McLean County Regional Planning Commission

The Technical Committee

Goals:

• Establish universal, user friendly access to quality, reliable geospatial data & services across departmental, agency or jurisdictional boundaries
• Ensure data is developed and maintained only once, and used over and over by all
• Establish data stewardship, access, cost and distribution policies for all datasets
• Develop a data maintenance plan and coordinate updates of critical multi-agency/cross jurisdictional data layers e.g. addresses, streets, cadastral, boundaries, controls etc.
• Document workflows, editing procedures, metadata and quality control protocols
• Establish consistent standards for similar datasets for all member agencies
• Improve and revise older data schemas as necessary
• Consolidate master data in a central location & create a dynamically updated data dictionary
• Encourage day to day maintenance & mapping of data where it lives
• Develop real-time & remote/field data access, analysis and capture capabilities
• Establish criteria for enterprise-wide data development & prioritization protocol

Collaboration with IT Committee:

• Collaborate with IT committee to utilize and identify "Commercial Off the Shelf Applications" (COTS) whenever possible
• Collaborate with IT committee to develop common "Service Oriented Architecture" (SOA) web services: geo-coding/routing/AVL/publicservice requests (e.g. pot-hole)/mass mailings etc.
• Collaborate with IT committee to establish criteria for enterprise-wide application development & prioritization protocol

Members:

• GIS Specialist, McLean County
• GIS Specialist, City of Bloomington
• GIS Coordinator, Town of Normal
• GIS Specialist, City of Bloomington Township Assessor
• Addressing Technician, ETSB/METCOM
• GIS Director/GIS Coordinator, McLean County Regional Planning Commission