National Spatial Data Infrastructure

 1997 Framework Demonstration Project Program (FDPP)

The Framework Demonstration Projects Program

(FDPP) was established by the Federal Geographic

Data Committee (FGDC) to support cooperative

projects that test the means by which the geospatial

data community can work together to build and

maintain the data framework for the National

Spatial Data Infrastructure. The framework

consists of commonly needed themes of data

(including the themes geodetic control, digital

orthoimagery, elevation and bathymetry,

transportation, hydrography, governmental units,

and cadastral) for national, statewide, regional,

and local analyses. Funding is provided for

implementations of multi-organization, multi-sector

partnerships to coordinate data collection,

maintenance, use and access within region areas.

Program participants will identify a basic

information content for the framework data and

will develop technical, operational, and business

contexts by which a distributed, collaborative data

collection and maintenance effort will operate.

For more information about this program contact

the FGDC Secretariat, c/o U.S. Geological Survey,

590 National Center, Reston, VA 20192; telephone

703.648.5514; fax 703.648.5755; gdc@usgs.gov.

Information is also available via the World Wide

Web at <URL:http://www.fgdc.gov/>. 

The 1997 Program

In August 1997, the FGDC issued awards for the

second year of the FDPP program. Eight awards

were made, totaling approximately $470,000. The

goals, participants, and contact information of each

program are summarized below.

Washington Cadastral

Framework

Demonstration Project

The Washington Department of Natural

Resources, on behalf of the Washington

Geographic Information Council, the

Interoganizational Resource Information

Coordinating Council, and the Public Land

Survey Office will provide leadership to

develop a partnership approach to create,

manage, maintain, and distribute cadastral

data. Partnerships will be developed with

many organizations to include state and

federal agencies, local government, tribes,

private sector land owners, and the GIS vendor

community. Locally derived cadastral data will

be integrated into a statewide framework. A

decision process will be developed to

determine what represents the best available

data. A data model which supports needs

beyond a minimum National Spatial Data

Infrastructure framework will be implemented.

Vendor development and support for the least two GIS software packages based on

model will be sought. The business representative uses of framework data

requirements of all partner organizations will including cadastral and digital orthoimagery.

be considered in the final design. Long-term Testing will occur in two phases: (1) data

partnership arrangements will be created. translation between existing GIS software

Statewide cadastral data and metadata will be tools using common data formats; and (2)

available on the Internet and will be compliant new OGIS-based software tools will be used

with Federal Geographic Data Committee to perform the same queries across systems.

standards. This proposal is part of a well- The results of each phase will be documented.

funded large Cadastral Framework Project to

create a new software application that will

allow feature- level updating and integration

of framework data into the GIS applications

environment of the Washington Department of

Natural Resources and other organizations

across the state. Under the Cadastral

Framework Project, all organizations that

collect and manage cadastral data will be able

to post updates to the state framework.

Collaborating Organizations: WA State,

Dept of Natural Resources; WA Geographic

Information Council; WA Framework Work

Group; WA Standards Work Group; WA

Local Government Work Group; Public Land

Survey Office; Interorganizational Resource

Information Coordinating Council

Principal Contact: Larry Sugarbaker, GIS

Manager, Washington State, Department of

Natural Resources, 1111 Washington Street,

SE, P.O. Box 47020, Olympia, WA 98504-

7020; telephone 360-902-1546; fax 360-902-

1790; larry.sugarbaker@wadnr.gov

GIS Interoperability for

Handling Framework Data

The North Carolina Center for Geographic

Information and Analysis (CGIA), in

cooperation with Johnston County, North

Carolina, proposes to lead a project that will

test GIS interoperability for handling

framework data over a high-speed

telecommunications network. The goal of the

project is to generate empirical information

about framework data handling among users

of disparate GIS software packages including

CGIA, Johnston County, and one adjacent

local government. It will provide an early

assessment of the technological foundation

necessary for enabling data producers in

federal, state, and local government so share

data and facilitate the NSDI framework vision.

