City Boundary Update on GeoStor

Forty-three city boundaries are updated for this announcement.  

Below is the list of cities with revisions to the city boundary file.


Austin

Bald Knob
Beebe
Bentonville
Bradford
Cabot
Carthage
Cove
Elm Springs
Fordyce
Garner
Georgetown
Grannis
Gravette
Griffithville
Harrison
Hatfield
Higginson
Hope
Jacksonville
Kensett
Letona
Little Rock
Marion
Maumelle
McCaskill
McNab
McRae
Mena
Morrilton
North Little Rock
Oppelo
Pangburn
Plumerville
Russell
Searcy
Sherwood
Sparkman
Texarkana
Vandervoort
Ward
West Point
Wickes

The file can be downloaded via http://bit.ly/CityBoundary

Very special thanks to the AHTD Mapping Section for this update and all the hard effort it takes to digitize these map revisions and complicated annexation changes.

City Boundaries Updated on GeoStor

City Boundary updates

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) has provided a major update to the City Boundary file. Its a big list this time around folks.  This update includes modifications to the following city boundaries: 

Ash Flat
Bassett
Batesville
Biggers
Birdsong
Blytheville
Brookland
Burdette
Dell
Dyess
Emerson
Etowah
Gilbert
Gosnell
Hot Springs
Joiner
Jonesboro
Keiser
Leachville
Leslie
Luxora
Magnolia
Mammoth Springs
Manila
Marie
Marshall
Maynard
McNeil
OKean
Osceola
Paragould
Pindall
Pocahontas
Ravenden Springs
Reyno
Salem
St. Joe
Taylor
Victoria
Vilonia
Viola
Waldo
Wilson

The file can be downloaded via http://bit.ly/CityBoundary

Very special thanks to the AHTD Mapping Section for this update and all the hard effort it takes to digitize these complicated annexation changes.

Road Centerline and Address Point Files Updated

Arkansas Road Centerline File (ACF) and Address Point File have been updated. ACF updates include: Garland, Izard, Logan, Perry, Pulaski, Stone and Yell counties.  Sebastian county has been updated in the address point file.

ACF by County: http://bit.ly/ACF4
Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/
Filename (TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line)

Address Point File by County:  http://bit.ly/Address2
Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/
Filename (STRUC_SITUS_ADDRESS_PT_point)

Thank you to those who continue to provide high quality data for use by the broader community.

Address, Parcel, Road, Ortho Updates

Addresses (705,783) - This file has been scrubbed again to remove duplicate and null values http://bit.ly/Address2
Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ Filename (STRUC_SITUS_ADDRESS_PT_point)


Parcels- Van Buren County has been updated in this file http://bit.ly/Parcel1
Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ Filenames (CADAS_PARCEL_POLYGON_CAMP and CADAS_PARCEL_CENTROID_CAMP)

Roads- Crawford, Less Sebastian, and Scott have been updated in this file http://bit.ly/ACF4
Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ Filename (TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line)

2010 Scott County Orthos available for download (http://bit.ly/ScottOrthos)

Hi_Res Image service has been updated to include Perry, Polk and Scott Counties.
Connect to GeoStor-Image Server Tutorial: http://bit.ly/ImageServiceHelp

Data Updates and Additions

Thank you to those that continue to contribute data to GeoStor for public consumption.

AR House of Represenatives District Application
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=AR+House+Viewer+APP

Crawford & Johnson County Situs Address Points- updated
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=Situs 

EPA GeoData Gateway- link added
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=EPA+GeoData

Madison & Pope County Parcels- updated
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=Parcels+DL

Circuit Courts- added
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=Circuit

Perry County Orthos- added (will be added to image service in the coming weeks)
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=Perry+Orthos

Polk County Orthos- added (will be added to image service in the coming weeks)
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=Polk+Orthos

10 AR Health Department Layers Updated

The Arkansas Department of Health has updated the following 10 layers on GeoStor.

