Geoff Maas 2

Bio: Geoff Maas has served as the MetroGIS Coordinator at the Metropolitan Council in St Paul since April 2012. He has a bachelors in Geography and masters’ degree in urban and regional planning with over 20 years of experience working in the fields of planning, GIS, cartography and visual communications in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Additionally, he teaches a graduate-level course in GIS for students of planning and public policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Metro Road Centerlines Collaborative: Process and Progress

The Twin Cities Metro Regional Centerlines Collaborative (MRCC) is a joint collaborative project involving the technical and managerial GIS staff from Minnesota's Seven Metropolitan Counties (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington), the Metropolitan Emergency Services Board and the Metropolitan Council to develop and sustain an authoritatively-sourced road centerline data specification and dataset to meet the core business needs of local, regional and state interests including routing, geocoding and use by the emergency services sector and is publicly available. The MRCC has completed its 'first build' of the data in late 2015, and is refining a 'second build' in 2016.

Inter-jurisdictional data, road data, roads, road centerline, centerlines, Twin Cities Metro