Department of Transportation Basemap Editing

Funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Stacey Stark, Matt Teichert, Mark Hawton, Sara Etlick (all Geography)

The overall goal of this project is to create a 1:24,000 scale digital set of Geographic Information System (GIS) BaseMap data for inclusion in Mn/DOT's Location Data Server, which is being developed as part of Mn/DOT's P274 Information Resource project. Because of the magnitude of this effort and the limits of time and resources available internally Mn/DOT sought assistance with the editing of digital data already produced by Mn/DOT's Geographic Information and Mapping (GIM) Unit.

The effort will focus on editing, updating, testing, and documenting existing Mn/DOT BaseMap data developed by Mn/DOT staff. A suite of computer software tools developed by Mn/DOT will be used to accomplish this. All public roads will be the priority for this project. Efforts will concentrate on the evaluation and update of the existing road network data.