Mike Dolbow

Bio: Mike Dolbow is a GIS Supervisor for MnGeo, where he serves as the Operations Manager for the MN Geospatial Commons (https://gisdata.mn.gov) and provides leadership in spatial services for the State of Minnesota. He supervises a team of GIS staff who serve a variety of state agencies and Minnesota stakeholders, with a focus on the Minnesota Department of Health.

A New Foundation for Minnesota GIS: The Geospatial Commons

In March of 2015, Minnesota released a new collaborative place for users and publishers of geospatial resources in Minnesota: the Geospatial Commons (https://gisdata.mn.gov). This culminated over a decade of research and workgroup efforts to build a foundation for a Minnesota GIS by consolidating the available data discovery portals produced by state and regional organizations. Now grown to 15 publishers and over 500 resources, the Commons has become a critical resource to Minnesota’s geospatial professionals. / This presentation will briefly review Minnesota’s history of data distribution sites, the path toward creating the Commons, and newly emerging challenges in maintaining the Commons, such as systems integration and governance.

open data, data sharing, open source, systems integration, Minnesota