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2019 GIS-T State SurveyKissimmee, Florida, April 24, 2019

Purpose of Survey

• Input for future GIS-T Symposium activities• Roundtable• Workshops• Survey questions

• GIS-T research topics

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Status of State DOTs in different areas

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GIS-T 2019 AASHTO GIS-T State Survey

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1. Organization You Are Representing

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2. Contact Information: Title

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3. Please describe your most recent GIS related projects, and/or applications

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4. Please describe up to four GIS related projects, applications, and/or issues that are of interest to your organization.

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5. What research is needed in geospatial data and technologies for transportation?

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• Big Data Integration• Improving asset data collection• How to help and handle the evolution of Autonomous Vehicles• ArcGISPro• cell phone big data / crowd sourcing - what can we stop collecting ourselves? • Cross-mode comparison of transportation costs (distance with

tonnage/volume/ridership) Integration of NHD Flowlines and road/rail LRS data

• Add LRS capabilities to AGOL/WAB• We need to develop a way to participate with autonomous and semi-

autonomous vehicles (or contribute background data).• Management of Big Data • Leveraging Open Source data for Inventory purposes in a DOT• Automated Feature Extraction, Autonomous Vehicle Data for Traffic

Management and Improved Performance• Leveraging emerging technologies, machine learning, RFID technology, lidar

data extraction, autonomous vehicle exhaust• "Big Data" - Applied Artificial Intelligence and machine learning for traffic

system management• Managing Intersections and MIRE• Eliminate redundant transportation network data across all levels of gov

(local, county, state, national)• Statewide traffic data plan best practices

• What is the next generation LRS in order to stay relevant to a spatial / GIS/ GPS mobile world?â€¯â€¯ Is it BIM (building information modeling, or CIM for roadways) or is there something in between?â€¯

• 0Computer Vision/Learning - asset location automation• How states interact with local transportation agencies to exchange and

collaboratively maintain GIS data.• What is needed to be instructed at higher education facilities in order to prepare

students to work with transportation data, methodologies, and current visualization practices

• Live data feeds• How replacing NAVD88 and NAD83 with a new 2022 Datum will affect systems and

processes. • Temporality, UAVs, LiDAR use cases• Road safety innovations related to pedestrians• more open data standards that can support a big data environment with multiple

sources of data and types of data coming in real time• 3D Transportation GIS• NA• Applications of AI• Integration patterns for LRS (case studies on tech and business), autonomous vehicles

and data sharing• Closer intergration of Construction into GIS• CAV - Connected Autonomous Vehicles

6. Would your agency be interested in hosting a GIS-T Symposium within the next few years?

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Yes29%

No32%

Not Sure39%

AlabamaFloridaHawaiiLouisianaMinnesotaMontanaOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoTexasWest Virginia

7. Roundtable Suggestions

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8. Future GIS-T Workshop Suggestions

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• UAS integration into Transportation GIS.• ArcGIS Mobile Apps, • Data Governance,• GIS Project management. • feature extraction tool & techniques (from mobile/drone LIDAR or imagery) -

creating geometrics data that meets reporting requirements from these sources

• US National Data Standards to facilitate the compilation weight and height limits along linear networks.

• Integration of NHD Flowlines and LRS road/rail data • NG911 and DOT LRS integration • GIS for the DOT project lifecycle from needs list to STIP to project phases to

closeout to maintenance• Intersection Inventory topics• routable roadway networks• passive traffic data collection• autonomous vehicles• LRS Development – ESRI Roads and Highways• Drones for Inspection and Profile Mapping• OEM – Preparedness and Disaster Recovery• HPMS• Safety Data• Data Visualization and Analytics• Emerging Technologies• Artificial intelligence

• asset management• federal and state transportation performance measures• Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Governance. Nice words, what does all this

mean, how is it done, where does it get done...• Leveraging your LRS via a services-based architecture: field operations, data

integration• Merging transport data with land use or health data • Workshop on calculating ROI, cost benefit, evaluating quality improvements, staff

efficiencies, project level savings rollup • Field data capture for multiple assets at a single time• Data discoverability. • Mobile data collection.• MIRE FDE requirements• LiDAR 101 - Classification, Break Lines, Applications• Mapping crash data for predictive analysis• HD Maps to support ADS such as to OpenDrive specs• ArcGIS Pro• HPMS, System Integration, R&H• LiDAR collection and maintenance• High Spatial Accuracy Asset Collection Strategy • GIS in Construction • Roads and Highways• Aeronautics • Cross-jurisdictional edge-matching• LRS conversion to routable network• Feedback loop: communicating data quality problems/changes to public• How to get management support for GIS

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9. How is GIS deployed in your agency?

