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WORKSHOPS
As part of soliciting input
for the strategic plan, in January 2007 MassGIS and its consultant,
Applied Geographics, held six facilitated workshops around the state in
Pittsfield, West Springfield, Auburn, Lawrence, Wareham, and
Boston. The purpose of these workshops was to share ideas on
developing and maintaining four categories of spatial data upon which
many other uses of GIS depend:
- Color orthoimagery (including IR) and associated elevation data,
- Standardized road centerline network with address ranges, and
- Standardized property boundaries as shown on municipal tax maps,
- Critical infrastructure locations (mapped via address to the parcel/building level).
The
workshops also provided an opportunity to generally contribute ideas
and express concerns about the future direction of GIS and spatial data
development in Massachusetts.
The workshops were a key source of information from various stakeholders and were an opportunity to:
- Assess common interests and needs relative to the data listed above,
- Determine what needs are not being met,
- Seek consensus on strategy for further development and maintenance.
Input
In particular workshop attendees were asked to address the following questions:
- How do stakeholders use the given data set, or how would they use it if it were available?
- What level of accuracy, completeness, and currency does the data need to have (including attributes) to support that use?
- How is the data layer maintained if at all?
- How
should data creation and maintenance be managed and funded? Should
costs be allocated amongst users or should they be funded
from general revenues?
- If
data exist at the local level but not statewide, such as street and
parcel data, how do we aggregate those data sets to support regional
and state-wide data needs?
- Would organizations represented participate in constructing a “federated” data set?
- What role should state government play?
- More generally, how should governance of spatial data infrastructure in Massachusetts be handled?
Workshop Attendance
A total of 225 people attended the six workshops The organizational affiliations for those who attended were:
Workshop Presentation
View the Workshop Presentation, including the narrative, provided at the six workshops held around the state in January. Viewing
this presentation works best in Internet Explorer on your computer.
View the narrative (notes) by resizing the bottom frame of the graphic
upward.
Workshop Notes
Notes taken for each of the workshops are also available (MS Word rich text (rtf) format) through the links below:
These notes often include references to the individual who made a
specific comment. If you think what you said has been
misrepresented in these notes or if you have additional comments that
you would like to add on any aspect of this planning process, please
send your comments to Neil MacGaffey at MassGIS (neil.macgaffey@state.ma.us). Thank you.
Workshop Findings, Questions, and Preliminary Recommendations
We heard many, many comments and observations
from those who attended the workshops. From those comments and
observations, we have distilled workshop findings. We also came
away with some questions and a list of preliminary
recommendations. A document containing these findings, questions,
and preliminary recommendations is available for download below.
Workshop Summary Document (rich text format).
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