Ryan Morgan

The board meeting covered several key areas, including membership updates and reports from various task forces and working groups. Discussions included legislative tracking, task force charter amendments, and the presentation of the 2025 Annual Report. Operational updates were provided regarding geospatial services, 911 advisory board addressing requirements, and ongoing 3DEP lidar and inland river elevation projects. Additionally, the meeting addressed the reorganization of the internal SharePoint site, civic boundary changes, upcoming GIS-related conferences, and the modernized National Spatial Reference System.

This charter outlines the mission, goals, and objectives for the Service Delivery Task Force. Its purpose is to evaluate and improve the delivery of geospatial services across the commonwealth by identifying practical solutions, optimizing investments, and fostering sustainable, collaborative, and responsible stewardship of geospatial technologies and data. Key focus areas include leveraging capabilities, enhancing interoperability, researching existing solutions, developing technology roadmaps, aligning IT with business strategy, evaluating cloud and center of excellence models, and balancing long-term improvements with tactical projects.

The meeting featured remarks from the Governor's Office of Administration regarding the importance of inter-sector collaboration in geospatial work. Key agenda items included the introduction of a new representative for the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, updates on recent outreach activities and conferences, and status reports from various subcommittees and task forces. Discussions covered the 911 Advisory Board's 2026 goals, legislative tracking of relevant bills, updates on data sharing agreements with counties, and progress on civic boundary reconciliation and address coordination initiatives. Additionally, the Board reviewed recent and planned lidar data acquisition projects and discussed the upcoming 2026 PA GIS Conference.

The meeting included opening remarks highlighting participation in the 2025 CCAP Annual Conference, the Goddard Mid-Atlantic Flood Forum, and the 2025 AI Horizons Summit. A significant discussion focused on a vehicle fire incident where inadequate geospatial data (unpaved roads, gates) delayed emergency response, serving as a call to action for improved data collaboration. A presentation was given by DGS Bureau of Real Estate on managing the Commonwealth's real estate portfolio using IBM TRIRIGA, noting challenges with inconsistent parcel data access and the desire to partner on statewide parcel data standardization. Updates from the Governance Task Force covered legislative tracking on several House Bills and review of the Task Force Charter. The Service Delivery Task Force reported on successful joint panel discussions regarding GeoAI and planned future webinars. The Data Task Force detailed progress across its working groups, including the drafting of an 'Address Best Practice Guide' by the 911 Advisory Board, efforts to align civic boundaries ahead of the next census, updates on lidar data acquisition through the Elevation Working Group, and progress on developing a statewide schema for aggregated parcel data.

The PA BaseMap 2030 strategic plan, promoted by the State Geospatial Coordinating Board, aims to revolutionize the creation and sharing of maps and associated data by fostering collaboration and workflow improvements. It focuses on establishing a clean, well-maintained foundation of authoritative data that is standards-based, responsibly governed, quality-controlled, efficiently distributed, and managed through defined change processes. Key objectives include coordinating data collection, providing open and accessible authoritative data, delivering a common map for governmental decision-making, establishing single versions of base map layers, and evolving to support 3D frameworks, ultimately ensuring citizens have access to current and reliable information.