The way local government handles geospatial information systems is fragmented across the country, the Public Technology Institute found in a March 2017 poll.
In a “quick poll” of local government IT officials, PTI found that GIS operations were housed within the government’s IT department 55 percent of the time. Approximately one-third of local governments reported that their GIS was housed outside of the IT department, while 10 percent reported the systems were maintained across several different departments.
