The business needs of governments drive collaboration with other governments in order to serve their constituents. This collaboration is often hindered by the lack of available resources to integrate spatial data. Common Geo-Registries are currently being implemented in a number of countries to serve as the single source of truth for location data to facilitate collaboration across different organizations and across countries. By centrally managing location hierarchies such as geopolitical, health administrative, and services and how they relate to each other through governance workflows, data can more easily be accessed and shared, such as parcels. By using ontologies, these hierarchies can enable spatial data transformations to harmonize disparate datasets by location in a more automated way. By managing how hierarchies change over time, government entities can more easily visualize and compare indicators from different time periods. We will discuss examples of how Common Geo-Registries are being implemented in different countries and how open source is winning over commercial software to implement them.

1. Enabling Spatial Data Integration,
Collaboration, and Governance using a
Common Geo-Registry

2. Overview
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What is a Common Geo-Registry?
How is a Common Geo-Registry
different from other data initiatives?
Where are Common Geo-
Registries being used today
Where Common Geo-Registries
can be applied today

3. Hierarchy Management
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Single Source of Truth – Does it exist?
Do your data structures and data curation and governance
processes model a single source of truth?
What are the limits of tabular vs hierarchical data formats?

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16. Data Governance
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17. Synchronizing GeoObjects
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18. Common Geo-Registry Interface on GitHub
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https://github.com/terraframe/common-geo-registry-specification

19. Spatial Data Integration
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20. Nathan McEachen
www.terraframe.com
nmceachen@terraframe.com
303-590-5790
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Justin Lewis
www.terraframe.com
jlewis@terraframe.com
360-303-8930