The purpose of this project is to collect and update Ohio GIS
Metadata entries in the GIS Inventory. Buckeye Hills –
Hocking Valley Regional Development District and The Appalachian Ohio
Geospatial Data Partnership coordinated efforts to accomplish the goals
of this project. At the onset of this project the GIS Inventory records
for the state of Ohio and Ohio counties were not current and there was
no mechanism in place to regularly update the data. This project
successfully updated the Ohio GIS Metadata in the GIS Inventory by
removing dated entries and providing updated information on data
holdings across the state. Cadastral contacts and parcel data status
were added for all counties in Ohio to support emergency responders,
the growing oil and gas industry, and other end users of this data. The
project team identified a sustainability plan for keeping Ohio’s GIS
inventory data current in the future.
Updating and maintaining this metadata is a key service in order to
provide support to emergency responders, local officials, economic
development activities (including oil and gas development), and other
parties who are end users of this data. Several approaches were
evaluated and the best approach to sustain currency in Ohio was to
leverage regional and state coordinators to complete updates on behalf
of the counties. The state data sets would be updated through the state
GIS coordinator. The need for updates would be reviewed annually.
Cadastral contacts would continue to be populated in the
nationalcad component of the GIS Inventory. Data set
availability and currency would be reported in geodatabases and
published to the spatial inventory which links to the GIS
Inventory.
Buckeye Hills – Hocking Valley Regional Development District
Contacts:
Bret Allphin
740-374-9436
bretallphin@buckeyehills.org
Dave Simon
740-597-2506
simon@ohio.edu
Thomas P. Fisher
330-343-6647 Ext. 2231
tfisher@mwcd.org