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The National Register District GIS Project (NRDGIS) was designed to take data
concerning historic districts within the state of Ohio in paper form and convert that
information into digital data for inclusion into a GIS system. In addition to the data being
available for internal staff use, the National Register district data is being made available
over the Internet for use by the public. To accomplish this task a comprehensive
examination of National Register files was performed within the Ohio Historic
Preservation Office (OHPO) to identify existing data and to ascertain how much data
might need to be collected externally or in-house. It was recognized early on that while
districts entered into the database during the mid-80's contained sufficient scholarly
information, the lack of individual address for some of the large, well established districts
was going to be problematic.