Traditionally, municipal GIS development has been a departmental undertaking with
little coordination between departments. In the last few years,
improvements in technology such as cheaper memory and software that read multiple
formats, have made it much more feasible to approach GIS on an enterprise-wide
basis. Most city departments use data from other departments, or would if they
had access to it. The biggest barrier is that most departments, especially in
larger cities have functioned as basically independent entities with very little
cooperation across departmental lines. How do you go about developing an
enterprise-wide GIS? How do you bring all the players on board? What do you do
with existing, incompatible systems? These, and many other questions are what the
City of Cleveland, Ohio faced when the Public Utilities Department decided that
the development of the Water GIS should be coordinated with other city
departments. The project, after many years, is still not complete, but this paper
discusses the steps that have been taken to date. Includes appendices.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| Number of Pages : | 15 |
| Published : | 01/01/1999 |
