Hoosier Hospitality: The Many Ways of Accessing Spatial Data Through the Indiana Spatial Data Portal

Justin Peters, GISP
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Anna Radue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

The Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP), an IndianaMap asset, provides several ways of viewing and downloading Indiana spatial data. Through a unique partnership with the State of Indiana, Indiana localities, the Indiana Geographic Information Council, Federal Agencies, and Indiana University, the ISDP provides access to over 20 terabytes of geospatial information.

Primarily serving raster datasets, the ISDP provides public access to Indiana spatial data as one of its primary missions. To maximize potential use by the various sectors, the ISDP has multiple methods of viewing, downloading, and online access to GIS services. This presentation will briefly discuss the architecture of the ISDP and the numerous ways to consume the vast amount of data contained within. Among the topics will be the single file download page, the multiple-file download desktop application, the online viewer, using services within desktop GIS and remote sensing applications such as ESRI and ERDAS products, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web coverage services (WCS) format, and using the services in web and mobile applications.

The ISDP received the Indiana Geographic Information Council’s 2010 Excellence in GIS Award for the higher educational sector for adding new web mapping services. The presentation will highlight some of the websites and mobile applications that use these newly offered public services.

Justin Peters has been working in the GIS industry for over 15 years in State government, the private sector, and higher education.  He currently works as a GIS Specialist for UITS (University Information Technology Services) at Indiana University and is a full time staff in the Research Technologies unit of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.  With undergraduate degrees in Geography and Geology from Indiana State University, he is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Information Science from Indiana University.

Anna Radue is a database and GIS specialist at Indiana University, providing GIS and remote sensing technical support to all campuses. She administers license agreements with ESRI and ERDAS and supports the Indiana Spatial Data Storage Portal and Indiana Spatial Data Services. Her areas of interest include enterprise GIS and image archiving. Anna has represented the education sector on the Indiana Geographic Information Council for the past 6 years and currently serves as president.