  March 2022
Portal for ArcGIS is Here!
Portal for ArcGIS is here! Portal is a new Web GIS tool at MnDOT that allows users to create, save, share, and search for GIS content at MnDOT.
Unlike ArcGIS Online (AGOL), saving content to the Portal Data Store does not consume credits! Users can access Portal using their standard Active Directory (AD) credentials. Connect to Portal content using a web browser, ArcGIS Desktop applications, and iOS mobile devices!
Portal guidance has been approved by the MnDOT Web GIS Admins and is available on iHUB.
This document provides an overview of Portal at MnDOT.
Topics include how to become a Portal member, roles, content, groups, sharing, and much more. Check it out!
Portal Guidance Document
- by Mike Eull, MNIT@Metro
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What's New in the Metro District
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Metro District recently completed its annual construction map, which is an important project supporting Metro District’s engineers and planners. 2022 was Metro GIS Coordinator Joseph Mueller’s first year taking on the project, and he apprenticed under MNIT@MnDOT’s Matt Gress, who had been responsible for building this map for several years. More on the metro district construction map: |
GIS Strategic Plan Updates
The GIS Strategic Plan was presented in January to the Data Domains Stewards Governance Group, where it was approved. It was then presented in February to the Governance Committee for a lengthier review and agency approval decision.
If approved, the Strategic Plan will provide a common direction for GIS at MnDOT, clarify current GIS goals, and define requirements. The plan’s objectives will then be implemented through the GIS Operational Workplan, which will provide MnDOT’s GIS workgroups with workplans, action items, and deliverables, with the workgroup’s progress towards the plan’s goals overseen by the Steering Team. The Operational Workplan is under development by the GIS Strategic Planning Workgroup.
- by Dirk McGrane, D6 GIS Coordinator
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Upgrade to the MNCrash Reporting System at DPS
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The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety, along with the Minnesota Department of Transportation Office of Traffic Engineering, recently completed an upgrade to the DPS MNCrash reporting system. The DPS MNCrash is the State’s system of record for collecting, storing and mapping all crash occurrences within the State of Minnesota. More on the MNCrash upgrade: |
The Office of Land Management Seeks Your Feedback!
Do you use right of way data? Do you have any unmet GIS needs that the Office of Land Management could meet? As a part of the project planning process, we are seeking feedback from as many users of our data products as possible. In addition to the outreach meetings with district right of way and surveys staff scheduled in February and March, we invite anyone else to express their opinions or to comment on our efforts to transition right of way maps to GIS from their current static formats.
Please email Jose Aguilar, LIS & RW Mapping Supervisor at Jose.aguilar@state.mn.us to share your thoughts or request an outreach meeting.
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Presentations from the Fall 2021 GIS User Group
Please click this link to watch the Youtube videos from the Virtual Fall, 2021 GIS User Group Workshop. There are 13 sessions to choose from.
There's also still time to register for the Spring GIS User Group Workshop coming up on 4/13/2022!
MnIT: What is BAM and Middleware?
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As a GIS Support Specialist for MnIT at MnDOT I get asked a slew of questions. Here’s three questions I’ve been asked lately I believe need to be brought to the attention of the MnDOT GIS Community:
- What is MnIT’s BAM section?
- What is “Middleware?”
- Where is the best sandwich in Saint Paul? Read on to find out:
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MnDOT Trivia!
The winning names for this year's second annual Name a Snowplow contest included Betty Whiteout, The Big Leplowski, and Edward Blizzardhands. Which of the following was NOT one of the winning names in the inaugural 2020-2021 contest?
- Plowy McPlowFace
- Plow Bunyan
- Darth Blader
- Lord Coldemort
MnDOT GIS Newsletter Team
Bob Diedrich - District Operations GIS Support
Ruojing Scholz - Central Office GIS Support
Mike Eull - Enterprise Development, MnIT
John Stasiak - GIS Coordinator, District 1
Dirk McGrane - GIS Coordinator, District 6
Andy Trcka - MnIT E-GIS Support
Alex Stoiaken - Data Reporting and Innovation Coordinator, OTAT
Galen Kanazawa (Editor) – Seeds Student Para Professional Sr, GIM
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