Transcript Welcome to the MAPPS Federal Programs Conference

On the Map:
Building a Better America
Through Increased Use of Geospatial Technology
Jeff Lovin, MAPPS President
Keynote Address
West Virginia GIS Conference
June 8, 2010
• National (international) non-profit 501(c)(6) assn.
• Only U.S. trade association of private geospatial
firms
• Formed in 1982
• 180+ members: private firms
• Staff of six (6) professionals in Washington, DC
area
• Annual budget of over $800,000
MAPPS has an effective and influential
government relations program in Washington,
DC and in the states that seeks to advance
policies that benefit private geospatial firms,
the geospatial community at large and the
nation as a whole.
• Eyes, Ears & Voice for the profession in the States and
Washington, DC – full time staff lobbyist
• Monitor legislation in all 50 states
– Now partner with ASPRS
• Deploy lobbyists in state legislatures as needed
• MAPPS PAC
• Member of COFPAES, COGO, US Chamber of Commerce,
Business Coalition for Fair Competition
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Adopted Strategic Plan
Active Committee System
Liaison With Federal Agencies
Salary & Non-cash Benefits Survey
Economic Survey
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Winter Meeting – January
Federal Programs Conference – March
Summer Meeting – July
Fall Policy Conference (Oct-Nov)
Washington Policy Luncheons
• FLIGHTLINE
• CAPITOL COVERAGE
• WWW.MAPPS.ORG
– News
– Information
– Member Firm Profiles
• Member Firms - engaged in satellite and airborne remote sensing,
surveying, photogrammetry, aerial photography, LIDAR, hydrography,
bathymetry, charting, aerial and satellite image processing, GPS, GIS data
collection and conversion, and other geospatial –related services
• Associate Member Firms - companies that provide hardware, software,
products and services to the geospatial profession in the United States
and other firms from around the world
• Independent Consultant - sole proprietor without payroll or other
employees who provide services in or to the geospatial community
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Past Federal Accomplishments
Brooks Act QBS for Surveying, Mapping
Geospatial Office in DHS
Aerial Surveys Resumed After 9/11
Contracting out by NOAA, USGS, NGA
Reform of FEMA Flood Mapping
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Past State Accomplishments
Passed favorable licensing bills in SC, VA & others
Defeated unfavorable licensing bills in WA, WI
Attacked DOT competition in WA and NC
Sat on State Legislature panel creating VGIN
Assisted firms on sales tax exemption in several
states
Current Activities
Current Activities
• Highway Bill
– MAPPS is seeking the establishment of a Geospatial Management
Office in USDOT, similar to what did in DHS after 9-11.
• Coordination
• Strategic Investment (NSDI, IFTN, etc.)
• Create innovative public-private partnerships between state DOTs in highway
program and private geospatial firms, as recommended in TRB report
• Working with US DOT Inspector General on an investigation into
state DOT duplication of and competition with private mapping
firms, in violation of law passed with help of Rep. Nick Joe Rahall, II
(D-WV)
Parcels/Land Inventory
– MAPPS Cadastre Task Force Chair Susan Marlow testified before
House Financial Services Subcommittee on September 17, 2009
• Parcel system as early warning system to mortgage crisis
• Transparency in TARP spending (geo-enabled visualization)
• Amend Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) to collect data at
parcel, rather than just Census Tract level
• Review Title 13 restrictions on address data in Census
• Met with Federal Reserve Board last week on HMDA collection of
parcel & address data
Digital Coast
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Last year, Congress enacted Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ,
included the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act (§ 12201-12208 of
Public Law 111-11)
– Law creates an IOCM structure, but not a data collection program
– MAPPS (Lovin, Palatiello) participated in NOAA workshop in November, 2009
in Charleston, SC on implementation of the new IOCM law
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MAPPS is seeking legislation to create a data collection program, as called for
in the “Digital Coast” initiative and the NRC Report, A Geospatial Framework
for the Coastal Zone: National Needs for Coastal Mapping
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Digital Coast
Prioritization of requirements
Annual chart Inventory assessment
Data standards
Collection of shoreline delineation, imagery, land use/land cover
mapping, benthic habitat, topo, bathy, aquatic vegetation
Geodetic framework
Consistent national definition of shoreline
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill has dramatically demonstrated the need for
current, accurate coastal geospatial data for management,
prevention, response, and remediation
Geospatial Governance
– MAPPS led the effort to get July 23, 2009 oversight hearing
in House Natural Resources Subcommittee (with
jurisdiction over USGS/FGDC) on Federal Geospatial Data
Management
• John Palatiello & Susan Marlow were witnesses
• Hearing resulted in full Committee Chairman Rahall (D-WV)
sending letter to ARRA Board on use of Census address data for
Broadband mapping requirements
• MAPPS staff now working with Subcommittee staff on possible
follow-up legislation
– IFTN (MAP Act), Governance/Coordination
A Look to the Future
What do these issues all have in common?