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0 5 10 15 20 25

We have no GIS function in our agency

We have a single unit responsible for all agency GIS functions, applications, andservices

We have more than one unit responsible for GIS functions, applications, andservices, and multiple end users in various program offices with NO coordination

We have more than one unit responsible for GIS functions, applications, andservices, and multiple end users in various program offices with SOME

coordination

We have integrated most agency databases through an Enterprise GIS, and havedeveloped GIS applications throughout the agency

Other (please specify)

Number of responses

10. Has your agency…

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Completed a Data Governance Plan?

Formed a GIS coordinating group?

Done a Return on Investment Study on a GISapplication/effort?

Done a Benefit/Cost Analysis on a GIS application/effot?

Assessed itself with a GIS Capability Maturity Model?

Number of Responses

Not Sure No Yes

11. Over the past year, where has your agency benefited the most from geo-spatial technology?

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

CAD/GIS integration

Corridor and/or system planning

Asset management

Enterprise data integration

Public information web portals

Location based services


Number of Responses

12. Over the past year, where has geo-spatial technology proved most costly and difficult to implement?

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0 5 10 15 20 25

CAD/GIS integration


Asset management





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13. Where do you see geo-spatial technology adding the most value to your agency in the future?

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

CAD/GIS integration


Asset management





Number of Responses

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

CAD/GIS integration


Asset management





Over the past year, where has your agency benefited the most from geo-spatial technology? Please check no more than two.

Over the past year, where has geo-spatial technology proved most costly and difficult to implement? Please check no morethan two.

Where do you see geo-spatial technology adding the most value to your agency in the future? Please check no more than two.

Emphasis Areas

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Data2019 AASHTO GIS-T State Survey

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14. What is your agency's status regarding GIS data and services consolidation?

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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

Our agency consolidated GIS data across all/some offices

Our agency consolidated GIS services across all/some offices

Our agency consolidated both GIS data and services acrossall/some offices

We are in the process of consolidating

We have considered consolidating but have not moveforward with it at the moment


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15. If your agency has consolidated GIS data, services or both, what was/were the primary reason(s) for this?

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• To provide our customers with accurate timely and access to authoritative data.• Different transportations offices involved.• GIS data and hardware/software resources are largely consolidated to provide

efficient administrative support and promote sharing and collaboration• Save time/money• Standardization, ease of reporting• Enterprise application requirements.• Reduce data redundancy, provide consistent workflows, build an Enterprise

approach to GIS• Efficiency, awareness• One source of authoritative data• Administration and efficiency • Providing the most current authoritative, validated data throughout the Dept.

using GIS mapping, GIS analysis, BO reports and BI dashboards. • Improved analytics, master datasets, coordination of effort and reduction of

redundancy• To provide a single point of access across agency users• One source of record, attempt to eliminate data silos.• Since the departments GIS Data and Services reside in the IT Bureau, a shared

services model has been developed to provide GIS Service offerings to the department. The business areas have unique GIS skill sets specific to business process and applications

• IT consolidation for the sake of consolidation• Source of truth, common message internally and externally.

• Working towards a service based architecture of services that publish authoritative data from a geospatial data warehouse.

• We're considering it for the coordination and communication benefits• Better management of GIS data and services• Consistency and data governance• Prevent duplication of data, remove silos, make data more accessible• It has been the business model for 30 years. Remote users are supported

from the centralized office.• Data integration • Sharing technology, data and expertise• To have a central location where data could accessed and relied on as the

"single source of truth".• Reduce duplication, increase data integrity• Enterprise GIS development• Enterprise approach to managing/integrating data• Efficiency & consistency of providing enterprise services where

applicable. • Uniform schema• Data Governance (Databases and AGO Services), License Management,

Standardize Training, Management of State LRS, • Authoritative source• Access to information from various software and systems• Create a single-source to manage and ensure security, performance and

availability.

