We need your help!

During the next couple of weeks, your various departments will be invited to actively participate in a User Needs Analysis. KGIS has enlisted the help of a consultant to collect an inventory of those GIS features most important and critical to our respective departmental workflows and missions.  We therefore encourage your participation in this survey, in the hopes that its results will be of great benefit to KGIS's long-term, strategic planning and new mapping initiatives. 

 

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Dear KGIS User Departments:

Since its 1985 founding, KGIS has assembled a geographic database consisting of more than 200 distinct map types having a collective size of almost 500 gigabytes. Keeping this database accurate, up-to-date and easily accessible is a primary objective of this organization. 

Over the past 30 years, the technology and methods used to obtain this geographic data have changed, and continue to change. “Old ways” of data gathering may no longer make sense in light of newer, more cost-effective products. As KGIS looks towards its longterm mapping strategies, and their sustainability, it is important to examine the various options more closely. 

But prior to embarking on any new mapping programs, the KGIS Policy Board seeks to conduct a User Needs Analysis to better quantify the GIS requirements of our respective user departments, especially in regards to data accuracy, frequency, content, accessibility and criticality. And to that end, the professional services of a GIS consultant has been enlisted to gather this information, via surveys and interviews, and to present findings to the Board. 

 

That’s why we need your help. 

During the next couple of weeks, your department will be invited to actively participate in this User Needs Analysis - to engage with the consultant, making sure that your department’s current (and future) GIS requirements are fully presented and documented.

Since a formal GIS needs analysis of this type has never been conducted by KGIS, I am excited, and sincerely hope that you will help us with this effort.

 

With best wishes,

Keith G. Stump

KGIS Executive Director / GIO