You will find abundant evidence of the important contributions that GIS technology can make toward improving our quality of life and supporting more analytical decision making. Learn how digital geography impacts our society.
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Case Studies for Government
The following is just a sampling of the recent articles and case studies.
GIS Comes to the Rescue
In the days following Katrina, GIS experts in Mississippi helped build search maps for first responders and created and updated maps on various issues such as electrical power restoration. FCW.com, October 3, 2005—by Dibya Sarkar
GIS Aids the Coast Guard
The Coast Guard used GIS technology to translate more than 100 street addresses into degrees, minutes, and seconds required for helicopter and land-base rescues. FCW.com, October 3, 2005—by Dibya Sarkar
Protecting Agriculture
The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) is developing an enterprise GIS strategy to better use state agricultural data to coordinate a response to an agroterrorism attack. Government Technology, September 2005—by Jennifer Stong
IT Helps States Brace For Storms Government agencies are using data to understand the nature of tropical storms and better prepare people to cope with them. SOA Pipeline, August 29, 2005—by Larry Greenemeier
GIS Goes Enterprise
Paulding County, Georgia's IT Department rallied five county departments—Public Works, Transportation, Tax Assessor, Community Development and Public Safety—to conceptualize and build an enterprise GIS in an ESRI-based ArcSDE 9.0 environment along with Microsoft SQL Server. GovernmentTech.com, July 2005—by Will Lyons
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