Issues/Questions from the MIP Studies Workflow Open Conference Call March 17, 2011 

Below are questions and answers that were discussed on the Studies Workflow Open 
Conference Call on March 17, 2011. 

 

As a reminder, MIP Help can be reached via e-mail at miphelp@riskmapcds.com or telephone 
at 1-877-FEMA-MAP. 

 

Issue/Questions 

Answers 

On the next MIP conference call, I’d like 
to hear a discussion regarding 
submission of PMRs as it relates to the 
autoQC routines and metadata. Our 
workflow to do PMRs is to download the 
countywide RFHL data then modify the 
areas where our PMR is. When we 
submit to the MIP we find the autoQC 
routines find errors outside our PMR 
panels. These errors include metadata 
references and polygon errors. These 
errors were apparently introduced when 
LOMRs were added after the countywide 
was complete. Should we expect to have 
a manual pass from now on for counties 
that interim LOMR work incorporated? 

FEMA is currently working on a procedure 
memorandum that addresses how PMRs should 
be performed in the future. CDS suggested the 
best option would be for mapping partners to only 
submit the data that they have revised during the 
course of the update because eventually that 
data would get incorporated into the NFHL and it 
would remove the need for mapping 
partners/FEMA/MIP Help to deal with all of the 
other issues that are flagged by DVT. The 
decision appears to be leaning that direction. A 
point was raised that there may be some 
ramifications to keeping the FIS texts up to date 
though, but the proposed solution was to have 
the entire FIS text(s) for the community updated. 

 

Until a definitive decision is made, please 
continue to request a bypass and a decision will 
be made on a case by case basis. You can 
escalate questions and issues like these through 
your auto QC coordinator. 

 

Now that tasks must be submitted in the 
HUC-8 folder format, MIP can’t find the 
metadata in the “General” folder now that 
that folder is one folder deeper than it was 
previously. Will the MIP be updated to 
search for the metadata in the new HUC-
8 folder format? 

 

In the meantime, is there guidance on 
what folder the metadata should be 
uploaded to so that it may be validated? 

No updates to the MIP will be made until after the 
data center migration has been completed. An 
update to search for the metadata in the HUC-8 
folder format can be added to the list of change 
requests we have been collecting for future 
enhancements. 

 

In the meantime, metadata should be uploaded 
either to the 7 digit tasksysid folder or the general 
folder with the 7 digit tasksysid folder. Those are 
the 2 locations the MIP will look for the metadata 
file.