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The Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS) is a not for profit, public-private partnership between the Provincial Government, Local Government and the major utility companies in BC.
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The Single Parcel Fabric: the Business Requirements, Part II
by Barry Logan, ICIS General Manager
As referenced in the October ICIS newsletter, creating the single parcel fabric for the province of British Columbia "is Job One" for ICIS. ICIS has named this project BC Spatial.
The first phase of this project involves establishing the specific ICIS member segment business requirements. Over the course of the last 2 months all ICIS Board members and their respective business associates were interviewed and the specific requirements were discussed and agreed upon. Cadastral business requirements were established for each member segment, namely, Local Government, Utilities, BC Assessment and the Provincial Government. The results have been amalgamated and prioritized. As expected, there are member segment specific needs but more importantly, unanimous requirements have been determined. Completeness of the parcel fabric emerged as the number one priority.
Completeness may equate to certain member areas of interest but overall, it is paramount that BC Spatial include all land parcels in the province in order to be deemed complete. Number two focused on currency. Of course, currency is again subject to interpretation but overall, this definition means that the cadastral information must be up to date and include new information reflecting the latest developments in the province. Number three involves accuracy. The importance of accuracy, whether relative or positional or both, is pretty obvious and essential to creating a seamless structure integrating all of the disparate data sets supplied and maintained by the many constituencies.
Now that the work for Phase I has been completed, the next step is to utilize this data in order to review the cadastral standard requirements in tandem with refining the meta data needs for accurately reporting on the state of the data. This is the phase of BC Spatial ICIS is now focusing on.
BC Spatial is first and foremost in support of the ICIS vision of collaborative sharing and integration of spatial data for the economic and social benefit of British Columbia.
I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the ICIS team to wish all of our members a very prosperous 2009.
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| ESRI to Build AddressBC System |
by Steven Garner, Manager, AddressBC
ESRI Canada has been selected to develop the supporting database and system for AddressBC. After an intense selection process, ESRI emerged as the solution of choice out of 10 submitted proposals. "We had several solid proposals; it was a very challenging decision. However, the final decision was based on a selection that best fit the ICIS business and financial model requirements" says Dan Shannon, ICIS President.
ESRI Canada will begin in January 2009 to build the application that will support submission,
storage and management of point address information in BC. Addressing authorities, mainly local governments, will have a choice of methods to interact with AddressBC through either batch submission of address points or use a web-based mapping system to manage their addressing information. Not only will AddressBC provide a central and authoritative addressing database for BC but it will also streamline addressing notification for local governments. For those that choose to use the web-based application, they will have a method of managing addressing information for their area that is fast and efficient.
AddressBC is an ICIS initiative sponsored directly by the Province of BC, TELUS and Shaw Cable Systems with advisory input from the RCMP, ECOMM and BC local government. The AddressBC vision is to develop a central, reliable and authorit
ative point address database for BC capable of supporting emergency planning and response. AddressBC is expected to be operational by late Spring 2009.
For more information see www.icisociety.ca |
| ICIS Staff Update |
Ken Rigler has re-joined the ICIS team as our newest staff member as of January 1, 2009.
Most of our members will know Ken from his many ICIS workshops and from the conferences he has attended over the years as our Training Coordinator. Ken has now expanded his role from a consultant to a full-time staff member.
As the new Membership Coordinator, Ken will continue to help our members get the most value out of their ICIS Membership and will ensure that new members are encouraged to join to strengthen ICIS collaboration. |
CivicSpatial Update
ICIS staff have continued to market the CivicSpatial program to local governments as a benefit of ICIS membership.
To help local governments take advantage of this funding, ICIS is taking steps to make it easier for applicants to develop projects that increases their capacity and improves their spatial data.
Some local governments who have received CivicSpatial funding have contributed Member Profiles that describe what they have been able to achieve with the help of CivicSpatial funding. To view these project summaries please check out our website under Member Profiles at: http://www.icisociety.ca/our-value-proposition/member-profiles.htm
Based on the success of these profiled projects we are currently working on creating 'user-friendly' application formats and templates for common projects that can be adapted to specific local governments' needs. For more information on the CivicSpatial grant program, please contact Ann Archibald. | |
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From the Desk of Mark Zacharias
Colleagues:
This study is an examination of the economic impact of geomatics on the GDP of Australia.
It concludes that spatial information contributed to between a 0.6% and 1.2% increase in the Australian GDP. Extrapolating this to the Canadian 2007 GDP of 1.32 Trillion dollars would indicate the economic impact of spatial data in Canada at between 7.92 and 15.84 Billion dollars.
This is probably not too far off given the similarities between the Canadian and Australian economies and speaks to the need for a single cadastre for BC.
You can obtain the full reports at:
The Value of Spatial Information (221 pages, 2,119 Kb)
Mark Zacharias, ADM, GeoBC
and ICIS Board Member |
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Communication is Key to ICIS Membership |
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by Ken Rigler |
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Mid 2008, I was assigned to take over as Membership Coordinator. This has been a very interesting task with some significant challenges. The biggest challenge is keeping our members informed; informed of new initiatives we are working on for their benefit, and making sure users of our data know what is available and how to access it.
To this end we will be initiating an ICIS GIS Community in the near future. This will consist of an email update service to our GIS technical users and anyone else wishing to subscribe. These email updates will be an important way for us to communicate updates on the WebMap and other developments that will impact our technical users directly. We will also be organizing more workshops, presentations and attending conferences to help keep our members better informed. |
| ICIS Data Tracker Update
by Steffan Chmuryk
Since our SQL Server upgrade in July and August of 2008, several interruptions in our data tracker service have occurred. An initial fix of this system occurred between September and October of 2008; however, issues have remained in the statistics generated.
A number of adjustments have been made to our spatial database, mainly to standardize the names of the separate local governments of BC. By doing this, the data tracker is now able to properly reference the data, and display the appropriate parcel counts for each region:
· Over 960,000 parcels within the Local Government Cadastre; and,
· 50,000 of these parcels were added in the last year.
Problems with the data tracker are resolved, for the time being. In the New Year however, there will be additional information added to the system, such as the dates of previous data updates instead of the date of the last statistical update. There will be additional modifications made to the system as we undergo another software upgrade, with the goal to introduce statistical features to our webmap and portal, through the data tracker application. |
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