NSGIC Midyear presentation by the TFTN Panel

1. Strategic Planning for Transportation for the Nation (TFTN)NSGIC Mid-yearProject Status Steve Lewis Geospatial Information Officer, USDOT Director, Office of Geospatial Information Systems, USDOT/RITA/BTS February, 2011

2. Overview & Agenda Project is winding down Final report content and outline is set Writing underway Share the final vision Get your input on the current direction Not too late for some strategic tweaking Identify next steps

4. Opens funding

5. Develops standards

6. Products support broader US-DOT business needs, such as Safety

7. Ability to provide funding support to local entities

8. Existing, branded product

9. Existing staffing resources for Nationwide data integration

10. Expertise in nationwide data assemblage

11. Expertise in nationwide data publishing

12. States choose their own methods

13. Coordination with state E911 and NG911 efforts

15. Next steps Incorporate feedback from this discussion Complete writing Provide document for review by: Project Steering Committee FGDC and NGAC Present document at GIS-T (March 28-30) Public release of the document On to the Business Plan Identify funding More detailed design, prototyping & business case

16. Discussion questions We’d appreciate your input…

17. Open Question #1 Is this level of Federal collaboration possible (e.g. between US-DOT and Census)? If not, why not?

18. Open Question #2 Role and futures of VGI/OSM and relationship to “authoritative sources?” Who (besides MapQuest) believes that OSM may become (or already is) an authoritative source?

19. Open Question #3 What is the real potential for a public/private partnership? Is this a workable model? At least one nationwide data provider has relayed active interest

20. Open Question #4 Anything else that’s on your mind…

21. Additional Questions? Steve Lewis (202) 366-9223 steve.lewis@dot.gov http://www.tftn.org