Synopsis of House Bill No. 2175
Geographic Information Systems in Kansas
Seeks to make changes to the current governance
structure of geographic information systems in the
following three main areas:
1. Establishes the Kansas Geographic Information
Systems Policy Board in statute vs. gubernatorial
executive order, where it has been since 1989 and
last updated in 2006.
This bill also reduces the number of
members from 37 to 21
The GIS Policy Board continues to be a
proactive and necessary advisory
group that promotes collaboration,
consolidation and efficiency among
state and local entities.
2. Establishes the position of Geographic
Information Officer (GIO) in the Office of
Information Technology Services (OITS)
…a newly reorganized central IT office
under the Kansas Executive Chief
Information Technology Officer. This
entity replaces what was formerly the
Division of Information Systems and
Communications (DISC).
3. Establishes a Kansas One Map
Strategy.
This bill seeks to cause all state entities
that implement GIS technologies to work
closely with the GIS Policy Board to
continue to build and rely on a single
central source of accurate and reliable
geospatial data, data standards and best
practices, to benefit all users in both the
public and private sectors.
Meaning of “Kansas One Map” and
purpose of new enabling Legislation
From weather maps to navigation
systems in cars and on phones,
citizens and governments constantly
refer to digital map resources each
day.
Over the course of time, multiple sources
of the same map have been developed
Much effort and expertise has gone
into data standards for digital
mapping, but…
It has become imperative to establish
an authoritative, reliable standard
map that can be used to share
information between agencies and
citizens.
The Governor’s GIS Policy Board has
existed (by Executive Order) for 20+ years
But there needed to be enabling legislation
to begin putting a series of authoritative
maps and responsibilities in place to:
Improve communication and cooperation
Realize substantial savings by multiple
entities and agencies and departments all
duplicating effort and expense managing
multiple versions of the same thing.
The idea of Kansas One Map…
…stems from a concern that if there
isn’t some standard, reliable
maintained, and authoritative “base”
map onto which features can be
placed, shared, and builtonce/shared/used often, a very
important functional and efficiency
benefit will be missed.
Representing fundamental physical
features properly at a specified scale
(roads, addresses, parcels, buildings,)
and aligning to that the basic
organizational boundaries (states,
counties, cities, schools, election
precincts, utilities, etc) provides a common communication
‘language’ for visualizing the “Where”
impacts of policy decisions.
Time is ripe to gain a very beneficial
savings in cost, time and effort to
organize a well built and maintained
version of the hundreds of maps and
themes used in government in
Kansas.
ORKA
• Simple Viewer
Open
Records • Lets users view CAMA data and GIS data
for
together over the internet
Kansas
• Allows for a standardized view from
Appraisers
county to county
ORKA
CAMA
Mapping
Building Sketches
ORKA
• A Password protected ORKA site is exists
for most of the centrally hosted sites.
• Not available to the public unless you
decide you want it to be.
• Can be used by state agencies & counties.
• Could develop into a Commercial sales
database for county appraisers. (need to
overcome funding hurdles)
• This state version of ORKA does not
include sales information.
Benefits
• County offices, such as ROD’s & Clerks,
won’t have to pay the database license
fee
• Standard look and feel for all counties
data
• Easy to use
• Emergency responders
• State agencies
• Kansas Department of Health & Environment –
property access, environment studies
• Kansas Department of Transportation – rightof-way studies
• Kansas Corporation Commission – land owner
notification
• Kansas Water Office – land owner notification
• Kansas Bureau of Investigation
• Kansas Highway Patrol
• Other state agencies and organizations
ORKA
I will be contacting counties to give you
your username and password and to get
your GIS data for ORKA
melissa.crane@kdor.ks.gov
Thank You!