National Spatial Data Infrastructure

 1996 Framework Demonstration Project Program (FDPP)

The Framework Demonstration Projects parcels. The project will be based on an 

Program (FDPP) was established by the operational model developed by the CGIA. 

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 This multi-participant, multi-jurisdictional

(including the themes geodetic control, digital project provides an empirical assessment of

orthoimagery, elevation and bathymetry, critical aspects of the premise that local,

transportation, hydrography, governmental regional and state needs can be adequately

units, and cadastral) needed for national, aligned with the framework data concept.

statewide, regional, and local analyses. This project leverages ongoing local, regional

Funding is provided for implementations of and state cooperative arrangements for

multi-organization, multi-sector partnerships providing digital geospatial data, and will

to coordinate data collection, maintenance, refine the conceptual model of data

use and access in local and regional areas. production and integration roles for those

Program participants will identify a basic organizations. Procedures will be established

information content for the framework data to achieve consensus for geospatial data

and will develop technical, operational, and needs, and resolve data integration and

business contexts by which a distributed, generalization issues as data are assembled

collaborative data collection and maintenance for increasingly large areas. The local,

effort will operate. regional, and state acceptance and support of

For more information about this program identified that require resolution for local,

contact the FGDC Secretariat, c/o U.S. regional and state needs to align with the

Geological Survey, 590 National Center, framework. This project will conduct case

Reston, VA 20192; telephone 703.648.5514; studies that will adapt local, regional and

fax 703.648.5755; Internet gdc@usgs.gov. state data development efforts to framework

Information is also available via the World and develop and test data certification

Wide Web at <URL:http://www.fgdc.gov/Fram>. policies. Data certification policies, and

The 1996 Program

In August 1996, the FGDC issued awards for Collaborating Organizations: MN Office of

the first year of the program. Seven awards Strategic and Long Range Planning (lead),

were made, totaling approximately $800,000. Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities, and

The goals, participants, and contact the Governor’s Council on Geographic

information of each program are summarized Information.

below.

A Statewide Strategic and Long Range Planning, Land

Framework of Public Management Information Center, 658 Cedar

Lands Data Using St St. Paul, MN 55155; telephone

Locally Derived 612.296.1209; fax 612.296.1212; Internet

Cadastres dav id.arbeit @

This project will create a viable technical

process for the maintenance of the framework

cadastral theme in North Carolina by

improving statewide data sets of federally and

State-owned property. On behalf of the North

Carolina Geographic Information

Coordinating Council (GICC), the Center for

Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA)

will guide a consortium of local, State, and

Federal government agencies and professional

organizations in the integration of cadastral

data from county land records offices into

statewide data sets of publicly administered 

Collaborating Organizations: NC Center Within a Collaborative

for Geographic Information and Analysis Multi-Jurisdictional

(lead), NC Geographic Information Local, Regional, and

Coordinating Council (including the Federal State Setting

Interagency Committee, the Affiliated GIS

Users Committee, and the State Government

GIS Users Group), NC Association of County

Commissioners, Office of the Secretary of

State (Land Records Management Program),

and the NC State Property Office.

Principal Contact: Zsolt Nagy, 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; Internet

zsolt@cgia.state.nc.us

Creating a Federally

Compliant State and Local

Delivery System for High

Resolution Framework Data

Collaborators will strengthen abilities of

agencies for sharing and integrating highresolution framework data in New Mexico

and along the U.S.-Mexico border. The

participants will assess administrative

requirements for integrating data from

municipal authorities with those of county

and state organizations, establish agreements

that provide a backbone on which the

framework can be built, identify and evaluate

integration models used by local authorities,

and test data integration procedures. The

project will develop methods for establishing

partnerships for data distribution and

sharing, identify high resolution data that

comply with metadata and spatial data

transfer standards, test data integration

within and among themes of data, and

evaluate institutional capabilities for

maintaining and archiving framework data.

Framework data themes that will be

addressed are geodetic control, digital

orthoimagery, and cadastral. Utah Cadastral Integration

Collaborating Organizations: University of

NM - Earth Data Analysis Center (lead), City

of Santa Fe, Doña Ana County, and the NM

State Land Office.

Principal Contact: Amelia Budge, Earth

Data Analysis Center, Univ of NM, 2500

Yale SE, #100, Albuquerque, NM 87131-

6031; telephone 505.277.3622; fax 505.

277.3614; Internet abudge@spock.unm.edu

Assessing the

Framework Model

framework will be evaluated, and issues

metadata documentation and methodology

will be developed and tested for this

metropolitan and statewide effort.