Recent developments by the OpenGIS

Consortium with implementation of the

OpenGIS Specification (OGIS) offer much

promise in developing and using Framework

data. The project team will execute tests of at

Collaborating Organizations: NC Office of

State Planning, Center for Geographic

Information and Analysis; NC Geographic

Coordinating Council; Johnston County GIS;

NC Information Highway Policy Committee.

Principal Contact: Tim Johnson, Services

Program Manager, Center for Geographic

Information and Analysis, NC Office of State

Planning, 115 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh,

NC 27603-1721; telephone 919-733-2090;

fax 919-715-0725; tim@cgia.state.nc.us

National and Regional-Level

Area Integrator Concepts

Using Multi-Scale, Featurebased Digital Transportation

Data in West Virginia

This project is a cooperative effort between

the West Virginia State GIS Technical

Center, Department of Geology and

Geography at West Virginia University,

Office of the West Virginia State GIS

Coordinator, West Virginia Department of

Transportation, Division of Research and

Planning, US Geological Survey, National

Mapping Division, and Laser-Scan. The

project seeks to develop technical processes

that will integrate the mapping of

transportation data from various regional and

local data producers in an environment, a

structure that will support the framework

concepts for multi-resolution data, a feature

based-unique identifier tracking, transaction

update from contributions, and Internet-based

data dissemination of the best available data.

The project also addresses the institutional

arrangements necessary to coordinate the

national/regional area integration and

distributed feature maintenance issues. The

project will result in coordination of

organizations with clear mandates and

resources to cooperate for the creation of the

“best” available transportation data in West

Virginia. This framework demonstration

project coordinates the framework research

and development of several federal, state,

local, and private sector stakeholders for

transportation data for the state of West

Virginia.
Collaborating Organizations: WV State GIS

Technical Center; U.S. Geological Survey

(USGS), National Mapping Division; USGS,

EROS Data Center, USGS, Mid-Continent

Mapping Center; USGS, Rocky Mountain

Mapping Center; Laser-Scan, Inc.; WV Office

of GIS Coordinator; WV Dept of Highways, Collaborating Organizations: Arizona State

Planning and Research Division Land Dept, State Cartographer’s Office;

Principal Contact: Dr. Trevor Harris, Dept of

Geology and Geography, WV State GIS

Technical Center, WV University, 425 White

Hall, POB 6300, Morgantown, WV 26506;

telephone 304-293-5603 x4304; fax 304-293-

6522; tmh@wvugeo.wvnet.edu 

Upgrading TIGER Files Through

Conflation With Local Street Files

This project will focus on upgrading the

spatial accuracy of the Census TIGER file so

that it is registered with other local data sets

and can be used as the primary local street file.

The TIGER file will be upgraded by conflating

it with spatially accurate local street files that

have been registered to digital orthophotos and

to local cadastral data. The updates will be

tracked using unique record ID’s in order to

facilitate updating the master TIGER data The goals of this cadastral project are to

base. ArcView tools will be developed in the establish a process and network of participants

Avenue scripting language to assist local to collect, document, certify and distribute

agencies in maintaining both the geographic framework data for large governmentand the tabular data in the upgraded TIGER managed land holdings. Project tasks include

file. establishing a multi-sector Hawaii Framework Existing 1:100,000-scale hydrography data

Collaborating Organizations: Association of

Monterey Bay Area Governments and its

members; CA State University at Monterey

Bay; the Monterey County Water Resources

Agency; the County of Santa Cruz; the City of

Pacific Grove; the Central Coast Joint Data

Committee and its members; Caltrans District

5 offices; Census Bureau Van Nuys office.

Principal Contact: Jim Werle, GIS Analyst,

Association of Monterey Bay Area

Governments, P.O. Box 809, Marina, CA

93933; telephone 408-883-3750; fax 408-883-

3755; ambag@mbay.net

Arizona Cadastral Integration

Project

The objective of this project is to create a

framework and a system for the maintenance

of a seamless Public Land Survey System

(PLSS) and cadastral database for the state of

Arizona. The project will determine how to

effectively integrate cadastral data and its

derivatives from various identifiable sources.

