Abstract

GIS Collaboration and Cooperation in the State of Nevada
Track: State and Local Government
Authors: Eric Schmidt

The state of Nevada benefits from a thriving GIS community. The assortment of professional GIS practitioners is diverse and growing all the time. The Nevada Geographic Information Society (NGIS) serves as the state’s professional society for GIS practitioners and has been evolving into a successful vehicle for fostering and encouraging regional and even state-wide cooperative efforts.

This presentation will outline and highlight several examples of successful regional and statewide collaboration and cooperation within the state of Nevada. There is an ever-growing list of successful projects and initiatives that are fostering an explosion of best practices in GIS cooperation. These best practices include the collaborative use of Map Services, Web Services, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE Replication, etc.

Examples of specific projects that would be highlighted in this talk are:
- Statewide collaboration of local GIS offices to provide support to the Secretary of State’s new business portal…
- Statewide Emergency Management GIS Coalition…
- Successful consolidation of county-level GIS services…
- A statewide inventory and business plans for parcels and LiDAR datasets in Nevada…
- And more…