CGIA Community Forum Meetings 2025

Roads SDI on 5/15/2025

The CGIA Community Forum (formerly known as the California GIS Council) is pleased to invite all in the California GIS Community of Practice to attend the next forum on May 15, 2025, 12:00 to 1:30 pm on Zoom. This Forum will highlight the progress being made on building a road centerlines network, a critical piece of California’s Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Our featured speakers are 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 will provide 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 will discuss 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. There will be time for questions and discussion.