The proposed project demonstrates how to

inventory, classify, integrate, and disseminate

cadastral themes for PLSS and ownership

boundaries. The demonstration meets the

critical need for 1:24,000 scale, or better,

framework-compliant cadastral data of many

users in Arizona. The metadata supporting the Project Proposal for 1997. The purpose of the

cadastral themes will accommodate the proposal is to improve the means to share

consistent descriptive elements necessary for land ownership information, increase the

continued integration and use by the various availability and use of these data, and to

data contributors. provide a strategy for developing a consistent

Arizona State Land Department, Arizona

Land Resources Information System; Arizona

Geographic Information Council; Arizona

State Office, GCDB Project; USDA-Forest

Service, Southwestern Region; City of Tempe,

Public Works Dept; Arizona State University,

Information Technology, Center for Collaborating Organizations: Alaska

Environmental Studies; Salt River Project; Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Mapping Automation Inc.; City of Scottsdale, Support Services, Land Records Information

Development Services; Pima County, Tech Section; Bureau of Land Management;

Services; Southern AZ GIS Consortia. National Park Service; Bureau of Indian

Principal Contact: Gene Trobia, Arizona

State Land Department, State Cartographer’s

Office, 1616 West Adams Street, Phoenix, AZ Principal Contact: Rich McMahon, Alaska

85007; telephone 602-542-4060; fax 602-542- Department of Natural Resources, Division of

2600; gtrobia@lnd.state.az.us Support Services, Land Records Information

Hawaii Framework

Demonstration Project

Working Group, collecting and integrating for the Northwest possesses enhanced

existing local data, establishing verification attribute information on flow direction,

and certification processes, conducting public network capabilities and includes stream

outreach, developing data distribution names and reach numbers. This data is the

mechanisms and framework updating source for the National Hydrography Dataset

protocols. The Island of Molokai will be the and is linked to many local applications

geographic focus of this project and a concerned with sensitive species, water

prototype for future framework activities on quality, protective river status, and disaster

other islands. preparedness. The purpose of this project is to

Collaborating Organizations: Department of

Business, Economic Development and

Tourism, Office of Planning; Department of

Planning, County of Maui; Department of

Land Utilizations, City and County of

Honolulu; University of HI, Geography Dept;

US FWS; National Park Service; GeoInsight

International; Geographic Decision Systems

International; The Nature Conservancy of HI

Principal Contact: Craig Tasaka,

Department of Business, Economic

Development and Tourism, Office of

Planning, 235 South Beretania Street,

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813; 808-587-2894; fax

808-587-2899; ctasaka@dbedt.hawaii.gov

Alaska Land Ownership Mapping

Project, Linking State and Federal

Program Activities to Build the

NSDI

Alaska’s public agencies have collaborated to

create an NSDI Framework Demonstration

approach for mapping large block parcel

information using the recently published

cadastral standard as a guidepost. This

process will strengthen the working

relationships among agencies managing land

records, and will provide a foundation for

future efforts to integrate native corporation

land holdings and local borough land records.

Affairs; US Forest Service; Fish and Wildlife

Service; AK Department of Fish and Game.

Section, 3601 C Street, Suite 916,

Anchorage, AK 99503; telephone 907-269-

8836; fax 907-563-1497;

richard_mcmahon@dnr.state.ak.us

Integrating Idaho Hydrography

Data

incorporate the attributes of this enhanced

data through a conflation process linked to

the river reach codes, and add missing canal

features into higher resolution 1:24,000-scale

hydrography data. Public access for this

higher resolution data will be provided via

the Internet and the State of Idaho’s FTP site.

By increasing the completeness of the

1:24,000-scale hydrography data, other

organizations will be able to use this data as

the basis on which to build unique

application-specific data sets, This project

will focus on the lower Boise River

hydrologic area as a preliminary step in

addressing hydrography for the entire state of

Idaho.

Collaborating Organizations: Idaho

Department of Water Resources; Idaho

Department of Fish and Game

Principal Contact: Anthony Morse,

Manager, Idaho Geographic Information

Center, Idaho Dept of Water Resources, 1301

N. Orchard Street, Boise, ID 83706;
telephone 208-327-7997; fax 208-327-7866;

tmorse@ idwr.state.id.us