Road Centerlines are one of the foundational elements of our state's and our nation's Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). On May 15, 2025, CGIA hosted a Community Forum on the California Roads Sharing (CaRS) program. It's a refreshing story of successful collaboration on California's SDI.
Our featured speakers were Gene Barerra, GIS Manager with the County of Merced, and Chingsou Keith Chervunkong, GIS Specialist with the Caltrans Office of Data Services and Technology. Gene and Keith provided an overview of the California Roads Sharing (CaRS) Program. This program aims to establish a statewide roads dataset that will be available for use by stakeholders in California using a web-based geospatial roads data management platform. The presentation discussed other successful roads data collaborations in other States, how the CaRS Program is utilizing various roads datasets in California, collaboration, the data sharing process between Caltrans, CalOES, and participating counties, the results of NG911 Data Integration from five California Counties with Caltrans Roads Data, and more.
Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/Tv5EBeJaSXI?si=A9H-ah6nHCjGkJP7
2025_05_15 - CaRS Community ForumSome info that was shared in the chat during the meeting:
12:09:26 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
Welcome! Please feel free to enter questions into chat.
12:09:39 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
CGIA 2025 Awards Nominations Deadline is May 18
https://cgia.org/cgia-awards-program/ Awards Ceremony is July 15 in San Diego (Esri UC)
12:09:51 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
CGIA Board Member Nominations deadline is May 18 https://cgia.org/2025/04/join-the-cgia-board-of-directors-nominations-now-open/
12:10:01 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
CA Department of Finance 2025 California State Data Center Spring Meeting (virtual): Multiple presenters will speak on estimates and forecasts, census and population estimates, age and race, and housing. The meeting link will be sent to the registrants a few days before the meeting.
May 22, 9:00 to 12:30 pm - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-california-state-data-center-sdc-spring-meeting-tickets-1344187092779
12:10:38 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
https://cgia.org/2025/05/professional-development-webinar-3-successfully-navigating-your-promotion/
12:10:41 From Gene Barrera to Everyone:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/19abd0c0c16144efa53db6c75585b8f5
12:12:20 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
FHWA = Federal Highway Administration
Robin Harrington:????
12:13:18 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
AEGIST=Applications of Enterprise GIS for Transportation
12:13:46 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
Yes, we will post the slides on cgia.org afterwards
12:17:11 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
ARNOLD = All Roads Network of Linear Referenced Data
12:19:59 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
HPMS=Highway Performance Monitoring System
12:24:08 From Marcus Harner to Everyone:
We, Shasta County, has roads but not gates. Roads are not attributed if they are behind a gate though.
12:27:08 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
Next Generation 911 (commonly referred to as NG911) is a digital, internet protocol (IP)-based system that will replace the analog 911 infrastructure that’s been in place for decades. https://www.911.gov/issues/ng911/
12:34:15 From Gene Barrera to Everyone:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/19abd0c0c16144efa53db6c75585b8f5
12:42:22 From Roland@CGIA to Everyone:
As @Jane Schafer-Kramer said: CGIA 2025 Awards Nominations Deadline is May 18
https://cgia.org/cgia-awards-program/ Awards Ceremony is July 15 in San Diego (Esri UC).
The CaRS project was one of the winners at last year's ceremony. Do you know of a project that's worthy of this year's awards?
12:49:33 From Donna Miranda-Begay to Everyone:
Good presentation - Thank you.
12:49:35 From Donna Miranda-Begay to Everyone:
How are CA Native American Tribes involved? Both federally and non-federally recognized?
Question from Donna Miranda-Begay, CEO CA Tribal GIS and member of the Tübatulabals of Kern Valley. www.catribalgis.org
12:58:14 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
https://catribalgis.org/gis-summit-1
12:59:54 From Roland@CGIA to Everyone:
Are you coordinating with the Overture Maps project?
13:00:53 From Jane Schafer-Kramer to Everyone:
Home - Overture Maps Foundation
13:05:17 From Daniel Machado to Everyone:
Google has a mechanism for sharing data with them directly: https://contentpartners.maps.google.com/
13:05:41 From Marcus Harner to Everyone:
Thank you Daniel
13:06:38 From Daniel Machado to Everyone:
^ We participated from Solano County to share our data directly to them. Esri also has a basemap editor, apologies if this is repeated info: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=28450cb78b324aaeaadb751e92d16ae0
13:08:26 From Gene Barrera to Everyone:
County Project | PostalPro