1. Overview
   1. Structures - 28 Community Anchor Points
      1. Shopping Mall / Complex School College / University Fire Station / EMS Station Law Enforcement Prison / Correctional Facility State Capitol Court House City / Town Hall Hospital / Medical Center Post Office Amusement / Water Park Auditorium / Concert Hall / Theater / Opera House Campground Cemetery Convention Center Fair / Exhibition / Rodeo Grounds Historic Site / Point of Interest House of Worship Ice Arena Library Lighthouse / Light Museum National Symbol / Monument Outdoor Theater / Amphitheater Racetrack / Dragstrip Sports Arena / Stadium Zoo
   2. Area of Interest
      1. City and County of Denver
   3. Collaborators
      1. GIS Clubs/Students in Denver
   4. Building on the foundation laid by the OSMCP, The VGI group will be starting a new project to collect structures data in the City and County of Denver. We will be soliciting volunteers from GIS Clubs in Denver for this project and work with them to collect 28 different Community Anchor Points. The data from this project will end up in The National Map and therefore provide a real world learning opportunity for local students to collaborate with the USGS. The Structures VGI project will employ the same OSM Stack used for the OSMCP and collect data to specifications necessary for use in The National Map. This project will focus on a quality process to ensure the data is certified to our standards. We will track costs and benefits by comparing traditional collection methods to a VGI method. and provide meaningful data to TNM that has been directly contributed by volunteers.
2. Goals
   1. Create a high impact project to display benefits of VGI/Crowdsourcing to the Leadership Team
   2. Provide usable structures data to TNM
   3. Work with Volunteers
   4. Make low cost, high reward and document this
   5. Create duplicatable and scalable process
   6. Create project report / OFR
   7. Create project presentation and use it for outreach and education
   8. Once software and data are in place, the project time line with be 3 months
   9. Accomplishing essential components for the critical work stated above. Add additional ideas/research on after success of basic structure.
3. Project Components
   1. Organization and Implementation
      1. Staff
         1. *Greg Matthews
         2. Eric Wolf
         3. Kevin McNinch
      2. Tasks
         1. Develop project outline
         2. Find staff to manage project components
         3. Outreach to partners
         4. Weekly and monthly meetings
   2. Project Sponsorship
      1. Staff
         1. Kari Craun
         2. Larry Moore
         3. Phyllis Altheide?
   3. Research
      1. Staff
         1. *Barbara Poore
         2. Eric Wolf
         3. Holly Caro
      2. Tasks
         1. Look at "sense of community"
         2. Look at implementing a rewards structure
         3. Look at accuracy issues
   4. Cost and Benefit
      1. Staff
         1. *Jennifer Walter
         2. Greg Matthews
         3. Erin Korris
      2. Tasks
         1. Determine relevant costs associated with VGI Structures compared to recent USGS historic costs
         2. Create Meaningful, defensible metric
         3. Create a meaningful baseline of data that can be added to by ongoing VGI projects
   5. Outreach and Facilitation
      1. Staff
         1. *Erin Korris
         2. Joel Skalet
         3. Jennifer Walter
         4. Greg Matthews
      2. Tasks
         1. Develop basic training materials
         2. Process Documentation
            1. Should include point collection, editing, and QC
            2. Include a version of the document Guidelines for Contributing Structures Data to the National Map
         3. Site Visits
         4. Progress Tracking
         5. Develop Certificate of Participation
         6. Create certificate of participation
            1. Depending on types of volunteer opportunities created, this could be specific to each type
         7. Develop internship/in-office volunteer opportunities
            1. Obstacle: Federal security clearance
            2. Internships could be developed with local universities
            3. Example: Experiential Learning Center at UC Denver; set up 1-3 credit hour unpaid internships
            4. In-office student volunteers
            5. Could receive certificate for completing a specified number of volunteer hours
            6. Independent Study credit
            7. Example: The UC Denver GIS certificate requires a 1 credit hour independent study
         8. Develop progress tracking procedures
            1. Include which features have been completed, # of features completed, and hours
            2. Document should be filled out by volunteers
         9. Initial focus is local GIS Clubs. Additional contacts may be local schools, clubs, and GIS organizations
            1. Research current GIS related organizations in Denver area
            2. Create presentation materials about project
            3. Site visits to inform groups about the project and to train volunteers
            4. Possibly create group events (point collection?) similar to OSM, with local GIS clubs and student groups
         10. Develop Training Materials
             1. Build off of process documentation and the Guidelines for Contributing Structures Data to the National Map
             2. Include introductory material to OSM model and crowdsourcing
             3. Potential Training Needs:
             4. VGI Project and NSD presentation
             5. GPS Point collection
             6. Potlatch interface training
             7. ArcGIS QC process
             8. Progress tracking
   6. Specifications
      1. Staff
         1. Jennifer Walter
         2. Greg Matthews
      2. Preliminary Structures Specifications have been created. This will need to be tuned as the project grows.
   7. Quality
      1. Staff
         1. *Erin Korris
         2. Jennifer Walter
         3. Greg Matthews
         4. Austin Green
      2. Tasks
         1. Develop QA/QC Procedures
         2. Develop Process Documentation
         3. Develop Process for Volunteers to QC volunteer data
            1. This can be a student volunteer that Chuck Matthys will be bringing in to do work. They will have prior security clearance so that they can work with USGS staff on site.
         4. Develop process to QC Structures in ArcGIS
            1. Austin and Greg will develop this
   8. Software
      1. Staff
         1. *Eric Wolf
         2. Kevin McNinch
         3. Greg Matthews
      2. Tasks
         1. Finish Potlatch 2 Structures Interface
         2. Develop user community login
         3. Create ability to tag Structures with a provisional tag and a certified tag
         4. Create views of data based on provisional and certified tag
         5. Create meaningful grid structure so that a team of volunteers can have responsibility for areas
            1. Possibly quad based
   9. Data
      1. Staff
         1. *Kevin McNinch
         2. Eric Wolf
         3. Austin Green
         4. Greg Matthews
      2. Tasks
         1. Get the final data out of PostgreSQL and into the GAZ/Vector DB
         2. Ensure this data will be used in TNM and all mapping products
         3. Develop FME tools to get data export Structures data from PostgreSQL to GeoDB
         4. Submit this data to MapQuest and/or OSM
   10. Scale
       1. Staff
          1. Corey Dakin
          2. Eric Wolf
          3. Kevin McNinch
          4. Greg Matthews
       2. Tasks
          1. Possible 2nd phase - Denver County Quads
          2. Submit data to MapQuest and OSM
          3. Work with additional volunteers via OSM meetup groups
          4. Ongoing work on the GeoCloud (Corey)
   11. Communication Plan
       1. Staff
          1. Eric Wolf
          2. Greg Matthews
          3. Barbara Poore
       2. Tasks
          1. Create project report / OFR
          2. Presentations
          3. Web site development