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County Name |
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Does your county have GIS capability? Yes Planned Being Investigated No
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Approximate year county GIS activities started in some capacity: |
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Name of main county department that is coordinating or is central to county GIS activities (if any): |
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In your opinion, is GIS development in your county coordinated by one department or are there multiple initiatives among various departments:
Coordinated Multiple Initiatives
In your county, are there townships, cities and/or villages with independent GIS Capacity? If so, please list the township, city, and/or village name and include if they are a GIS data "user", "producer", or "both".
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| COUNTY GIS INVESTMENTS |
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Approximate number of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions with primary duties to coordinate, develop and maintain your county GIS: |
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For the FTEs totaled in Question #6, what is the ratio of positions between GIS Management / GIS Data Creation/ GIS Applications Development? For example (1 FTE) 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 or (4 FTEs) 1 / 1 / 2. |
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Please list the "Position Titles" of your full-time GIS positions:
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Approximate number of combined FTE positions devoting a portion of their time to the development and maintenance of your county GIS among other duties in other departments (sum portion of time devoted to GIS): |
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Approximate annual county expenditures on GIS personnel tallied in question #6: |
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| Base GIS operations such as software licenses, travel, supplies (exclude irregular expenditures such as new aerials, new plotter, etc.): |
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| GIS expenses for Contractor/Private Sector developed data, tools, web pages and applications: |
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Have you ever conducted a cost/benefit analysis to evaluate your GIS program? Yes Planned No
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Provide a rough estimate of the number of county business processes that GIS support? Examples include parcel/cadastral mapping, 911 call dispatching/mapping, plat book creation 4H, drain assessments, etc.: |
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In broad numbers, what do you estimate is the total value of your current GIS data including aerials that are not available from any other source? Specify an approximate amount that you think you would have to pay an average private sector vendor to create all of your current data from scratch (exclude data you have acquired from other government sources or acquired for free): |
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Does your county currently have a GIS data fee schedule adopted under the "Enhanced Access to Public Records Act" (PA 462, 1996)
Yes No I do not know |
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Is your GIS data publicly viewable data via the Internet/county Web site? Yes No
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Is your GIS data available for download via the internet? Yes, free Yes, for payment only No
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Is your GIS data available to the public? Yes, free Yes, for payment only No |
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Do you use Metadata? Yes No I do not know what metadata is
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How much base GIS related revenue did you anticipate/budget for in 2008. Include fees charged under an enhanced access policy or fees collected for map printing, digital data, labor, analysis, etc. (do not include extraordinary revenue from one-time grants, unanticipated large digital data purchase, etc.): |
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| SYSTEM INFORMATION & GEODETICS |
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What is your primary database software?
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What is your primary computer operating system?
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What is your primary GIS/Mapping software suite?
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List any other GIS/CAD related software that you use on a regular basis: |
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Are you familiar with "Open Geospatial Consortium"? Yes No
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What is the approximate amount that you spend annually on GIS related software (include annual maintenance fees and pro-rated upgrades of any software for which you do not pay annual maintenance): |
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Do you have "in-house" GPS data collection capacity? Yes No
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| GIS PROGRAM SCOPE |
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As the key GIS coordinator for your county, indicate as best as you can how many GIS related interactions your department has with the other county departments listed below on an annual basis (Mark an "X" in the appropriate column). An interaction is considered a GIS related phone call, a performed GIS analysis, the production of a map, retrieving information from your GIS, editing/maintaining data for that department, meeting to discuss GIS related matters, etc. If your county doesn't have one of the departments listed, check "N/A".
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Do any of these departments have their own GIS capacity in order to interact with your county's GIS data? As best you can, list the approximate number of PC's within each department that fall in each of the following categories:
- PC's used to browse your GIS data through standalone software
- PC's used to run your custom GIS applications through standalone software
- PC's used to edit your GIS data through standalone software
- PC's used to browse your GIS data via the internet
- PC's used to run custom applications via the internet
Please list only the number of PCs you believe are actually used to interact with your GIS data, not all those that could be used but are not. If you are licensed with a certain number of seats or concurrent licenses, distribute the total number available among the departments as it was planned during licensing or how you perceive that they are used now.
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Interaction with local units of government:
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What GIS layers do you currently have, where did they come from and who currently maintains them? Put an X in all columns that apply under Source and Maintenance in cases where a layer has been developed or maintained by multiple partners. Include all layers that you have even if they are incomplete. Question #41 will address data quality and frequency of use.
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