Implementing TxDOT's Open Data Portal

Mike Zugelder, Adam Breznicky

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1. April 12, 2016 Implementing TxDOT's Open Data Portal Mike Zugelder, Adam Breznicky, Chris Bardash April 2016
2. April 12, 2016 Table of Contents 2 Introduction and Data History Lesson ArcGIS Open Data Portal Lessons Learned and Future Developments 1 2 3 Contact 4
3. April 12, 2016 TxDOT Organization Overview 3
4. April 12, 2016 Who are we? What do we do?  Who we are: – Transportation Planning and Programming Division • GIS Branch of the Data Management Section  What we do: – Deliver the HPMS Submittal & Certified Mileage to FHWA each year – Roadway Inventory Maintenance (Geospatial and Attribute Data) • 300,000 Miles of Roads • City Limit Boundaries • Metropolitan Planning Organization boundaries • Reference Markers – Creation of TxDOTs official basemap tiles and service – Create and maintain the Statewide Planning Map Web, Desktop, and Open Data Portal 4
5. April 12, 2016 TxDOT Historical External Data Sharing 5  Web : – REST Services • http://maps.dot.state.tx.us/ar cgis/rest/services – TxDOT.gov – various – External Sharepoint Sites • Contract Specific  Other : Raw or Queried Data – Zip Files – Attachments – TxDOT DropBox Service
6. April 12, 2016 6 Statewide Planning Map Web – Moving to AGO
7. April 12, 2016 Statewide Planning Map - Desktop  What does it offer over the Planning Map Web? – ArcGIS MXD (Map Document) – Definition and location queries 7 – Print and export layers/maps – Customizable
8. April 12, 2016 Starting it up • ESRI Quarterly Consult – »Turn on Open Data 8
9. April 12, 2016 Open Data Portal – What is it?  “Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.” –Open Data Handbook  Provides an avenue for other divisions and the public to explore TxDOT’s data catalog  Data available to be downloaded in multiple formats  Reduce data requests and centralize publicly available data  TxDOT’s license agreement with ESRI provides an out-of-the-box Open Data webpage  GIS oriented but you can publish and share over 60 formats including: SHP, FGDB, CSV, XLS, PDF, CAD, JSON, LYR, KML, and much more.  Open Data webpage is a portal to organization’s ArcServer and ArcGIS Online REST Services --- ‘Share’ services with Open Data Group within AGO Organization to make them available 9
10. April 12, 2016 Open Data Portal - Webpage 10 gis.txdot.opendata.arcgis.com
11. April 12, 2016 Open Data Portal - Webpage 11
12. April 12, 2016 Open Data Portal - Webpage 12
13. April 12, 2016 Open Data Portal – Webpage 13
14. April 12, 2016 Lessons Learned & Future Efforts  Lessons Learned – Performance – ArcGIS Online-Hosted versus ArcServer-Hosted services – Publishing Standards – avoid URLs and schema changes – Need a Data Governance Policy for AGO  Future – Inside TxDOT, our division is leading the effort. However, other divisions will surely follow as the site gets more attention. – Google Analytics – Statewide Open Data Portal? • Simple to Participate – Publish and Tag 14
15. April 12, 2016 Open Data Portal - Feedback 15 Know of data which should be shared through the Open Data Portal? Let us know! Contact the Data Management Section of TPP TPP-GIS@txdot.gov