• Public Water Systems: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=9c092a45f2c4c3a3625f9877e9dd4695
• Community Health Center: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=37d9b1b78b41ddc929a1faf7c254b931
• Heliport: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=1583640d2b4e338edc1f1e8222a79aaf
• Hospital Related Service: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=3c077ae22872adffaec46b90e2a95660
• Hospital: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=d68e448c56aa1418bf4a32b8084b61c0
• Local Health Unit: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=26ddadad511245416e950fc70c74ddb2
• Long Term Care Facility: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=6fc0d15c9fb5b5c51622d9cd1d7cd5bf
• Health Region: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=f4f0f7dda482335bb480233d3b8b9866
• Rural Health Clinic: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=2531cc1e8fd910cdf2eaa653ee4f59dc
• Veteran Affairs Service: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=6ffa9a092f8143b67f060b80c43d68cd

New Orthos in the Delta

High Res Image Service

Eagle Forestry Services/EFS GeoTechnologies (EFS) http://www.efsgeotech.com/ collects and processes a high volume of high resolution digital orthorectified aerial imagery products each year. EFS collected roughly 6,500 square miles of eastern Arkansas between November 2009 and March 2010 for the Corp of Engineers, Memphis District. In subsequent meetings, EFS received permission from the Corp of Engineers to release the data to Arkansas counties and GeoStor for user consumption. The imagery is half meter resolution and covers the Mississippi River, Delta Region, and the White River Bottoms.

The imagery is now available for use via FTP (ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/2010/EFS) and via the HIGH_RES image service. The HIGH_RES image service is a composite of natural color, half meter or better, orthos created after 2008.

Connect to GeoStor-Image Server Tutorial: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1pcTT7Vt-6hL48ZWTBc_ayTTKUXI44gGTtDUN7gwi_KI 

FTP Ortho Index File has been updated: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=4c96c122fbfddff0e12f30e84337e3b4

AR Road Centerline File: Two Counties Updated

These updates are critical to the maintenance of the file and the state appreciates the Cleburne and Jefferson Counties willingness to share the data.

County Clip: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=acf+dl

Statewide Dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/

Filename is TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line

AR Road Centerline File: Five Counties Updated

Grant, Hempstead, Howard, Prairie, and Searcy counties have all provided updates to the AR road centerline file. These updates are critical to the maintenance of the file and the state appreciates the counties willingness to share the data.

Data can be downloaded in one of two ways
County Clip: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=acf+dl
Statewide ACF Data Set: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/

City Boundary and Road Centerline Updates

City Boundaries- provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=1e4ac0a30bf74bbfc90af81180b36265

Arkansas Road Centerline file- Madison, Union, and Woodruff provided by each county
Clip, format, ship- http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=acf+dl
Statewide in shapefile format- ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ (file name: TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line)

GeoStor Update

So many things going on! Brief summary:

• There were some issues with raster downloads, these should be fixed now
  
  • You also shouldn't be able to download a raster data set in incompatible formats now
    
• BIG NEWS!!!!
  
  • Most of our storage hardware will be out of warranty in a few months and you know what happens when stuff goes out of warranty…
    
  • We petitioned for funds to replace that old hardware and it was approved!
    
    • So, hopefully, during the holiday season we will be upgrading our storage hardware.
      
    • This will cause some outages unfortunately so be prepared for it over the holidays.
      
• Image Server
  
  • The migration is on-going, we have it installed and are building the service definitions
    
  • We will be migrating during the holiday season hopefully
    
    • This will affect anyone using our raster caches unfortunately, there will be more on this later
      
• WGS84 Migration
  
  • We are migrating all our web services to WGS84 to be compatible with everyone else, bring on the mashups!
    
