Building a Geographic Information System Community by Sharing Data

By Janet Jackson and Paula Gee Davis

This guide contains tips for turning your GIS community into one that has a successful and rewarding process for sharing local data. Collaboration enhances GIS programs and conserves time and resources at multiple levels. Practical examples demonstrate that individual and collective productivity increase through the sharing of ideas, methods, and most importantly, data.  Methods are explained to find available local data, to search for data through the web, and to use data from long range planning studies. The book also offers ideas about updating and storing shared data. Data sharing creates opportunities for sound decision making and for planning community services across multiple organizations and jurisdictions.

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