[ORMAP-Tech] School District Update Process

[Anderson, Dean]

 Statewide School District Boundary Review

This is an opportunity to review the state school district layer and provide
important boundary information to the US Census.

Arron Heriford at DHS recently completed a state-wide school district
layer.  In addition, he has developed school attendance boundaries and
school locations. This is a great data layer that can be used to support
many local GIS applications.

Arron would like county organizations to provide feedback on the accuracy of
this layer. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Fixing this layer is
also very important as we have an opportunity to provide feedback to the US
Census Bureau.   We only have a few opportunities to influence census
data--and it has such enormous impacts.  Improving census blocks to more
accurately reflect local information is critical to accurately reflecting
the new legislative and congressional boundaries needed by the Secretary of
States Office for OCVR.

SO THIS IS IMPORTANT!  Please follow the steps below.

Thanks for your time an sorry for any multiple postings.

Dean Anderson
IT Director
Polk County

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The process for giving feedback to Arron is:

Step 1: Download the GeoDatabase from GEO
( http://navigator.state.or.us/sdl/data/mdb/k24/OREGON_2010_2011_SCHOOLS.zip
)

If you do not want to download it you could also access it as a service.
(
http://navigator.state.or.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Projects/ODE_DistrictMap/MapServer
)


Step 2: Review the combined district layer and compare to yours

Step3: If your “official  version” is different (better/more accurate) then
the state version,  just send your shapefile to Arron (with a projection
file). In addition, please provide Aaron with any legal descriptions for the
school district (if you have them) or any other justification as to why your
boundary is better.  If you can not "send" shapefiles then please do the
followng:
--> a. zip the shape file for your county
--> b. copy it to the Polk Co FTP general site -
ftp://ftp.co.polk.or.us/SchoolDistricts/ (login: general   password:
general)

Step4: Aaron will review your suggestions and make changes as appropriate.
He will let you know if he accepts changes and if not provide you with some
explanation.

Step5: Dean, Andrea, Arron, and Amy will work with census and GEO to
communicate these changes. Amy has already started the conversation with
Census (Thanks Amy!)
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