Road Centerlines: One Step Closer

The Arkansas Road Centerline file has been updated and now includes Cleveland County. Data sharing in Arkansas is nothing short of awesome. Big THANK YOU to those that continue to contribute to the Arkansas Road Centerline File effort. AGIO staff are working with Newton County and hope to have it posted in the coming months.

The ACF file has exceeded the capability to be downloaded via clip, zip and ship as a shapefile. Other formats work properly.

The file can be downloaded via clip, zip, ship at http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=acf+dl

Those requiring the entire statewide data set as a shapefile can retrieve it from ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/

New:
Cleveland

Updates:
Marion
St. Francis
Garland including Hot Springs Village

2009 NAIP Imagery Now Available

Thank you to Steve Walker, Farm Service Agency (FSA) for providing the 2009 1-meter natural color orthos created via the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP).

The files are available for download via ftp: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/geostor_raster_01/2009/NAIP

The Ortho Footprint for Files on GeoStor FTP has been updated as well:
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=ortho+index

Arkansas Road Centerline File Updated

Big thanks to all those particpating in the Arkansas Road Centerline File Program.

Downloading the statewide dataset will require a FGDB.
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=d0d36cd5b57607113e37f3970018cf99

You can download the statewide datasets as a shapefile from the ftp site (TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line)
ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/

Updates
Arkansas
Ashley
Baxter
Boone
Carroll
Columbia
Conway
Van Buren

Zip+4 and Situs Address Data Available

The Arkansas Geographic Information Office announced today that ZIP+4® centroid coordinates and physical address points (for available counties) have been published and are available for consumption on GeoStor... Read full story here: http://wp.me/pA5NN-1z

Zip+4 Data - http://bit.ly/8o2s1Q
Situs Address Data - http://bit.ly/5GL3Kz

Cadastral data Added and Updated

Big thanks and congratulations to all those particpating in the County Assessor Mapping Program. Roughly 107,300 centroids and 118,850 parcel polygons have been added to the CAMP databases.

Downloading the statewide parcel dataset will require a FGDB.

You can download the statewide datasets as a shapefile from the ftp site

New Files
Baxter (pt/poly)
Carroll (pt/poly)
Columbia (poly)
Hot Spring (poly)
Mississippi (poly)
Sebastian (pt/poly)

Updates
Chicot (pt/poly)
Clark (pt/poly)
Clay (pt/poly)
Columbia (pt)
Conway (pt/poly)
Craighead (pt/poly)
Faulkner (pt/poly)
Pulaski (pt/poly)
Vanburen (pt/poly)

WGS84 Conversion

I have been working on converting all web map services to WGS84 and it is becoming a long and laborious project so I want to know if people even want to convert to WGS84. If no one wants it I'll just leave everything as is and move on to something else.

Pros:

• It's a standard projection, so it makes mashups A LOT easier
  
• GPS points would work (they have to be converted to UTM now)
  
• Our services would be compatible with just about everyone else
  
• You can still use the services in your map documents
  

Cons:

• It's a pain to have to re-project the data every time
  
• The cached services in WGS84 will not re-project on the fly
  
• You will get a warning about different projections in map documents
  

There will be a poll on our blog, please select your preference there.

http://geostor.blogspot.com/

Glen

 

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

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