An update on the status of the City of Toronto\'s Geospatial Competency Centre

1. Geospatial Stakeholders MeetingJuly 2010

2. Former Mapping Services Technical Services Division Who Are We? The New Geospatial Competency Centre Former Land Information Toronto Information & Technology Division

4. Blends IT and competency knowledge to solve business problems

5. Separates competency knowledge from lines of business

6. Repository of resource pool (reduces skills overlap)

7. Generates and refreshes knowledge, competencies, practices and skills

9. 2007 – 2008: IT Governance and Organization setup

10. 2009: geospatial transformation discussions

12. Need to enable integration of all core land base data sets within the central data repository

13. Clients don’t know who to go to for services

14. Uncoordinated planning for projects employing geospatial functionality

15. Need to define corporate geo-application development vs. business (divisional) application development

16. Need to better utilize existing geospatial tools and development environment

19. Street naming functions (name selection and validation)

20. Addressing process, including inspection

21. Street status and road acquisition

22. Validation of compliance with conditions for development review

23. Composite utility mapping supporting Capital Works Program

24. Administration of Digital Map Owners Group

25. Ensure that GCC is the prime contact for all geospatial services to City business units and external organizations

26. Create Geospatial Governance

27. Engage stakeholders in GCC business activities

28. Create a new geospatial service delivery framework

30. Serve as first point of contact for geospatial services

31. Maintain foundation geography (land base) data

32. Coordinate policy, standards, and methodologies for applications development

33. Coordinate access to geospatial data and technologies

34. Ensure alignment with enterprise frameworks

35. Promote and share experiences

36. Monitor and track business solution requirements

37. Develop and sustain solutions

40. Participate in an integrated geospatial work plan development

41. Contact GCC for geospatial needs

42. Share business strategies, goals and objectives….. and risks

43. Contribute knowledge and experience

44. Participate in policies and standards development

45. Review, consider, propose new processes and procedures, performance measures and standards

46. Implement best practices

47. Initiate dialogue around issues

49. Identify candidate areas for immediate improvement, utilize all resources to improve efficiency and effectiveness of services

50. Create Geospatial Steering Committee

51. Engage stakeholders in transformation process

52. Diagnose geospatial service delivery

53. Planning and scoping

54. Execute transformation plan

57. Extended geography network

58. More integrated data in geospatial repository

59. Comprehensive, integrated, multi-divisional geospatial strategy

60. Policy framework to support effective integration of geospatial data and technology with business processes

61. Other technologies integrated with GIS

62. Data access through variety of channels

63. New data visualization and analysis tools

64. Extended training and development program

65. New platforms for software development (cost balance)