Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information

Geographic information is critical to the understanding and management of complex economic, social, and natural resources in Minnesota. The Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information coordinates the development of geographic information technologies statewide.

New

• The council's last meeting was June 24, 2009. The council's mission will be taken up by a statewide advisory body to the new Minnesota Geospatial Information Office. Council committees will continue their work. Details forthcoming...
  • Members appointed to the State Government and Statewide advisory councils to MnGeo
  • FY2009 annual report (PDF)
  • FY2009 committee accomplishments, future plans, opportunities and issues (PDF)
     
• Minnesota Elevation Mapping Project
  • Project brochure
  • LiDAR status map (October 2009)
     
• Governor's Commendation awarded to Goodhue County GIS Office
   
• U.S. National Grid Location Marker Proposal -- public review open until December 15, 2009.
   
• "Enterprise GIS" Drive to Excellence Initiative, the Governor's state-government initiative to improve state GIS coordination and accountability:
  • The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo) has been created!
    • See the legislative language
    • David Arbeit appointed Minnesota's first Chief Geospatial Information Officer - see press release.
  • Final Reports:
    • Program Design and Implementation Plan
    • Appendix:  All Agency Interviews
    • MGIO Advisory Body Guidelines
       
• GIS and Related Information: H1N1 Influenza / Public Health compiled by the Emergency Preparedness Committee
   
• Two new state standards:
  • Codes for Identifying Minnesota Cities, Townships and Unorganized Territories
  • U.S. National Grid
     

Important

• New committee members welcome!
  • Committee Reports webpage presents summaries of current committee activities. Reports are posted one week before each full council meeting.
  • FY2009 accomplishments and future plans, opportunities and issues (PDF)
     
• FY2008 Annual Report, including plans for FY09 (PDF)
   
• Online inventories:
  • Minnesota GeoService Finder: Contribute to this community effort to gather and share information about geospatial applications resources in Minnesota -- the intent is to identify collaboration opportunities among public and private organizations.
  • Statewide Elevation and Imagery Inventory: Contribute to this community effort to gather and share information about existing and planned data projects for two vital data layers.
     
• 50 States Initiative Grant final report: Implementing an enterprise strategy for Minnesota's Spatial Data Infrastructure, November 2007 (17 p., 120K, PDF)
   
• Minnesota's Strategic Plan for GIS  A one page summary of the following two documents:
  • Minnesota State GIS Enterprise Conceptual Architecture Design, March 2005. This document defines a high-level architecture for information technology and web-mapping interoperability in support of the goals outlined in the state’s strategic plan for GIS: the Minnesota Spatial Data Infrastructure.
  • A Foundation for Coordinated GIS, Minnesota's Spatial Data Infrastructure, October 2004. Adopted by the council, this is a strategic plan for statewide GIS to help Minnesota organizations more effectively achieve their business goals.

• The Case for a Minnesota State GIS Enterprise: A non-technical introduction to the council's Conceptual Architecture Design document, including an example of the benefits that such an architecture would provide (8 p., 67K, PDF).