16. If your agency has not consolidated GIS data, services or both, what is/are the primary reason(s) for this?

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• We have a collaborative culture with sharing agreements between entities, distributed databases, and applications.• GIS services (people) continue to be distributed due to funding structures• The only reason we have not integrated some data or services is access. We have two systems that operate out of our

control, both are external to our department (firewall restrictions and one is cloud based with limited access).• Lack of reliable IT infrastructure and resources • We're looking into doing it, current job titles and work functions are considerations that need to be addressed, resources

are at a premium• In process of information gathering.• Lack of Data Governance and Data Standardization• silos• Keeping services closer to the business side. • Access to information from various software and systems• Some 'power users' are allowed to publish and manage their own content in ArcGIS Online. IT recognized this and did not

want to become an unnecessary bottleneck. This is done on a case-by-case basis, and only when we have developed a level of trust with them.

• Lack of leadership or understanding.

17. Is there an effort to consolidate GIS data, services, or both across all/some state government agencies?

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0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Just GIS data Just GIS services Both GIS data andservices

There is an effort toconsolidate ALL

InformationTechnology,including GIS

There is an effort toconsolidate ALL

InformationTechnology, EXCEPT

for GIS

No effort at thistime

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18. Please specify the level of roadway(s) maintained as part of your agency's digital road base map.

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A digital road base map is not maintained or used

by our agency, 0

Only U.S. and State highways (i.e. US and

State signed routes), 2

U.S., State, and county routes (i.e., U.S., State

and county signed routes), 3

All public routes (i.e., all signed routes plus

local streets), 35

19. Is the data distributed outside your agency?

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Yes, it is distributed free of charge (e.g., via the agencywebsite or state geo-data clearinghouse)

Yes, it is distributed free to other government agencies ordata partners for non-commercial purposes

Yes, it can be purchased (e.g., directly from the agency orfrom a state geo-data clearinghouse)

No, it is restricted to internal agency use only


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20. Does your agency have any formal data sharing agreements with any other public agencies or private data providers?

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Yes55%

No37%

Not Sure8%

21. Please specify, if any, those geo-spatial databases that are maintained by your agency and routinely shared with other state agencies or disseminated to the public.

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Databases are not routinely shared with others

Orthoimagery

Political Boundaries

Transportation Features

Water Features

Cadastral

Elevation Data

Geodetic Control


Number of Responses

22. What other sources do you routinely use to obtain geo-spatial data that you don't maintain yourself?

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Other state or local government agencies

Statewide geo-spatial data clearinghouse

Federal agency Web Sites

NSDI Geo-Spatial One Stop Web Portal

Data provided by commercial GIS software vendors

Data purchase from commercial sources


Number of Responses

23. Does the roadway transportation data include source data from local governments?

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Yes69%

No28%

Not Sure3%

24. Does your data include commercial data?

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Yes18%

No69%

Not Sure13%

25. Does your agency share a GIS road network with your State's E911 system? If not, do you plan to do so in the future?

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11

13

76

3

The GIS road network iscurrently shared, andused in E911 activities

The GIS road network iscurrently shared, but

not used in E911activities

Plans are underway toshare the GIS road

network for use in E911activities

The GIS road network isnot shared and there

are no current plans todo so

Not Sure

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26. What activities, if any, within your agency take advantage of commercial IT cloud-based GIS or geospatial services/technologies?

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• Web Mapping, hosted feature services, and mobile apps via AGOL.• We use ArcGIS Online for all interactive mapping. • We have a server specifically on GIS database.• We have a robust ArcGIS Online site used for mapping, story maps, geoforms, and mobile data collection• Data Collection using ArcGIS Online and iPad Collector App• ArcGIS Online• Planning, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Roadway Inventory.• Data collection, data hosting, self-directed map creation, statewide geocoder, web maps and applications.• Data sharing on ArcGIS Online• ArcGIS Online• ePermitting, Project Management Reporting System, AADT, Web SLD Applications, Railroad Management, ITS Asset Collection• Not sure• ESRI ArcGIS Online• We have had in the past an imagery hosting service with a commercial vendor, this contract expired and we have rebid the

service and expect to have the service up and running again by the end of the year, hopefully sooner. We do not currently have plans to use any commercial cloud based services for GIS or geospatial data.

