This message is from Charles Hickman.--------------Johnnie ------------------------------------------------------------ >Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:54:39 -0500 >From: Charles Hickman <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: SDTS data consumer workshop at URISA '98 ITEM FOR GIS DATA COORDINATORS & NSDI PARTICIPANTS - 5/22/98 USGS-SPONSORED URISA=2798 SDTS DATA CONSUMER WORKSHOP Please pass this information on to those members of you staff who may need = to (1) find, (2) download, and (3) translate on-line geospatial information = that is now distributed in the FGDC=A2s Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) from = USGS, NOAA, and other U.S. Federal agencies, or who need to understand how SDTS-encoded data can be used with commercial GIS and public-domain tools. The U.S. Geological Survey will sponsor a one-day workshop for new users = of data available in the Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) on Saturday July = 18th as part of the URISA =2798 Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. = SDTS is a Federal Geographic Data Committee standard used by USGS, NOAA, and other agencies for the on-line distribution of large volumes of vector, raster, = and control point data. Attendees will learn how to find, acquire, and import = DEM, DLG, and NGS geodetic control data. Hands-on exercises will use a variety = of commercial GIS and public-domain tools. More information on this and other URISA =2798 activities is available at http://www.urisa.org/ur98/ur98Index.html NOAA SDTS information is available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/tools/sdts/brief.html. USGS SDTS information is available at http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/. SDTS is a U.S. Federal standard (FGDC-STD-002 and FIPS 173), a proposed = U.S. National standard (ANSI NCITS 320:1998), a requirement when transferring permanently valuable electronic geospatial records to the National = Archives and Records Administration by the Code of Federal Regulations 36 CFR 1229.188(d= )(3), and a mandatory standard for geospatial data in the U.S. Army Corps of = Engineers Circular 1110-1-83. SDTS is a flexible standard for the self-contained, nonproprietary, vendor-independent, metadata-capable distribution and = archiving of geospatial data and for the *blind* exchange of geospatial data between dissimilar software and hardware systems without information loss. USGS has made its holdings of DLG data available on-line in the SDTS = Topological Vector Profile. USGS is also now providing DEM data on-line using the = Raster Profile to SDTS, and plans to use the GeoTIFF extension to the Raster = Profile for DOQ data. NOAA NGS has made its holdings of geodetic control data = available on-line using the Point Profile to SDTS. An expanding number of commercial= and public-domain tools, translators, GIS=A2s, and viewers now use SDTS = data.=20 Continued improvements in these tools will allow easier use of SDTS data. = The workshop will provide opportunities to download SDTS data from Federal web = sites and to use this data with a number of the existing tools. In addition to = URISA in July, a similar SDTS consumer workshop is planned for GIS/LIS =A198 in = Ft. Worth, Texas in November. Questions about SDTS may be sent via email to sdts=40usgs.gov. Apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this message. Charles Hickman -- Geographer U.S. Geological Survey -- Rolla, Missouri, USA (573) 308-3502 chickman=40usgs.gov http://mapping.usgs.gov/ http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/