1. Pilot Southeast Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA)
Advanced Applications Team Call

2. Agenda Review of the Southeast CPA Where we are now: Pilot Project
Familiarize ourselves with Data Basin
Next Steps

3. Introduction to the SE CPA Goals
Web-based platform
Allows casual GIS users to find, visualize, and process basic geospatial data in support of conservation planning and delivery.
Serves data in a consistent manner and allows end-users to easily discover, access, and integrate existing data and tools.
Relies on both web services to expose data/tools that are maintained by remote providers and local storage for serving data/tools maintained “on-site”.
Users
Primarily the casual GIS user – (manager, biologist, etc)
Power users are also expected to use the CPA, though they are not the targeted audience

4. Introduction to the SE CPA Benefits
Central Location of data
Ability to find previously unknown data
Increase connectivity even without direct coordination
Users will be conducting planning, analyses, and evaluations from common datasets
Users with out desktop GIS will have basic GIS functionality
Conduct simple overlays and develop maps

5. SE CPA Pilot Project Where we are now
Pilot project hierarchy (gateways/nodes)
Southeast gateway
focused on entire SE with relevant spatial data that spans the entire region
South Atlantic gateway
contains relevant spatial data that is either region wide or specific to the SA
Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks gateway
contains relevant spatial data that is either region wide or specific to the GCPO

6. SE CPA Pilot Project Teams Overview
Coordination team
Coordinate overlap between two teams
User experience team
Focus on the look and feel of the CPA
Making the CPA intuitive for non technical users
Members are from user group and/or have experience improving user experience
Advanced Applications
Focus on functionality of the CPA
Improving analytical tools and technical aspects
Members have GIS and/or technical experience

7. SE CPA Pilot Project Advanced Application Team
Review design mock up of gateways
Prioritize tasks for Data Basin
Choose datasets available in gateways and how those datasets will be represented
Focused on technical solutions
How the data will be assessed
Type of analysis can be done with the data
Provide insight/guidance on technical aspects of gateways

8. Functionality already in DB
Buffer – select 1 or multiple features and buffer in km increments
Project impact calculator?
Filter dataset by column data
Make layers transparent
Can change border and fill color
Create classifications of shapefiles
Select by attributes of shapefiles
Intersect
Will highlight features of shapefile that intersect your selected feature in another shapefile
Can export to shapefile or drawing

9. What datasets do you want
What do you want to do with the datasets
Do you see land mangers using this tool
How do you see land managers in your organization using this tool
What requests to do you get
Do have lots of data that need to be stored
Basic skill level of folks in your organization
Do you have your own geospatial data
Do you curate lots of data

10. Introduction to Data Basin Design mock up

11. Next Steps Set meeting dates Tasks before next meeting
Become members of Data Basin
Explore design mock up
Think about data layers you would like to see in the CPA