Meeting with Aaron Ludmer 28 SEP 18

Owned by Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 05, 2019
2 min read

Attendees: Aaron Ludmer, Kevin Lim, Jonathan Bailey
Date: 281000Q SEP 18
Location: 330 Sparks 2437

Agenda

Our agenda was to discuss the following items:

  1. current level of integration and involvement with FGP;

  2. GIS activities to date on OPP; and,

  3. contents of the MapInfo data folder.

Discussion

FGP

  • Aaron sits on the Board of Directors of FGP

  • There are 3 committees on which TC can participate

    • Client services (vacant)

    • Data working group (Joshua Boettcher)

    • Technical working group (vacant)

  • Aaron suggested that someone from EGIS should sit on the technical working group

  • FGP has a Data Quality Assessment Template (http://mytc/RDIMS/14533765) that he shared with us

OPP

  • There’s an effort underway to establish a GIS Centre, which would define GIS best practices, data governance, etc., within Transport Canada

  • This effort is under Christian Dea, DG Transportation Economic Analysis

  • Aaron has documents that describe its envisioned role in relation to EGIS, TC, and FGP, which he will share once the concept is approved by the DG

MapInfo data folder

  • Don’t use the contents of the Shared folder; its contents are suspect

  • Aaron and other members of the GIS Centre will examine the contents and post relevant datasets to the sandbox portal

General

  • AIS data

    • exactEarth is the new data provider

    • Jeihua should coordinate with Aaron data loading and access via EGIS

  • TransCAD is a major GIS component within the Economic Analysis group

  • EGIS will encourage data custodians to store data in the cloud, rather than on-premises

    • Open data in ArcGIS Online / ArcGIS Hub? Probably requires coordination with FGP

  • Is it possible to restrict the level of detail available to a user based on role?

  • Would it be possible to save a map document or image to RDIMS?

Action Items

  • Aaron to share documents & diagram after approval from his DG (in progress)

  • @Jon to create an account on sandbox portal for GIS Centre staff (completed)

  • GIS Centre team to publish interesting and useful data (not started)

  • @Jon to put @Jiehua in contact with Aaron to coordinate loading AIS data (in progress)

  • @Stefan to decide which member of EGIS team to sit on FGP technical working group (not started)