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The document summarizes the Municipality of Anchorage's Core Layers program, which establishes foundational geospatial datasets ("framework layers") that are used across municipal departments. These include imagery, elevation data, parcels, transportation networks, and other reference layers. The program aims to reduce costs by avoiding redundant data creation and ensuring data is consistently formatted and aligned. Maintaining up-to-date core layers in a centralized database accessed via the web provides a single source of accurate, shared geographic information to support decision making throughout the municipality.

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The document summarizes the Municipality of Anchorage's Core Layers program, which establishes foundational geospatial datasets ("framework layers") that are used across municipal departments. These include imagery, elevation data, parcels, transportation networks, and other reference layers. The program aims to reduce costs by avoiding redundant data creation and ensuring data is consistently formatted and aligned. Maintaining up-to-date core layers in a centralized database accessed via the web provides a single source of accurate, shared geographic information to support decision making throughout the municipality.

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Core Layers Status Report

Alaska Surveying & Mapping Conference

Charlie Barnwell
GIS Manager
Municipality of Anchorage
February 12, 2004

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Municipality of Anchorage

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What is a Core Layer?
• The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) framework data concept
establishes a collaborative effort in which commonly needed data themes are
developed, maintained, and integrated by public and private organizations. Sharing
framework data helps to reduce operating costs and to improve service and
decision making. NSDI Framework layers are categorized as follows:
– orthoimagery,
– elevation and bathymetry,
– hydrography,
– transportation,
– government units,
– geodetic control, and
– cadastral data.

• The Municipality uses the NSDI framework concept and defines core layers as
follows:
– Data that is multi-departmental in use and can be used in a variety of
Municipal operations.
– Data that is essential to mission critical operations, e.g. Public safety dispatch
systems.
– Reference source for accurately registering and compiling departments own
data sets.
– Geo-referenced layer for adding attributes, and displaying the locations and 3
the results of analysis of other data.
Why MOA Core Layers

 Digital datasets are not always easily accessible and


are produced in a variety of formats
 Data may not align with one another over an area or
across jurisdictional boundaries
 We need a focused effort on updating the important
(core) layers. Most maps are not up-to-date:
easements for example are out of date; trails was last
done in 1996; land use in 1998.
 Cost: over $1 million citywide to recreate data

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MOA Core Layers

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Framework Layers
OA Core Layers : Data Characteristics
• Seamless;
• Consistently classified with FGDC
metadata;
• Variable resolution, completeness;
• Current to within seven days;
• Variable positional accuracy, but 9-11
study in bowl indicates average seven (7)
foot.
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“Hot” Core Layers: elevation
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging)

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“Hot” Core Layers: elevation

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“Hot” Core Layers: orthoimagery

Benefits
• High resolution: serves
large variety of needs
• Improve base map
accuracy
• Very little vertical
exaggeration
• Matches survey
control
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Other Core Layers: parcels,
subdivisions, other

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Business Case/Motivators
• $1 million to recreate;
• Avoid asking taxpayers to pay for data
multiple times;
• Enhanced responsiveness to data requests;
• Source for consistent data for Anchorage area;
• Use of local data in local decision-making
• 9-11;
• Planning, permitting, utilities, etc., etc. 11
OA Core Layers : Access and Use
• Around-the-clock Internet access;
• User-specified combinations of data and geographic area;
• Public domain, public access—FGDC Clearinghouse
node;
• External and Internal

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MOA Core Layers Web Viewer

http://www.muni.org

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MOA Core Layers Web Viewer
http://www.muni.org

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MOA Core Layers: Management
Approach
Problem Solution
Digital datasets are not RDBMS
always easily accessible and
are produced in a variety of
formats
Data may not align with one Same projection, datum, etc.
another over an area or across
jurisdictional boundaries
Most maps are not up-to-date Regular updates on base
framework layers, e.g.
imagery every two years.
Cost: over $1 billion citywide Enterprise layers used by all
to recreate data agencies. Eliminate redundant
layer creation, maintenance.
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MOA Core Layers: Management
Approach
Spatial Data Types Spatial Indexing

RDBMS
All Spatial Data Fast Access to
Stored in the Database Spatial Data

Spatial Access Through SQL


SELECT facility FROM facility_geom
WHERE RELATE (‘facility’, sdo_gid,
‘INSIDE’, ‘com_area’, 100) =
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‘INSIDE’;
More About MOA Core Layers at:

You can access information at


http://www.muni.org

Comments and questions about MOA Core Layers


should be e-mailed to [email protected]

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