Hot News Items - November 2006
GENERAL NEWS

Geospatial Data Draft Plan Report Published
In October 2006, Michael Baker, Inc. published the California Geospatial Data Draft Plan report in partnership with the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA), the California GIS Council, USGS, and the California Resources Agency. The report was the key deliverable for an institution building CAP Grant Program, culminating a six-month process of interactive meetings in regional settings and an interactive web survey. The report identifies core and California-centric geospatial framework data and presents an implementation strategy. The report contains both short-term and long-term implementation actions that the California GIS Council, CGIA, and Regional Groups can take to move this critical initiative forward.

• The four-page executive summary and 80-page report can downloaded here: http://www.cgia.org/CA_GeoFrame_DDP_FINAL_for_Publication.pdf.
• You can provide your feedback on the report’s contents to George White ( ), CGIA Vice Chair, and also let George know if you will be participating in any of the recommended implementation actions.

Have you heard of the United States National Grid? Did you know this is an important FGDC nationally-defined coordinate system standard for all spatial referencing, mapping, and reporting?

For more details, you can download the standard at:
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/usng/fgdc_std_011_2001_usng.pdf.

Are you aware that the Department of Homeland Security is promoting this standard for emergency responders? Read more if you are interested. Several education sessions were presented at the national states Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) Annual Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, October 1 to 5.

Metadata Updates are Important to Us
Mary Tsui has been conducting metadata workshops for CGIA under CAP grant funding. A summary of each workshop and lessons learned will be published within the next three months. Contact Mary Tsui at for more information.

As you change your data service offerings, please don't forget to update the appropriate metadata records for your organization in the California Environmental Information Catalog (http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/). If you haven't already created records for your data and information resources in CEIC, please do so. CEIC has been endorsed by the California GIS Council and is California's principal National Spatial Data Infrastructure node. CEIC records are harvested by Geospatial One-Stop (http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos). You can enter data directly into CEIC using its online data entry forms or "publish" your metadata for harvesting by CEIC.

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