addressing Standard – affiliated with “Citizen Data Model” initiative (EAIDT)

• PA Geospatial Data Sharing Standard – developing a data model for data sharing of framework layers

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Public Safety/Homeland Security Strategies and Projects

• GTO has received $4.0M HLS grant funding over past 3 years (plus $300K CDC/HRSA funds, FHWA earmarks from 2004-2006)

• GT Advisory Committee (policy) includes primary public safety agencies

• GTO has published a homeland security strategy as part of state homeland security assessment and strategy document

• GTO has gained credibility with public safety community on data sharing and application delivery through the enterprise geospatial database and geospatial portal applications

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Homeland Security Projects• SHSP 2004 – Severe

Weather Alerting and Plume Modeling ($1.5M)

• ITEP 2004 ($600K)– Competitive, Enterprise

Geospatial Technologies Data Architecture (EGTDA), Geospatial Analysis of Threats and Incident Reports (GATIR) portal, mapping services, web services

• SHSP 2005 ($1.87M)– PAMAP Funding– Federated GIS Project– PGDSS Local Roads

Pilot Project– GATIR Enhancements– Health Geospatial Portal

(SNS/Pandemic/Hospital Status)

– Utilities/Critical Infrastructure

– Places2Protect Enterprise License

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Information Sharing Strategy

Agencies andExternal Business

Partners

Enterprise GT Database

DataProviders

Data, metadata

Data, metadata

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PASDA Data, metadata, mapping services

Data, metadata, mapping services

ESRI and OGC Mapping Services

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Information Sharing• Enterprise Geospatial Database consolidates

Commonwealth geospatial data holdings• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Mapping

Services (interoperable)– Currently 12 different function-based services

(Administrative Boundaries; Public and Commercial Facilities; Hydrography; Energy, Municipal and Utility Infrastructure; Water Infrastructure; Law Enforcement and Emergency Response; Natural Areas and Parks; Airports, Airfields and Heliports; Bridges and Tunnels; Ports and Waterways; Roads)

– ESRI and OGC (interoperable) mapping services– Web Mapping Services (WMS) and Web Feature

Services (WFS)– Imagery web services coming in the near future

Geospatial Data Integration Strategy

WebSAAL Authorized Users

MappingWS

RoutingWS

AddressGeocoding

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AddressVerification

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SpatialSearch

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PlumeModeling

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Public SafetyPortal

Justice Network(JNET)

WeatherApps

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HealthData

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Mapping Services, Web Service Applications

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Visualization, Mapping,Reporting, Routing

RCTTFExternal

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PEIRSPA Emergency

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The Geospatial Evolution…• Dangermond’s Law: GIS/GT can never be mastered

because it is always changing.• Knudson’s Corollaries:

– Listen and learn, apply best practices– Continue to evaluate and prioritize your needs daily– Develop a long term vision, plan, and strategy– Work within the boundaries of your plan– Remain agile, roll with the changes– Evolve in the direction you choose, not chosen for you– Measure your results, never settle for status quo– Progress often cannot be measured daily, but small steps

must be made daily– Learn from your mistakes, document lessons learned

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PA GTO Website

http://www.gis.state.pa.us