GIS Technical Committee
Goals
- Keep the agencies and public of North Dakota informed with respect to GIS activities, technologies, projects, standards, and data.
- Meet on a regular schedule, at least once per month.
- Meet on a regular schedule with the associate members, at least once per year.
- Enhance the likelihood of federal support for mapping and data acquisition in the state through SMAC and its own efforts.
- Prioritize and direct the spending of the available GIS budget.
- Promote partnerships and collaboration with other levels of government statewide, utilization of other resources - as part of a Strategic GIS strategy.
- Look for GIS cost saving opportunities by coordination of software and hardware purchase, data acquisition, training, and support; identifying what other State agencies are doing with GIS, to help eliminate redundancies.
- Promote the use of GIS to enhance the utilization of existing data.
- Put North Dakota in the forefront of national use of GIS tools, technologies, and geospatial data warehousing.