• arcgis online• server hosting, ArcGIS Online, OSOW permitting, public GIS sites


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• We are evaluating the use of cloud storage for GIS. We are active users of some cloud coordinated services.• Mapillary, ArcGIS Online, AWLRS• Esri's AGO Cloud• Web GIS map publication, minimal data storage• Traveler Information Website• Maintenance, Geotechnical, Traffic Engineering, Safety, Strategic Development,• Arc GIS On-Line• We are looking at moving GIS to the cloud but are struggling with the latency issues. Do we move the our user's desktop to the

cloud? Or start moving to web services instead of database connection? Or? • Missouri Interactive Traveler Information Map• AGOL based applications• we are putting our asset data and the imagery on the cloud both in azure and aws• Traffic speed, traffic and bike travel data, AGOL • ESRI ArcGIS Online is used for asset data management and data sharing. • AGOL• Our Traffic Count system is cloud based• AGO, Portal• ArcGIS Online, BlackCat, Sims, Many SaaS projects recently


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• ArcGIS Online M1 & M2• The following teams utilize a cloud-hosted environment, provided by a vendor: Bridges (BrM) Transit (Cleverware)• ADOT planned to go to cloud based but it has not happened

27. Please describe any efforts to use geospatial technologies that take advantage of mobile devices?

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• Safe Patrol, • Hazardous Trees Inventory, • Railroad Crossing Survey and Inventory, • Mobile Utility assessment, • Pavement Assessment Survey, • GPS centerline collection, etc.• Asset collection with ArcGIS Online tools.• Collector for ArcGIS, • Survey 123 for road inventory, traffic collection and project

management, Environmental data collections, Maintenance and Outdoor advertising.

• Enterprise• All maintenance crews use a custom mobile GIS app to track

activities and assets. We have a few COTS mobile apps and interest in more.

• Data Collection using ArcGIS Online and iPad Collector App Navigation Asset identification

• Esri's Collector and Survey 123• Field data collection for guardrail end treatments.• Reporting of roadway issues by field workers that need

attention. Collection of ADA asset inventory.

• Asset data feature collection• Maintenance work orders and maps on windows tablets. S-123/Collector

on phones/tablets• Most of our Field Collection is done through Collector and Survey123• Asset management data collection, Drone Systems, ITS Device

Management, OEM Preparedness/Response/Recovery.• Asset inventory, damage assessment mobile application, daily work

reporting • Mobile applications for road condition ratings, drainage facility inspection

and maintenance, railroad crossing database, ADA inspection, guardrails, NPDES

• DOTD has multiple efforts on-going, several for environmental activities, on for highway inventory, one for road closures, and some for asset inventory is planned.

• iPads and esri collector/survey 123 - culverts, construction inspection, traffic ops, facilities inspection, storm waterâ€¯, short term traffic counts

• Collector App for inventory, Survey 123 for condition assessments• Mobile data management is widely used at INDOT.• NYSDOT is taking advantage of several Esri based mobile field data

collections applications for roadside inventory and inspection.

27. Please describe any efforts to use geospatial technologies that take advantage of mobile devices?

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• MAVRIC - a mobile browser based field data collection application in development, Mapillary - smart phones to capture ROW imagery

• Field data collection for various business needs (asset management, maintenance, environmental, planning)

• Billboard asset collection, • Culvert asset collection, • HPMS Sample Section verification, • Outfall mapping• Asset Maintenance/Inventory, • traffic engineering efforts, • damage assessments, etc.• Multiple tools implemented for mobile devices, • Stormwater Inspection, Maintenance Permitting, • AMMO• Guiderail information and condition collection • Culvert and outfall information collection and condition • Archaeological site surveys• Survey 123 and Collector• Mobile application available for Missouri Traveler Information Map

• Emergency data collection, • crowd sourcing • We use mobile devices for Collector and Survey 123 applications.• we've testing mobile alert and are currently implementing Intergraph's field

inspector into some of our workflows• ODOT Project Tracker, • TripCheck• ESRI Collector for ArcGIS based mobile solution is used on mobile devices for

field asset data collection. • ESRI suite of mobile apps. • We have over 500 ipads deployed to 800 field workers to perform asset

inventory/inspection using GIS technologies. • data collection efforts• Asset Collection Via Collector Apps, • Survey 123 Data Collections• Many ArcGIS Collector apps. MnDOT 511. • Field data collection and data dissemination • Our asset management system is Cityworks and we intend to utilize the mobile

app options available with that system or with our recently-acquired Geocortexplatform

Software2019 AASHTO GIS-T State Survey

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28. What GIS software products are used in your agency?