Principal Contact: David Arbeit, Office of

mnplan.state.mn.us

Project

This project is a collaborative effort between

Federal, State, and local government agencies

to meet the critical need throughout the State

of Utah for cadastral data at a scale of

1:24,000 or larger. The project will integrate

existing cadastral data to produce a statewide

cadastral framework, establish a data
management infrastructure, and make needs and trends. Technical implementations utilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth

framework data available through an enhanced will address transportation linear referencing metropolitan area for the development and

NSDI Clearinghouse. The cadastral data for systems. sharing of data for many framework data

the project consist of the U.S. Public Land themes. The consortium will develop a

Survey System (PLSS), ownership (agency business plan for the framework activity. It

jurisdictions and parcels), and government also will link the consortium members

unit boundaries (where coincident with PLSS through the initiation of an online spatial

boundaries). The metadata supporting the data warehouse that will assimilate data

cadastral themes will accommodate the maintained by its members and provide

consistent descriptive elements necessary for efficient access to these data. These two

continued integration and use by various data activities will be well documented as a result

contributors. Technical investigations will of this project, will serve as a model for

address permanent feature identifiers and adoption by other metropolitan area

develop and test data integration processes. consortia. This project aims to reduce

Collaborating Organizations: Utah

Automated Geographic Reference Center

(lead), Bureau of Land Management

(Geographic Sciences Team and Utah State

Office), U.S. Forest Service (Region 4

Headquarters, Dixie National Forest, and

Geometronics Service Center), U.S. Geological

Survey, Utah state agencies (Forestry, Fire,

and State Lands, and the School and Collaborating Organizations: University of

Institutional Trust Lands Administration), TX - Bruton Center for Development Studies

participating Utah counties (Beaver, Box (lead); Tarrant Appraisal District; Dallas

Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Emery, Iron, County Public Works Department; the Cities

Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute, Rich, Salt Lake, of Arlington, Cedar Hill, Colleyville, Dallas,

Sanpete, Summit, Uintah, Utah, Washington, Flower Mound, Fort Worth, and North

Wayne, and Weber), Canyon Country Richland Hills; Lone Star Gas Company;

Partnership, Southwest Utah Planning Tarrant County 911 District; and Dallas Area

Authorities Council, Utah Council of Land Rapid Transit.

Surveyors, and the State GIS Advisory

Committee.

Principal Contact: Bob Nagel, UT certification, and protocols for sharing and Development Studies, PO Box 830688,

Automated Geographic Reference Center, community access will be formalized. Local Richardson, Texas 75083-0688; telephone

5130 State Office Building, Salt Lake City, and regional data sets for the Gwynns Falls 214.883.2088; fax 214.883.2735; Internet

UT 84114; telephone 801.538.3291; fax watershed and subwatersheds will be made waddell@utdallas.edu

801.538.3550; Internet available to public, private, and government

bnagel@ organizations at no cost through the Internet.

dpagr7.it.as.ex.state.ut.us

Vermont Spatial Data and Joint Center for Earth Systems

Partnership Project Technology (lead), MD Department of the

The Vermont Spatial Data Partnership Project

will enhance Vermont’s spatial data

development and distribution system to include

long-term cooperative agreements among

Federal, State, regional, and local government

agencies, and commercial spatial data

providers and users, to promote the

development and maintenance of statewide

transportation framework data. The project

will create a framework for long-term

cooperation in the development and use of

common data bases; establish institutional

processes for resolving issues related to data

needs, evaluating the needs for new data sets,

and maintaining and distributing framework

data; encourage the use of framework data;

and assure that the interests of the partners

will be served in the long term maintenance of

statewide transportation data. In particular,

the institutional issues related to data

standards, certification, and integration will be

addressed by the establishment of a

transportation theme expert group to identify

Collaborating Organizations: VT Center

for Geographic Information, Inc. (lead),

Vermont’s 12 Regional Planning

Commissions, VT Agency of Transportation,

VT Enhanced 911 Board, Bureau of the

Census, and the U.S. Geological Survey. 

Principal Contact: Bruce Westcott, VT

Center for Geographic Information, Inc.,

206 Morrill Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-

0106; telephone 802.656.4277; fax

802.656.0776; Internet

brucew@vcgi.uvm.edu

The Baltimore-Washington

Regional Digital Spatial

Data Framework Demonstration Project

for the Gwynns Falls Subwatershed

This project will explore the administrative

and technical issues of linking local and

regional data sets for the framework themes

of geodetic control, digital orthoimagery,

elevation, transportation, hydrography,

governmental units, and cadastral data. The

first phase of this project will bring together

many organizations to study the benefits of

data sharing for solving local and regional

land management problems. In the second

phase of the project, issues of standards for Principal Contact: Paul Waddell, University

data archiving and documentation, data of TX at Dallas, Bruton Center for

Collaborating Organizations: University of

MD, Baltimore County - Dept of Geography

Environment (Technical and Regulatory

Services Administration), U.S. Geological

Survey, Baltimore County Department of

Environmental Protection and Resource

Management, Urban Resources Initiative, and

the Chesapeake Bay Program.

Principal Contact: Dr. Timothy Foresman,

University of MD, Baltimore County,

Department of Geography and Joint Center

for Earth Systems Technology, 1000 Hilltop

Road, Baltimore, MD 21250; telephone

410.455.3149; fax

410.455.1056; Internet

foresman@umbc.edu

The North Texas GIS

Consortium Spatial Data

Warehouse

The Bruton Center for Development Studies

at Dallas has facilitated the formation of the

North Texas GIS Consortium consisting of a

group of over thirty local governments and

participant costs of GIS development through

cost savings on hardware, software, services,

training, and data, and to facilitate data

development, maintenance and sharing

between members through

telecommunications links, area data

standards, distributed data maintenance, and

a central library database.