Meeting with Aaron Ludmer 28 SEP 18

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)