GIS Partnership Summary

Shared Adirondack Park
Geographic Information CD-ROM Version 1.0

Partnership Purpose and Goal

The "Shared Adirondack Park Geographic Information CD-ROM version 1.0" assembles Adirondack Park geographic information from a broad set of disciplines and makes it easily available for improved park planning.

From school children to graduate researcher, from town planner to county and state planners - it is the hope of the participants that the Adirondack Park will benefit greatly from the improved accessability of this information.

Participants and Resource Contributions

Each of the following participants contributed data layers:

• Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation
  
• NYS Department of Education
  
• NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
  
• NYS Department of Health
  
• NYS Department of Transportation
  
• NYS Office of Real Property Services
  
• NYS Adirondack Park Agency
  
• Northern Forest Lands Inventory
  
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
  
• USGS

The NYS Adirondack Park Agency assembled data layers, created an HTML interface for the CD set and is reproducing the distributing the CD.

Time Frame

Date Partnership Began: May 2001
Completion Date: On-going

Deliverables

This two-disk set assembles over 50 geographic data layers from 11 State and federal agencies from a broad set of disciplines. Map data layers are grouped on the CD by thematic content ready for use in the user's own GIS software, or in the free GIS data viewer provided on the CD. All data sets are in the Universal Transverse Mercator projection and the North American Datum of 1983. The majority of data layers are mapped at 1:24,000 scale or larger (suitable for regional planning), cover the whole Park, and are the most current available.

Brief Summary of Partnership

All of the project participants were very willing to share their data. We hope that this is only the beginning of a partnership devoted to spatial information sciences in the Adirondack Park. For an even more comprehensive collection we would like the participation of Local Government and not-for-profit data developers on future versions.

Even though we provide free GIS viewer software, the software is not intuitive. Therefore the potential benefits from this information are still not immediately achievable for the novice. Workshops with users and/or Internet help are being considered.

In the first month of distribution with limited advertising, we sent out 107 CD's to State and Federal Agencies, Local Municipalities, Academic affiliates, not-for-profits, small businesses, and individuals.

Contact Information

Sunita Halasz
Environmental Program Specialist
NYS Adirondack Park Agency
P.O. Box 99
Ray Brook, NY 12977


Phone: (518) 891-4050
Fax: (518) 891-3938
E-Mail: sshalasz@gw.dec.state.ny.us

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John Barge
Sr. Natural Resource Planner
NYS Adirondack Park Agency
P.O. Box 99
Ray Brook, NY 12977

Phone: (518) 891-4050
Fax: (518) 891-3938
E-Mail: jwbarge@gw.dec.state.ny.us