RPO Models: South Dakota

The regional development organizations (known locally as councils of government) in South Dakota are not directly engaged in the state’s rural consultation efforts with local governments. However, four of the regional groups are under contract with the state DOT to perform road data inventories.

This includes collecting road centerline locations, point locations representing a variety of rural and urban points of cultural significance and database information for the 66 counties of South Dakota. These entities also perform map and database edits to the global positioning system (GPS) data, which must be approved by the state.

For more information, see:

Success with GPS at SDDOT (PDF)
Roger A. Brees, Professional Surveyor Magazine, August 2006

State of South Dakota Department of Transportation Non-State Trunk Road Inventory (PDF)
Presentation by Harry Redman, Planning and Development District III, Yankton, SD at the 2006 National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference



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