A Local-State Government Spatial Data Sharing Partnership

A Local-State Spatial Data Sharing Partnership Model to Facilitate SDI Development
Data Directory (ASDD). However, this trend is most likely to change over the next few
years as LGAs begin to provide web access to their spatial information. LGAs appear to
be very active in developing web mapping portals for their external users as identified in
Figure 6.7.
Percent
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
Web Mapping Available
Under Development
Internet Web Mapping
Figure 6.7 Use of web mapping
168
No Web Mapping
The results identified that approximately 21% of LGA respondents currently provide
external internet mapping, with another 21% indicating that they were developing a web
mapping capability. The remaining 58% of LGA indicated that either they did not want to
provide their spatial data over the internet or did not have the technical
capability/resources to do so.
Value of Web Mapping to Business
LGAs were also asked if making their data available to external clients and customers
through mechanisms such as the internet helped facilitate their LGA’s business (see Figure
6.8). 73% of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed with this proposition, 20% were
neutral, and only 7% of LGA respondents disagreed. This highlights the importance
placed by LGAs on empowering their clients to access data by external mechanisms.