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Your GIS Staff

28. What GIS software products are used in your agency?

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Line of Business Users, i.e. “the rest of the agency”

29. Which relational database management system (RDBMS), if any, do you use to maintain geo-spatial data in your enterprise GIS?

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Oracle, 27

SQL Server, 30 Access, 6DB2, 1

Sybase, 1

30. Which, if any, spatial data management software do you use in your enterprise GIS?

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Arc SDE, 38

Oracle Spatial, 18

31. What software product(s) are used by your agency for web mapping applications?

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Human Resources2019 AASHTO GIS-T State Survey

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32. How large is your GIS staff? (e.g. 5 FTE) in the office in which you work?

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Number of Full-Time Employees

Number of Part-Time Employees

Number of On-site Contractors

Number of Off-site Contractors

Maximum 26 10 20 15

Average 11 1 2 1

Median 10 0 0 0

Minimum (>0) 2 1 1 1

33. Where in your agency is the GIS core staff primarily located?

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Planning, 26

Engineering, 4

Information Services, 20

Mapping/Surveying, 4

34. What are the principal technical backgrounds of your GIS core staff?

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Engineering/Surveying, 12Planning, 18

Geography/Cartography, 37Information Technology/Information

Systems/Computer Science, 23

Business/Public Administration, 3

GIS Professional Certification

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Yes, 27

No, 13

Not Sure, 2

Is anyone on the GIS core staff a Certified GIS professional?

Yes, 8

No, 18

Not Sure, 16

Will GIS Professional Certification be an important consideration in hiring future GIS core staff?

37. Does your agency have any of the following Civil Service job titles under which GIS professionals are hired?

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IT GIS titles, 16

GIS titles not tied to IT, 19

Cartography/mapping titles, 6

Geographer titles, 1

Geoscience/Remote Sensing, or other related titles, 3

Road Base Map -Development/ Enhancement

Locational Referencing

System (LRS) -Development/Maintenance

Data Warehouse -Development/Maintenance

GIS Technical Support and

Training

End-user Application

Development

Web Application

Development Other

Maximum 40% 60% 40% 70% 20% 40% 55%

Average 13% 19% 12% 15% 9% 14% 5%

Median 10% 20% 10% 10% 10% 10% 0%

Minimum (>0%) 3% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 4%

38. What percent of your GIS staff's time is spent in each of the following transportation GIS functions?

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39. What percent (%) of your GIS application development (end-user and/or web) is outsourced?

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Maximum 1000%

Average 54%

Median 15%

Minimum 0%

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40. What is the approximate annual amount ($) expended by your agency for GIS application development contracts?

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0,000 - 50,000

50,000 - 100,000

100,000 - 250,000

250,000 - 500,000

500,000 - 750,000

750,000 - 1,000,000

1,000,000 - 2,500,000

2,500,000 - 5,000,000

Over 5,000,000

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41. Approximately how much money ($) is spent annually on all GIS services?

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Hardware Software Services Data Other

Maximum $700,000 $2,000,000 $5,000,000 $1,000,000 $2,000,000

Average $85,115 $293,366 $319,024 $98,512 $79,329

Minimum (>$0) $600 $10,000 $500 $10,000 $15,000

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42. Survey question suggestions

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• Should not limit the "pick 2" questions. Need to include Mobile in effort types.• This is my first time in the symposium, after this experience I can give more efficient feedbacks for the next

symposiums.• Q 24 was very unclear for us - we don't consider commercially purchased data "our data". Maybe just ask

"Do you purchase data from a commercial vendor?"• increase 40 character limit• Mark, "effort" includes in "r" in item 4 of Question 10.• Noticed that some of the questions ask about licensing but the answer spaces reference users. This seemed

to be misplaced and did not provide ample space to discuss Server vs Desktop licensing.• na• after completing the survey, I would like a pdf of my own answers for my record.• GIS civil service classification question needed a fill in response. California removed all GIS specific

classifications starting in mid-2018.• Great job streamlining the survey!• None at this time. • Pro & LRS

State Survey

• This presentation and survey results on AASHTO GIS-T website

• www.gis-t.org

• Contact• Mark Sarmiento,

[email protected]

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