If a road is built in a municipality, and no one from the state is around to know it, does it really exist?
With much of the transportation and road construction authority in government going to local governments over state agencies, leaders in geospatial data are looking for more ways to collaborate to ensure that everyone stays on the same page.
“There are state agencies who have roles and missions to play where they need to know about that new road,” Shelby Johnson, Arkansas’ geographic information officer, says on a new episode of GIS Addressed. “At the local level and at the state level, someone needs to know or consume that information and … you have to have coordination in between.”
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