1 Richard Butgereit GIS Administrator floridadisaster.org/gis Update on Florida and USNG Implemenation Resources

2 floridadisaster.org/gis USNG Review United State National Grid FDEM’s Incident Mapper Google Maps Mashup w/ USNG Support USGS Response Maps Statewide map series with USNG

3 United States National Grid Lessons learned have taught us that standardized grids are needed for positional reporting. As far back as Hurricane Andrew, problems were recognized for emergency managers...

4 What’s wrong with current systems? We already have… – Latitude/Longitude –Township/Range/Section – Street Address and Zip – UTM

5 Latitude/Longitude Multiple formats are confusing DD , DM , DMS 85 59’24.545”W, 30 16’20.063”N All the same location!!!

6 How far is a second anyway? What is the distance from… ’24.545”W, 30 16’20.063”N To here… ’26.292”W, 30 16’14.546”N

7 Worse yet… What is the distance from , To here… ,

8 Township/Range/Section Township/Range/Section grid from the Public Lands Survey System is an important and good system… – basis of land ownership records – been in use for over 180 years

9 Township/Range/Section But a perfect section really doesn’t exist irregular in coastal areas too large to meet needs of ground crews

10 Street Address and Zip Problematic due to… – rural routes – post office boxes

11 What do you do when the SIGNS are gone?

12 What do you do when the ROADS are gone?

13 16R GU How to read USNG 100,000 Meter Grid – identification for regional areas Grid Coordinates – Easting and Northing position Grid Zone Designation – for a world-wide unique address, identifies the longitude zone number and the latitude band letter

14 Truncate for less precision… Locates within 1000 meters Locates within 10 meters Locates within 100 meters Locates within 1 meter 16R GU

15 16R GU R17R Truncate for locality just like you don’t have to dial an area code to make a local call… all Florida locations will be 16R or 17R

16 16R GU R17R Truncate for locality 100,000 meter zone designation may be dropped when working locally

17 Support for USNG –tools and instructions for GIS staff FDEM’s Incident Mapper –simple Google Maps mashup with USNG tools GeoPDF’s –new PDF formats have GIS capabilities, including USNG support

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19 Florida Geographic Data Library Hosts 1,000 meter and 100 meter downloadable grids for each Florida county

20 Florida Adopts the USNG USNG was officially adopted by the FFCA FDEM adopted the USNG in the State CEMP Updates of GIS/Maps in the 11 Regional Evacuation Studies include USNG Florida Fire College, Florida Fire Chiefs Association, FL National Guard developed curriculum and instructor manuals

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29 Incident Mapper – easy to use – integrated weather data (storm reports/radar) – event data (RECON photos) – USNG support

30 ESRI Support Working with ESRI to develop Public Sector site starters for – Flex Viewer – ArcGIS Sites

31 USGS Response Maps New map series provided by USGS Based on the 7.5 quadrangle map series Under development for some time, with preliminary release to FDEM July 08 Official release September 08 due to Gustav/Ike Most are GeoPDF’s KML index file facilitates download from FDEM web site

32 USGS Response Maps Pre-requisite – KML map viewer – Google Earth – ArcGIS Explorer Obtain KML from FDEM GIS –via –or posted in information messages during activations

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38 USGS Response Maps Maps may be printed Must be printed 34” x 44” to support 1:24,000 scale for use with USNG map readers Map series is available for all southeastern states (from USGS password-protected web site)