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Paper
The Economic Benefits of GIS: A County's Perspective
Track: Benefit of GIS
Author(s): John Halbert

Since 1996 the Jefferson County, Alabama, GIS Division of the Department of Information Technology has been tracking the benefits of using GIS. The approach uses a fiscal based system that can be accounted for, measured and presented in a manner that can be examined critically. We now have more than 10 years of data that shows a pattern of growth that is projected to continue. This paper will describe the methods involved in measuring what many may consider intangibles. It will also describe issues that may make it more difficult to measure economic benefits as time and technology changes.

John Halbert
Jefferson County
Information Technologies
716 Richard Arrington JR. Blvd. N
Birmingham , AL 35203
US
Phone: 205-368-5791
E-mail: halbertj@jccal.org