Illinois GIS Strategy

The NYS GIS Coordinating Body, operating under the auspices of the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination, coordinates, promotes and facilitates the development, effective use, and sharing of geographic information. It also removes barriers to implementing geographic information technology to improve the delivery of public services, protect the public and the environment, and enhance the business climate for the benefit of the State, its municipalities, businesses and citizens.

There are no fees to join the Cooperative. The only potential costs associated with the Cooperative involve:
1) Staff time to fill GIS data sharing requests from other members and/or the cost of media. (We encourage all members to work toward placing their GIS data on a web site to enable it to be downloaded electronically without requiring staff interaction on each request.)
2) Providing metadata to the Clearinghouse.