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GIS professionals help people in organizations big and small make better decisions, reduce costs, work more effectively, communicate better, and gain key insights. The final chapter in <em>The ArcGIS Book<\/em> seeks to inspire GIS professionals to be active participants and improve the quality, accuracy, and efficiency of the work being done in their domain.<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide GIS community is extending the reach of this technology, and it all starts with the work you do on your professional GIS desktop. You compile and manage geographic data, work with advanced maps, perform spatial analysis, and conduct GIS projects. 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So there\u2019s this global collection of information that\u2019s been assembled and continues to be kept current and further built out by the GIS user community,\u201d says Clint Brown, Esri Director of Software Products and the thought leader in this chapter. \u201cAll of us need access to other people\u2019s data to do our jobs and to do them well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GIS was actually about open data long before the term became fashionable, because GIS practitioners were always looking for ways to deepen and broaden their own GIS data holdings. No single agency, team, or individual user could possibly hope to compile all the themes and geographic extents of data required, so people networked to get what they needed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to encouraging networking and information sharing, this chapter puts out the call for GIS professionals to engage with their local communities. 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