Welcome to the California Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) web portal. The California Mapping Coordinating Committee (CMCC)
is in the process of developing a series of GIS-related web pages to provide
information on State government GIS activities, access to statewide GIS
data, and links to the larger California GIS community. This website
and the Spatial Information Library are works in progress.
Starting July 1, 2001 some of California's physical and
cultural geospatial information, formerly distributed by the Teale Data
Center, is being distributed to the public by the California Mapping Coordinating
Committee through servers at the California Environmental Resources Evaluation
System (CERES) in the Resources Agency and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center.
Note: CMCC will be working to update and improve some
of the spatial data in the library and provide access or links to more
up-to-date data served by others over the next several years as need and
funding permit. Caution should be exercised when using some of the layers
of data as they are somewhat outdated; particularly those datasets that
change rapidly (i.e., schools, health facilities, etc.). We strongly
recommend that users refer to the metadata or information about GIS datasets
for appropriate uses of the data, source information, scale information,
and general quality.
CMCC would like to acknowledge the support of the Executive
Sponsors in the Resources Agency, Department of Information Technology,
California Environmental Protection Agency, Governor's Office of Planning
and Research, and Health and Human Services Agency.
We would also like to gratefully acknowledge NASA's funding support for CaSIL under Cooperative Agreement Notice 97-MTPE-02.
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