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An Ambitious Scheme to Bring All of a State’s Data Together California is working to consolidate all of its geographical data, with the longer-term goal of providing a central portal for everything.</div>
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Blake Martin February 25th, 2020 . I agree with Leah – so many cities are struggling with these same issues. Even though there won’t be an easy bandaid fix for this (like one uniform smart solution), it is encouraging that GIS is an avenue so that so many communities
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<div>CA's efforts to unite all of its data reminds me of the State of Florida's efforts to do this with its GIS data through the Board of Governors.</div>
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