Defense installations are faced with a myriad of data types and formats. Innovative techniques have to be developed to process this data with limited software in some cases. Through trial and error, ArcView GIS has been found to accomplish many tasks that used to be the sole realm of ArcInfo. This paper will present several techniques for various data processing issues that regularly come up at Navy and Marine Corps bases with beginning to intermediate GIS systems in place. The techniques will be focused on the use of ArcView GIS and Avenue to accomplish the processing of scattered data into the GIS.