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In 2011 the State Cartographer’s Office (SCO) announced a new pilot project to develop an updated and more accurate Public Land Survey System (PLSS) digital dataset for the state of Wisconsin. The intent of this project is to develop and test methods to aggregate accurate local data to update the statewide Landnet dataset produced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the 1990’s.
This report summarizes activities and accomplishments of the State Cartographer's Office for July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 (Fiscal Year 2012). It includes an assessment of progress relative to our 2010-13 Strategic Plan, as well as a list of high-priority projects for 2012-13 identified...
Check out our accomplishments for our last fiscal year (July 2011 to June 2012), and our plans for the upcoming year.
An update on the SCO/UW-Eau Claire "virtual parcel data integration" project that uses county Web map services to create a statewide view of parcels.
The State Cartographer's Office and UW-Eau Claire have launched a research project to examine the feasibility of producing an online multi-county parcel map viewer.
Check out our accomplishments for our last fiscal year (July 2010 to June 2011), and our plans for the upcoming year.
This report summarizes activities and accomplishments of the State Cartographer's Office for July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011 (Fiscal Year 2011). It includes an assessment of progress relative to our 2010-13 Strategic Plan, as well as a list of high-priority projects for 2011-12 identified...
(May 2012 - June 2013) WiscLINC represents Wisconsin's only effort at providing an NSDI (National Spatial Data Infrastructure) clearinghouse node. Initiated in the mid 1990s, the catalog has become dated in terms of both content and functionality. We are in need of a newer framework for an updated catalog of geospatial data in the state. Objectives of the project include: enhanced functionality to provide data access paths for download as well as...
(February 2011 - June 2013) The State Cartographer's Office has proposed developing a statewide cartographic database to support a variety of map services and products including rendered maps, rendered layers, map image tiles, Web services, and raw data layers. The project has linkages to other initiatives at the national and state level, including the National Map and the Esri Community Maps Program. This project is in the initial planning and requirements-gathering stage.
(Ongoing) WIGICC (Wisconsin Geographic Information Coordination Council) was formed in 2008 to serve as a forum and coordinating body for geographic information and technology in Wisconsin. The goal of WIGICC is to give stakeholders in the geospatial community a voice in statewide initiatives and issues. The State Cartographer, along with the state's Geographic Information Officer, is a non-voting, ex officio member of the Council. The Council itself is formed of 19 members...
(July 2011 - June 2013) Wisconsin's current statewide PLSS layer, Landnet, is out of date and does not make use of more accurate local datasets. Improving this layer would provide needed statewide data as well as model a successful statewide data integration effort. The goal of the SCO PLSS project is to implement a pilot study of PLSS data integration for a subset of Wisconsin counties, and to identify and assess the barriers to a statewide effort.
(Completed April 2011) The Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office recently launched new versions of ControlFinder and PLSSFinder. The new applications are built on open source software, including GeoMoose, OpenLayers, JQuery, MapServer, and PostGIS/Postgresql. The apps also make use of the Google Maps API for base map display. Control and corner point information for these applications comes from county, state and federal contributors, including the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), the US...
(Completed February, 2011) WHAIFinder (the Wisconsin Historic Aerial Image Finder) is an online application designed to facilitate access to a collection of 1937-1941 aerial photographs covering the state of Wisconsin. WHAIFinder was developed collaboratively by the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office, the Robinson Map Library and the University of Wisconsin Digital...
(September 2011 - February 2013) In 2011, the State Cartographer's Office received funding through the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP) for a project entitled "Business Plan Development for a Wisconsin Aerial Imaging Program." The project is examining existing models used to manage orthophotography projects in the state, and based on considerable community input, analyze the lessons learned from these past projects. The expected outcome is a formal...
About "Hot Topics" A "Hot Topic" is an issue we judge to be of considerable importance to geospatial professionals in Wisconsin. Our goal is to make this space a quick place to go when you want to know the latest on these major issues. Please mail us your ideas for Hot Topics! During the late spring of 2012, the State Cartographer's Office began work on a Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP) project entitled "Business Plan Development for a Wisconsin Aerial Imaging...
The SCO is proposing to develop a statewide cartographic database for small- and mid-scale mapping.
Anyone who missed the September 23 online broadcast offered by the State Cartographer's Office and Geographic Information Office can now view an online archive of the video.
