- Washington, DC. Local implementations of the FGDC's USNG
standard in the District of Columbia include the District's GIS web
site, DC Department of Transportation's 2007 street map, DC Water
Department's use of USNG naming conventions for it's features, and a
number of other planned venues. For example, a visitor to
Washington, DC can use the USNG as a universal map index value.
The visitor can look up any DC street address at the Master Address Repository
that will return a number of attributes to include the USNG
value. With this USNG coordinate the visitor can look up the
location on the
2007 Washington, DC street map (4Mb) distributed by the DC
Department of Transportation (DDoT) or this demonstration
street atlas. This street map depicts a full USNG grid (for
additional information or copies of this map please contact www.ddot.dc.gov or (202)
673-6813). With the USNG coordinate obtained from the DC Master
Address Respository the visitor could also use it directly with a very
low cost GPS receiver to guide him or her to the location. This
can be especially beneficial on dark and stormy nights, for locating
particularly small and obscure points of interest or for simply
communicating an addresses location in an unambiguous and map friendly
form. During time of disaster response these enhanced routine
capabilities add life saving capabilities for the emergency response
community.
- The State of
Florida. Lessons learned
from recent hurricane seasons has taught Florida that standardized
grid maps for search and rescue and other activities are a
necessity. To this end the State Fire Marshal, as the
coordinating agency for search and rescue under the State Comprehensive
Emergency Management Plan, and the Division of Emergency Management
have embarked on a
program to implement the US National Grid as Florida'a grid
standard for geospatial and mapping support to both emergency and other
operations. Example maps under this implementation include a
Miami-Dade County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Office image
map prepared for the 2007 Superbowl, and a page from a Monroe
County, FL experimental street atlas. The USGS
SAINT LUCIE INLET, FL 1:24,000-scale topographic quadrangle
provides another example. Support for the USNG has been added to
Florida's Incident
Mapper. Hillsborough County, Fl has prepared a road
atlas of the county at various scales based on the USNG.
- Delta State USNG Pilot Project. This site provides access to USNG data layers as shapefiles. Use the hyperlink tool to select and download the desired area. Please check back from time to time as new layers will be added when our volunteer time permits.
- Pasquotank
County, North Carolina. Having been in the path of several
hurricanes over the past couple of years, Pasquotank County initially
was interested in National Grid as a common language to aid in
emergency operations but has now incorporated National Grid coordinates
into several different areas including tax and a printable road atlas
while maintaining their data in State Plane.
- Ohio. Efforts are underway in Ohio to
implement the USNG standard in a number of venues. Delaware and
Lake Counties have supported
initial implementation efforts by providing USNG coordinates through
their GIS-based public information portals. A USNG grid layer is also
provided that can be overlaid on the local mapping.
