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New membership selected for the Colorado Geospatial Information Advisory Council.

"Nearly every public sector business activity and decision has a location or spatial aspect."(National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO), 2008)

Colorado has invested considerable resources in systems for managing, analyzing and displaying geospatial information (i.e., geographic information systems or GIS), and Colorado has some exemplary GIS activities among its state agencies and local governments. We will periodically highlight novel GIS activities at this site. (Click on the link at the left to see the currently featured effort.)

2009 NAIP County Compressed Mosaics in Mr.SID format available on USGS NSDI Liaison library site. Thanks to the Colorado USGS liaison, Mark Eaton for hosting this data.

Colorado State University launches web resource of GIS programs in higher education.

Make sure your activity is included in the Annual Report to the State CIO by the Geospatial Information Advisory Council. Get information on the report and the form to submit your work to the Council here.

State geospatial data governance. As part of a consolidated approach to GIS and mandated for the Geospatial Advisory Council by the State CIO, state GIS personnel are developing a geospatial data governance plan. The group has developed a detaile inventory of geospatial data created and used by state agencies. This inventory will be posted here shortly. Get more information about the GIS data governance effort. This effort will be integrated with the Government Data Advisory Board to provide enterprise-wide governance to geospatial data assets.

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"Given Geospatial resources are so important, and touch so many areas of government that they must be managed as an enterprise resource within the greater scope of enterprise architecture." NASCIO, 2008.

Enterprise-wide management of geospatial information resources is critical to realize their full potential. Senate Bill 08-155 codified the importance of GIS. It charged OIT with duties and responsibilities related to statewide GIS coordination and requires a plan for statewide GIS to be presented to the Governor and the Legislature by July 2010. GIS was the only IT application area explicitly called out by the bill.

Please return to this site frequently to see new developments in statewide GIS coordination.

What are GIS and why are they important?
Statewide GIS Plan to be presented to the Legislature and Governor mandated by SB 08-155.
GIS Coordination
GIS Resources -- links to data and state, local and federal GIS pages
Presentations and coordination related documents

For more information please contact:

Jon Gottsegen

State GIS Coordinator

Governor's Office of Information Technology

jon.gottsegen@state.co.us