Does FPA intend to impose a standard whereby all location coordinates must be stored in WFMI (wildland fire management information) as decimal degrees/NAD83?
No. How data are stored is not within the scope of the FPA mission. FPA Will be strictly a consumer of data, and has not intention of being involved in the management of agencies’ systems of record. Decimal degrees is the most appropriate coordinated system for data input, use, and analysis because FPA will be conducting both local and national analyses. FPA is working with geospatial data in the NAD83 datum because it is the federal government standard datum. FPA intends to extract fire occurrence data from FAMWEB. what this means to FPA partner agencies is that they will be responsible for ensuring that an extract from their system of record will be available in FAMWEB to provide data for the time period to be used in the current analysis by an announced date. TOP Does FPA still intend to develop a conversion utility that, upon receiving a data string with coordinates (in DD – won’t be a problem) and a field specifying datum, will convert those coordinates to NAD83 (if not already in
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