  • This will also allow the use of standard GPS coordinates to be used on the map viewers
    
• SQL Server 2008 Migration
  
  • Information about the new SQL Server installation
    
    • Everything will be 64bit
      
      • Windows 2008 x64
        
      • SQL Server 2008 x64
        
      • ArcSDE x64 (Yes they have a 64 bit version of SDE. I know, right?)
        
    • It will be clustered using MSCS
      
    • All new hardware
      
      • 3Ghz Dual Quad Core Processors
        
      • 8GB RAM
        
      • REALLY fast storage - 2TB RAID 10
        
    • Spatial Changes
      
      • We will be using the new SDE data type ST_GEOMETRY which is almost twice as fast as the one we're currently using in Oracle
        
      • We will have SQL Server 2008 Spatial
        
  • Status:
    
    • The cluster has been built
      
    • SQL Server has been installed
      
    • I am working with ESRI to get SDE working because there are some strange issues going on
      

Glen

Visit our blog: http://geostor.blogspot.com/

GeoStor More Data & Updates

The following data has been added or updated throughout the GeoStor System. We appreciate all those willing to coordinate and distribute information via GeoStor- Thank You!

Additions:
These orthos have not been added to the High resolution ortho service. We are still working on our long term strategy to handle the high resolution orthos in an timely manner.
* 2009 Benton and Washington County orthos- Provided by Benton & Washington County
FTP- ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/geostor_raster_01/2009/NWARPC/

* 2008-2009 orthos for select lakes- Provided by Army Corps of Engineers
FTP- ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/geostor_raster_01/2009/USCOE/

Updates:
* All High & Medium Resolution National Hydrology datasets- Provided by USGS with assistance from ADEQ
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=NHD

* City Boundaries- Provided by Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department http://bit.ly/Zpa0i
NHD & City Boundary updates will be reflected in WFS. Basemap cache will be updated in the coming weeks.

* Ortho Footprint for Files on GeoStor FTP updated with ortho additions above
http://bit.ly/4z6TDm

* Inland Electronic Navigation Charts (off site)- Provided by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
http://crunch.tec.army.mil/enc/echarts/IENCShapeFileRequest.cfm

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GeoStor Updates

I know it has been quite some time since my last update on the blog/forum and I apologize for that. It means that I have been REALLY busy working on it, in fact if I don't document my changes I forget most of them. Also, my trip to the ESRI UC was great, I learned a lot, visited with friends, met new friends, and enjoyed some down time in the California sun. If you are an ESRI user and are able to go, I highly suggest it.

Change log:

• Updated the map cache for ACF and the aerials, I have included the 1 foot county aerials where possible in the cache
  
  • It has been rendered and will be added to the servers this weekend
    
• Many, many bug fixes on the website, thanks for all your help finding the bugs!
  
• Added features:
  
  • Add a bookmark for a search (Home page only)
    
  • Get a direct link for search results, you can click it and see it in the address or right click and Copy Shortcut (Home page only)
    
  • Many new help contexts and more visible help
    
  • We have added some new dynamic layers in the viewer
    
    • Sections, Townships, and Quads
      
    • NHD Hydrology
      
    • Legislative Districts
      
    • Census Tracts and Blocks
      
    • County Seats
      
  • The viewer automatically opens the Live Maps & Overview widgets
    
  • Added the AGIO logo to the banner (looks good up there doesn't it :))
    
  • The notifications will stay up longer so it will be easier to read them
    
  • All the beta addresses will be redirected to the production address automagically
    
    • CAVEAT:
      If you are direct connecting with ArcCatalog you will need to change the address yourself unfortunately, this includes any map documents that used the AGS services
      

Coming Soon™*

• Ability to see the metadata thumbnails in the search results
  
• Pagination in the search results
  
• Ability to add search results to the viewer on the fly (cool huh?)
  
• Suggestions?
  

Check our blog out: http://geostor.blogspot.com/

* Coming Soon™ means when I get time and we all know how much free time I have… (that's sarcasm by the way ;))

Glen