# Presentation: 262539

## RAMONA Overview

**RAMONA Overview**

## Project Goals

- Develop a functional and easy-to-use tool that will encourage state and local governments to inventory their data and keep their inventories up-to-date (at least 75% don’t create metadata now)
- Provide a tool that statewide coordination councils will get behind to prevent a proliferation of systems that can’t communicate with each other

## Maryland and Pennsylvania

**Acrobat File**
**E-mailed out**
**Completed on paper**
**FAX’ed back to DNR**
**Data entered and reconciled by one person**

**Maryland and Pennsylvania**

## Metadata Creation

**Original Access Database**

**Query Database**

**Populate WORD Document Using MACRO**

**Create Text File**

**Run Through “MP”**

## Indiana

## North Carolina

**North Carolina**

## Management Information

## User Access

## Required Features

- Internet tool to inventory data (only issue is how thoroughly we document)
- Provide a search capability to discover data
- Develop stock/custom report formats
- Create status maps
- Automatically generate metadata from inventory database and post to GOS
- Automatically update the metadata forms when changes are made to inventory

## Required Features

- Integrate with OGC environment for automatic data discovery and access
- Maintain a professional directory (Rolodex)
- Track applications development
- Track potential/future data collaboration projects
- Provide adequate security with open architecture design

## User Profile and Data Documentation

- User Profile (15 to 30 minutes)
- Organization and contact information
- GIS and systems information
- Data distribution policies
- Internet mapping services
- Data Profile (2 to 5 minutes per layer)
- Consistent questions on all layers
- Additional questions on select layers

## Layers Assigned to ISO Headings

| Locations & Geodetic Networks | Geographic Coordinates Data Base (GCDB) |
| --- | --- |
|   | Horizontal Control Monuments |
|   | Locations Name File (GNIS) |
|   | Vertical Control Monuments |
| Imagery, Base Maps & Land Cover | Digital Raster Graphics |
|   | Impervious Surfaces |
|   | Land Cover |
|   | Orthoimagery |
|   | Rectified Imagery |
| Elevation & Derived Products | Bathymetric Contours |
|   | Digital Elevation Model |
|   | Digital Terrain Models |
|   | Spot Elevations |
|   | Topographic Contours |
|   | Triangulated Irregular Network |

**ISO Heading****	****	****Layer Name**

## Consistent Required Information for Every Data Layer

| Scale Choices |
| --- |
| 1:1200 |
| 1:2400 |
| 1:4800 |
| 1:7200 |
| 1:12000 |
| 1:14400 |
| 1:19200 |
| 1:24000 |
| 1:30000 |
| >1:30000 |

| For This Layer What is the Completion Status? | Complete Coverage |   |
| --- | --- | --- |
|   | Partial Coverage |   |
|   | No Coverage |   |
| What Was the Source Material For this Layer? | Uncorrected Photography |   |
|   | Orthophotography |   |
|   | Hardcopy Maps |   |
|   | LIDAR |   |
|   | IFSAR |   |
|   | Satellite Imagery |   |
|   | Field Survey/GPS |   |
|   | Other (Please List) | Free Text |
| What is the Approximate Scale for this Layer? | See Table at Right |   |
| What is the Date of the Source Material for this Layer? | Free Text 4-digit year |   |
| What is the Date of Production of this Layer? | Free Text 4-digit year |   |

## Required Information Continued

| Scale Choices |
| --- |
| 1:1200 |
| 1:2400 |
| 1:4800 |
| 1:7200 |
| 1:12000 |
| 1:14400 |
| 1:19200 |
| 1:24000 |
| 1:30000 |
| >1:30000 |

| What is Your Update Frequency? | Continually |   |
| --- | --- | --- |
|   | Daily |   |
|   | Weekly |   |
|   | Monthly |   |
|   | Quarterly |   |
|   | Semi-Annually |   |
|   | Annually |   |
|   | As Required |   |
|   | Irregularly |   |
|   | None Planned |   |
|   | Other (Please List) | Free Text |
| What Type of Metadata Do You Produce for this Layer? | FGDC Compliant |   |
|   | Locally Defined |   |
|   | Data Dictionary |   |
|   | Other (Please List) | Free Text |
|   | None |   |
| What is the Publication Scale for this Data Layer? | See Table at Right |   |
| How is This Data Layer Attributed? | GIS Attributes |   |
|   | Text Annotations |   |
|   | Graphic Text Labels |   |
|   | Other (Please List) | Free Text |
|   | No Attributes |   |

## Unique Information for Select Data Types

| If Your Jurisdiction Creates DEM or Topographic Data, Please Answer the Following Questions. | What Post Spacing Was Used in Your DEM's? | See Table at Right |
| --- | --- | --- |
|   | What Contour Interval Does Your Data Support? | See Table at Right |
|   | Do You Have Breaklines? | Yes |
|   |   | No |
|   | Do You Have Control Monuments? | Yes |
|   |   | No |
|   | If Yes, Were They Established With GPS? | Yes |
|   |   | No |
|   | What is the Date Range That Your Monuments Were Set? | Free Text (years to years prompt) |

| <1 meter |
| --- |
| ~1 meter |
| ~2 meter |
| ~3 meter |
| ~4 meter |
| ~5 meter |
| ~6 meter |
| ~7 meter |
| ~8 meter |
| ~9 meter |
| ~10 meter |
| ~15 meter |
| ~20 meter |
| >20 meter |

| 1' |
| --- |
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| >10' |

## Expected Headaches

**Unique Identifier Numbers** to exchange data with Census (TED), FEMA (MIPS), NDOP, etc.
- Providing a **comprehensive list of layers** so that they are always available in “drop down” form for consistency (Currently ~259 data layers)
**Must “reconcile” Clearinghouse records with RAMONA records** to produce meaningful status maps and management reports (1 record for 1 data set)
**Training curve** to bring community partners (likes states or counties) on-board
- Quickly **managing change** when it’s required