• Climate Change/Cap & Trade
• Energy/Smart-Grid
• Jobs/Employment & Economic
Development / Recovery
• Health Care
• Housing/Mortgage Crisis
• Universal Broadband
• Emergency
Management/Response
• Environment /Sustainable
Development & High
Performing Communities
• Homeland & National Security
• Highways, Transportation &
Infrastructure
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– Are on the Congressional & Obama agendas
– Require the NSDI
– Lack a NSDI provision in these bills
And the data to effectively implement these bills
does not currently exist in any comprehensive,
accessible form
MAPPS is working to raise awareness in Congress
Health Care
• Recently-passed Health Care bill has 814
references to geographic terms or provisions
that could require geographic information
• The enacted bill has neither a GIS, GMO or
geospatial utilization or coordination provision
GEOSPATIAL TERM
AREA
GEOGRAPHIC
SIZE
PROPERTY
COUNTY
LOCATION
ENVIRONMENT
TRANSPORTATION
NATIONWIDE
STATEWIDE
INCIDENCE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RESIDENCE
ADDRESS
SPACE
SURVEILLANCE
PLACE
INFORMATION SYSTEM
RELOCATION
DISTANCE
REMOTE
ARCHITECTURAL
PROXIMITY
WORKPLACE
TOTAL
Health Care Bill
NUMBER OF USES
383
51
67
35
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31
32
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42
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26
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13
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10
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H. R. 2454 – American Clean Energy and Security Act
Address Climate Change, Impose a System of Cap &
Trade
No provision to use geospatial data to monitor,
measure, verify or validate the effects of climate
change
No provision to provide a parcel-based system to
measure CO2 for Cap & Trade
No provision to map the smart grid
S. 1619 - Livable Communities Act
• Comprehensive Planning to –
-- coordinate land use, housing, transportation, and infrastructure
planning processes across jurisdictions and agencies;
-- identify potential state, local and regional partnerships for developing
and implementing a comprehensive regional plan;
-- conduct or update housing, infrastructure, transportation, energy, and
environmental assessments to determine regional needs and promote
sustainable development;
• No mention of GIS or geospatial
 Planning + Economic Development = GIS
 Planning + Environmental Protection = GIS
 Planning + Affordable Housing = GIS
 Planning + Public Health = GIS
 Planning + Transportation = GIS
K-12 Education
Obama Administration’s revision to No Child
Left Behind, the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, “A Blueprint for Reform,” a 44page proposal, fails to use the words
“geography” , “geospatial” or “GIS” even once.
ARRA-Stimulus
Other than Broadband Mapping, no major initiative was
funded in the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA)
No -IFTN
LIDAR/Elevation
NSDI
National Map
H.R. 1242 - to amend the Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act
• House-passed bill provides for additional
monitoring and accountability of the Troubled
Asset Relief Program (TARP)
• Includes MAPPS provision that calls on the
Secretary of the Treasury to ensure the official
TARP accountability database "provides
geospatial analysis capabilities."
S. 3217 – “Restoring American Financial Stability Act ”
• Senate-passed financial services reform bill amends the
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act to provide that the new
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with the
Federal Reserve board will collect “as the Bureau may
determine to be appropriate, the parcel number that
corresponds to the real property pledged or proposed
to be pledged as collateral”
Senate Report Language
• “Section 1092 makes conforming and other amendments to the
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The amendments require new data
fields to be reported to the Bureau, including borrower age, total
points and fees information, loan pricing, prepayment penalty
information, house value for loan to value ratios, period of
introductory interest rate, interest-only or negative amortization
information, terms of the loan, channel of origination, unique
originator ID from the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage
Licensing Act, universal loan identifier, parcel number to permit
geocoding, and credit score.”
A Call to Action
 To realize the full potential of GIS
 To mobilize the GIS community to be active,
rather than passive
 To recognize the political reality that the map
or the GIS is not the end, but the means to the
end
 “Lobbying” is not a dirty (or 4-letter) word, it is
a Constitutional right, guaranteed by the 1st
Amendment
 It is “educating” lawmakers
 If not us, who, if not now, when?
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