The Many Interactive Maps of WVGES West Virginia

The Many Interactive Maps of WVGES West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Presented by: John M. Bocan

Some History The Coal Bed Mapping Project spearheaded the need for our own in-house web services. PTTC regional oil and gas through NRCCE at WVU and created by the WVU Tech Center and is still used today. Arc. View IMS 2. x on two SGI IRIX boxes of which one housed the web portion. Eventually it went to Arc. IMS 3. 1 Dell Precision 340 machine with 1 GB RAM and an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1. 90 GHz with Windows 2000 All were shapefile based and using HTML image server. Arc. SDE was implemented and fully operational in 2005. Coal data now pulled from an Oracle database.

Why no Arc. GIS Server yet? • Many Arc. IMS services • Most Arc. IMS services tied into Arc. SDE/Oracle • Concerns for custom, in-house applications • Staff busy with other projects • Financial and budgetary concerns • Concerns with earlier version of Arc. GIS Server

Current Discussions and Possible Plans • With the addition of some new Federally sponsored projects—hardware and software upgrades. • New project requirements for WMS services, ability to have mash-ups, etc. • Concerns for serving the public with better means • More people accustomed to Google Maps • “Slippy map” vs “refresh” • More templates and possibilities with the Javascript and FLEX APIs. • Some work already in progress on an Arc. GIS Server development machine. • Need to fully develop and implement a “battle plan” among all sections of the Survey.

Current Setup • Dell Server, Windows 2003 Server with Arc. SDE and Arc. IMS 9. 3. 1 • We have 93 total IMS services running: • 76 individual coal beds • 2 coal “conglomerate” services (e. g. , All Coal, Pocahontas Formation) • 4 oil and gas services (past few years) • 1 topographic index • 5 “service” maps (i. e. , overview maps) • 5 testing or prototypes • Of the 93: • 3 incorporate data and mapping from other states (PTTC, TBR, ATG) • 8 are Arc. Map Image Services (obviously the first candidates for transition)

CBMP: Kanawha Formation Coals (Example) Via http: //www. wvgs. wvnet. edu/www/coal/cbmp/coalims. html

CBMP: Pittsburgh Coal http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/PGH

CBMP: Data Layers • elevation control points, • thickness control points • structural contours, • geological discontinuities, • mining extents unknown • coal map boundaries • underground mined coal • mined and remaining coal areas, • total bed thickness, • net coal thickness, • percent parting, • county lines, • 7. 5 -minute quadrangle outlines, • mosaic of the USGS 7. 5 -minute topographic maps.

Pocahontas Formation Coals http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/Fm_Pocahontas

All Mining http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/All_Coal

All Mining http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/All_Coal • Underground Mining • Surface Mining • Augering • Highwall Mining • Mosaic of 2003 SAMB orthophotos • Reference Layers • Cities and Towns • Highways • Major Rivers and Lakes

West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Wells http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/WVOG

West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Wells http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/WVOG • Well type “groupings” (at smaller scale) • Access to over 145, 000 oil and gas wells (at larger scale) • Gas • Oil and Gas (combined) • Dry • Service • Others (including permits) • Ties into our interactive database “pipeline-plus” • Over 190, 000 views, 2 nd half of 2009

Geology of the Marcellus Shale http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/MAR

Appalachian Tight Sands Gas Project http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/ATG

West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Wells http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/WVOG

Regional Geology of the Trenton-Black River Formations http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/TBR_ver 3

Selected Appalachian Region Oil and Gas Wells http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/PTTC

Topographic Map Index http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu/Topo

Geologic Map (ala 1968) – Prototype, “Phase 1” - - Prototype - -

ARRA: Broadband Mapping Project Result of “Phase 1” for the April 30, 2010 deliverable.

ARRA: National Geothermal Data System Project Further info: http: //www. geothermaldata. org/ ? “The NGDS is a distributed network of databases that are collectively building a system for acquisition, management and maintenance of geothermal and related data. ” - From NGDS.

Interactive Map Portal http: //ims. wvgs. wvnet. edu John M. Bocan Email: bocan@geosrv. wvnet. edu