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Minnesota Geospatial Standards, Domains and Lookup Tables

The GAC is in the process of reviewing and approving standards earlier approved by the former GCGI. As each of the earlier standards is approved by the GAC, it will be moved to the GAC table below and removed from the GCGI table.
 

Standards Approved by the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council (GAC)

Name of Standard Additional Resources
Address Point Data
  • Domains and lookup tables (see section below)
Bikeways Data
  • Domains and lookup tables (see section below)
CTU ID (City, Township, Unorganized Territory)
County ID
  • Domains and lookup tables (see section below)
Damage Assessment Data
Emergency Service Zone Data
  • Domains (see section below)
Parcel Data
  • Domains and lookup tables (see section below)
Positional Accuracy Measuring and Reporting
Road Centerline Data
  • Domains and lookup tables (see section below)
State ID  
Stream ID (Codes Identifying Reaches and Watercourses)  
U.S. National Grid

 

Standards Approved by the Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information (GCGI)

Name of Standard Additional Resources
Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Codes Identifying Watersheds  
Codes Identifying Lakes and Wetland Basins  

 

GAC Standards Under Development

Name of Standard Status
Digital Stormwater System Data Exchange Draft standard developed by the Metro Stormwater Geodata Project, building on earlier work by the GAC Standards Committee, was open for public review through September 3, 2021

 

Domains, Lookup Tables and Schema Templates for GAC Standards

Resource Description
Domains (xlsx), updated 11/21/2024
  • Used especially in address point, parcel data and road centerline standards
 An Excel file with a separate tab for each of the more than 40 domain tables used in all of the GAC approved standards. Also included is an index tab showing which standard(s) each domain is used in and a changes tab showing the last time each domain was modified.
Lookup Tables (xlsx), updated 4/14/2023 County; State; U.S. Postal Service Default City (5 worksheet tabs)
GAC Standards schema templates (fgdb and xml formats), updated 11/21/2024 Includes the domains and lookup tables

 

 

National Geospatial Standards

Adopted National Standards

    Federal Geographic Data Committee Standards

Name of Standard
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Part 1, Biological Data Profile
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Part 2, Metadata Profile for Shoreline Data
Spatial Data Transfer Standard - SDTS
Cadastral Data Content Standard
Classification of Wetlands and Deep Water Habitats
National Vegetation Classification Standard
Soil Geographic Data Standard
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards
  • Reporting Methodology
  • Geodetic Control Networks
  • National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy
  • Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facilities Management
  • Nautical Charting Hydrographic Surveys
Content Standard for Digital Orthoimagery
Content Standard for Remote Sensing Swath Data
Utilities Data Content Standard
Standard for a U.S. National Grid
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata
Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization
Geographic Information Framework Data
Wetlands Mapping
U.S. Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data
Federal Trails Data
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification

 

  Federal Information Processing Standards

 

FGDC Standards Under Development

Name of Standard
Earth Cover Classification Standard
Geologic Data Model
Shoreline Data Content
Content Standards for Framework Land Elevation Data
Cultural Resources Geospatial Data Content Standard
Federal Buildings and Facilities Geospatial Data Content
Maintenance and Review of the National Wetland Classification


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