The goal of the MSDIS is to encourage
use of GIS technology and geographic data resources in state government
by providing practical support in the form of GIS-related services to
current and potential user agencies. This can be expressed in the following
manner:
- to establish and make available to the GIS community in state and
local government a core database of geographic information to be held
and maintained in common as a continuing asset within an archive mechanism;
- to encourage development, maintenance, and dissemination of thematic
databases built on the core database foundation;
- to encourage use of GIS technology and geographic data resources
in state government by providing practical support in the form of
GIS-related services to current and potential user agencies, and
- to inform supervisors, managers, and other professionals in user
agencies and state government at large about GIS technology, and its
potential and capabilities in state government
Tasks
To achieve these goals, the following tasks
are projected:
- Develop and maintain a GIS database directory as a guide for GIS
users throughout state government and beyond to the databases held
by state agencies.
- Provide GIS development consultation and operational training.
The MSDIS will make available, as an ongoing service, technical advice
on GIS design, hardware and software selection and procurement procedures,
database development, and GIS operation and applications.
- Define database standards which will guide all members of the Missouri
GIS community in database building and sharing. Standards will address
such fundamentals as spatial accuracy and precision, currency and
data maintenance, source documentation, database logic, and attribute
coding. These standards will meet or exceed established Federal standards
for the same.
- Provide limited GIS services. The staff and facilities of the MSDIS
will perform limited GIS services (such as custom map plotting or
report generation) for users who have limited needs and no other access
to the technology. Through such services, the MSDIS will extend familiarity
with GIS technology and encourage wider use of the state GIS resources.
- Create a WWW page for the service through which access to these
data can be obtained and shared including the physical exchange of
hard copy graphics or data tapes and disks.
- Conduct annual applications conferences / workshops. The MSDIS
will host workshops to provide information on, and demonstration of,
GIS applications within the Missouri GIS community. These conferences
will also provide the participants with the current status and trends
of this type of information within the nation and state.
- The MSDIS will quarterly disseminate, to state agencies and other
parties, a newsletter covering both policy and operational subjects
of particular interest to the GIS community.
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