Standards Committee

The Standards Committee helps coordinate strategies for integrating geospatial data and business processes across all levels of government. It advises the state geospatial community about relevant standards issues and facilitates the creation and adoption of such standards within Minnesota. It serves as a liaison to federal government standards initiatives. It also advises the state geospatial community on opportunities for shared geospatial architecture within Minnesota, jointly participating with MetroGIS in the Geospatial Commons Workgroup.
 

Geospatial Standards

• About Standards
• Adopted and Developing Standards
  • Draft stormwater system data exchange standard
  • Draft national address standard
     

Committee Chair

Mark Kotz, Metropolitan Council, 651-602-1644, mark.kotz@metc.state.mn.us
 

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• Work plan
• Meeting schedule
• Committee activity reports and meeting minutes
• Publications and links

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Work Plan FY11

• Standards
  • Advise the Minnesota geospatial community about relevant standards issues.
  • As needed, provide guidance to groups working on proposed state geospatial standards. Facilitate review of proposed standards and, if appropriate, recommend for approval by the MnGeo advisory council(s).
    • Digital Stormwater System Data Exchange Standard:  Make this draft standard available for public review.  Review comments and modifications to standard and, if appropriate, approve a revised draft standard as provisional for approximately a year while it is tested.
    • Other standards as they emerge
  • Assess changes that may be needed to the Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines to respond to changes at the national and international levels and to more adequately document web services.
  • Work with the Office of Enterprise Technology to encourage creation of a long term state standards approval process.
  • Review and respond to national standards as interest and resources allow.
     
• Geospatial Architecture
  • In conjunction with MetroGIS, work toward defining a state geospatial broker and front end portal/commons. Evaluate and pursue opportunities for funding and attempt to build an initial site with the limited goal of displaying the concept for further input and development [for details, see the Geospatial Commons Workgroup webpage]
     
• Communication
  • As needed, maintain the Standards Committee website with the core purpose of archiving and/or linking to approved standards.
  • As needed, publish information about approved standards in other appropriate media, such as the Minnesota GIS/LIS newsletter.
     

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Meeting Schedule

Calendar: Check the calendar for the date, time and location of the next committee meeting. If none is listed in the next month or two, check directly with the committee chair. All meetings are open to the public and visitors are always welcome.

 

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Committee Activity Reports and Meeting Minutes

These reports and minutes cover committee activities from 2006 - May 2009.

• Committee activity reports:  See the Committee Reports webpage (for FY2007 see the Geospatial Architecture Committee, the former name for the Standards Committee).
   
• Committee meeting minutes:  Click on a meeting date to view the minutes for that meeting (minutes after December 2003 are in PDF format).
  Scroll through the list for older meeting dates that are not displayed (minutes for March and November 2005, and for the February 1999 retreat are not available).
   

February 8, 2011 notes February 8, 2011 agenda May 26, 2010 notes May 26, 2010 agenda April 16, 2010 notes April 16, 2010 agenda March 20, 2009 January 27, 2009 November 18, 2008 June 12, 2008 May 6, 2008 March 4, 2008 January 8, 2008 November 13, 2007 November 13, 2006 April 26, 2006 August 18, 2005 November 8, 2004 December 16, 2003 March 14, 2002 November 27, 2001 February 8, 2001 December 12, 2000 June 8, 2000 May 9, 2000 March 14, 2000 January 11, 2000 November 9, 1999 September 14, 1999 August 24, 1999 June 10, 1999 May 11, 1999 March 23, 1999 January 19, 1999 November 24, 1998 September 8, 1998 August 25, 1998 June 9, 1998 May 12, 1998 March 24, 1998 January 20, 1998 November 25, 1997 October 28, 1997 September 23, 1997 August 19, 1997 June 3, 1997 May 13, 1997 April 1, 1997 February/Retreat 1997 January 7, 1997

 

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Publications and Links

• Minnesota State GIS Enterprise Conceptual Architecture Design, March 2005. This document defines a high-level architecture for information technology and web-mapping interoperability in support of the goals outlined in the state’s strategic plan for GIS: the Minnesota Spatial Data Infrastructure. The structural design proposed would promote interoperability among GIS data and application providers, increasing efficiencies and reducing long-term costs in data resource and software application development. (22p., 178K., PDF) | report details
  • The Case for a Minnesota State GIS Enterprise, September 2006. A non-technical introduction to the Conceptual Architecture Design document, including an example of the benefits that such an architecture would provide.  (8 p., 67K, PDF)
     
• Positional accuracy handbook: using the national standard for spatial data accuracy to measure and report geographic data quality, October 1999. (33 p., 920K, PDF)
   
• Starting points: conventions for geographic information, September 1996. Catalogs more than 55 publicly developed specifications and procedures for geographic information systems. (11 p., 389K, PDF) | report summary
   

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