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ABSTRACT: This talk will cover examples of current practices and trends in creating and maintaining digital geospatial metadata by State and Local governments. Brief case studies on a selected subset of representative State governments from different parts of the Nation will be presented, along with a selected subset of Local governments of various sizes and sophistication. Common characteristics across regions and levels of government will be discussed, including natural language descriptive metadata as well as formatted metadata (i.e. FGDC/ISO). Emerging trends and/or noteworthy developments will be covered, including: Convergence of geospatial with open data; curated data collections; metadata viewing; data storytelling; data profiling; and the use of GitHub as a metadata repository.
ABSTRACT: What are accuracy Standards? The U.S. Bureau of the Budget published the United Stated National Map Accuracy Standards in the 1940's. These standards were updated through-out the 1940's but remained unchanged until the 1990's when the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) published the ASPRS Accuracy Standards for Large-Scale Maps. The ASPRS Accuracy Standard was based more on real world positioning accuracy rather than an accuracy that is based on paper maps. Over the years new standards have been published by other agencies such as Federal Geodetic Data Committee, FEMA and the ASPRS to reflect the advances and introduction of new technologies. In 2014, the ASPRS introduced their new standard with the intent of condensing and override previous digital geospatial standards. These standards are often confusing and misunderstood. This presentation will attempt to explain the differences between the standards and how the standards relate to each other. We will discuss how the accuracy standards relate to the current data sets being utilized in the geospatial community such as orthophotography, planimetric mapping, Digital Terrain Models (DTM), contours, LiDAR and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, A.K.A. drones).
ABSTRACT: The NYSDOT will be adopting a new Item number for all construction contracts which will use a digital inventory with a standardized data schema to collect and manage the secondary assets on the NYSDOT maintained roads. The Engineers in Charge and the contractors will use AGOL to share information on the construction status and facilitate tracking completion. The use of the inventory throughout the asset lifecycle, Capital planning, Design and Maintenance Operations will be covered.