GIS Day 2005

 On November 16, 2005, MassGIS hosted a GIS Day Event in Great Hall at the Massachusetts State House.

The primary focus of the event was to demonstrate the ubiquity and diversity of GIS use throughout the State. This was accomplished by inviting over 20 exhibitors from a variety of State agencies, Regional Planning Agencies and academia to demonstrate their GIS projects and applications in an on-going science fair-type format.

Several hundred people attended the event, including many Legislators and State House staff.

Secretary of Environmental Affairs, Stephen R. Pritchard, spoke about the usefulness of GIS to the core mission of EOEA and its agencies.

He was very impressed with the diversity of agencies represented at the exhibits and mentioned a need for more cooperative cost sharing for purchases of data by all agencies that would ultimately use that data.