The North Carolina state and local government metadata profile as adopted by the NC Geographic Information Coordinating Council. The document and other information can be found at: https://it.nc.gov/documents/files/gicc-smac-state-local-gov-metadata-profile.

Data Collection

Because titles vary widely across local governments our researchers call 22,000 counties, cities, and towns every 180 days to learn who is currently in the role and what their title is. It's common for officials to be responsible for multiple roles especially in smaller local governments. Because the data is phone verified MarketEdge's contact data achieves 97% accuracy.

Overview

The Head of GIS is the custodian of geospatial data that is critical for departments like Planning and Zoning, Economic Development, Building Permits and Inspections, Public Utilities, and Resource Management for the development and maintenance of public infrastructure.

Responsibilities

To qualify as the Head of GIS the person must perform one or more of the following primary responsibilities: - Manage and maintain geographic data like maps, zones, facility locations etc. - Manage GIS project plans and data collection schedules - Developing and implement standards for GIS deployment and creating and - maintaining structures necessary for GIS data storage - May also analyze and present geographical and spatial information

Reporting Structure and Occurrence A GIS function can exist within a government as an independent department OR may be an additional responsibility of another larger department like IT, Community Development, Building and Permits, Planning and Zoning and Public Works. In some local governments this function is outsourced to a private company or another government (county/state).

Titles You Might Expect - Town / Township Assessor - County Assessor - GIS Manager / Coordinator - GIS Specialist - GIS Analyst - GIS Technician - GIS Administrator - City Planner - Surprising Titles - Planning Director - Community Development Director - City Engineer - Chief Appraiser - County Engineer - Revenue Commissioner - Director of Engineering

Please note this dataset is the most recent version of the Administrative Boundaries (AB). For previous versions of the AB please go to this url: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/previous-versions-of-the-geoscape-administrative-boundaries

Geoscape Administrative Boundaries is Australia’s most comprehensive national collection of boundaries, including government, statistical and electoral boundaries. It is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here.

This dataset comprises seven Geoscape products:

• Localities
• Local Government Areas (LGAs)
• Wards
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Boundaries
• Electoral Boundaries
• State Boundaries and
• Town Points

Updated versions of Administrative Boundaries are published on a quarterly basis.

Users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing either GDA94 or GDA2020 datums.

Notable changes in the May 2025 release

• Victorian Wards have seen almost half of the dataset change now reflecting the boundaries from the 2024 subdivision review. https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/electoral-boundaries/council-reviews/ subdivision-reviews.

  • There have been spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 to 66 wards in Victoria.

• One new locality ‘Kenwick Island’ has been added to the local Government area ‘Mackay Regional’ in Queensland.

  • There have been spatial changes(area) greater than 1 km2 to the local government areas 'Burke Shire' and 'Mount Isa City' in Queensland.

• There have been spatial changes(area) greater than 1 km2 to the localities ‘Nicholson’, ‘Lawn Hill’ and ‘Coral Sea’ in Queensland and ‘Calguna’, ‘Israelite Bay’ and ‘Balladonia’ in Western Australia.

• An update to the NT Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries has been applied to reflect the redistribution of the boundaries gazetted on 4 March 2025.

• Geoscape has become aware that the DATE_CREATED and DATE_RETIRED attributes in the commonwealth_electoral_polygon MapInfo TAB tables were incorrectly ordered and did not match the product data model. These attributes have been re-ordered to match the data model for the May 2025 release.

IMPORTANT NOTE: correction of issues with the 22 November 2022 release

• On 28 November 2022, the Administrative Boundaries dataset originally released on 22 November 2022 was amended and re-uploaded after Geoscape identified some issues with the original data for 'Electoral Boundaries'.
• As a result of the error, some shapefiles were published in 3D rather than 2D, which may affect some users when importing data into GIS applications.
• The error affected the Electoral Boundaries dataset, specifically the Commonwealth boundary data for Victoria and Western Australia, including 'All States'.
• Only the ESRI Shapefile formats were affected (both GDA94 and GDA2020). The MapInfo TAB format was not affected.
• Because the datasets are zipped into a single file, once the error was fixed by Geoscape all of Administrative Boundaries shapefiles had to be re-uploaded, rather than only the affected files.
• If you downloaded either of the two Administrative Boundary ESRI Shapefiles between 22 November and 28 November 2022 and plan to use the Electoral Boundary component, you are advised to download the revised version dated 28 November 2022. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here or through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support.

Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia.

The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 licence.

Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Users must also note the following attribution requirements:

Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material:

Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

Preferred attribution for Adapted Material:

Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

What to Expect When You Download Administrative Boundaries

Administrative Boundaries is large dataset (around 1.5GB unpacked), made up of seven themes each containing multiple layers.

Users are advised to read the technical documentation including the product change notices and the individual product descriptions before downloading and using the product.

Please note this dataset is the most recent version of the Administrative Boundaries (AB). For previous versions of the AB please go to this url: https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-b4ad5702-ea2b-4f04-833c-d0229bfd689e/details?q=previous

License Information

Public Notification is a configuration of Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS that can be used by local government staff to identify a collection of properties and create mailing labels, or a structured text file, of owners and occupants.Learn more

2024 Local Government Fund Allocation. Updated Monthly.

This dataset demarcates the municipal boundaries in Allegheny County. Data was created to portray the boundaries of the 130 Municipalities in Allegheny County the attribute table includes additional descriptive information including Councils of Government (COG) affiliation (regional governing and coordinating bodies comprised of several bordering municipalities), School District, Congressional District, FIPS and County Municipal Code and County Council District.

This dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal. The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County's GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the "Explore" button (and choosing the "Go to resource" option) to the right of the "ArcGIS Open Dataset" text below.

Category: Civic Vitality and Governance

Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services

Vermont established its Certified Local Government (CLG) program in 1985 to better help local governments integrate historic preservation concerns with planning and decision making processes. This layer identifies communities that have achieved Certified Local Government status. Learn more about the Vermont Certified Local Government program. Learn more about the Vermont Certified Local Government grant.

The term "Unit of General Local Government" refers to a city, county, town, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of a State. Units of General Local Government (UGLG) are comprised of several Census geographies including:

Summary Level 050 - State-County;

Summary Level 060 - County Subdivision;

Summary Level 070 - State-County-County Subdivision-Place/Remainder;

Summary Level 160 - Place;

Summary Level 170 - State-Consolidate City; Remainders of County Lands. Please note that this version of the data does not include Community Planning and Development entitlement grantees. To learn more about the HUD FHA Revitalization Areas Program visit: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/sfh/reo/abtrevt/, for questions about the spatial attribution of this dataset, please reach out to us at GISHelpdesk@hud.gov. Data Dictionary: DD_Unit of General Local Government (UGLG) Date of Coverage: 2020

SurfaceManagementAgency: The Surface Management Agency (SMA) Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset depicts Federal land for the United States and classifies this land by its active Federal surface managing agency. The SMA feature class covers the continental United States, and Alaska. A Federal SMA agency refers to a Federal agency with administrative jurisdiction over the surface of Federal lands. Jurisdiction over the land is defined when the land is either: Withdrawn by some administrative or legislative action, or Acquired or Exchanged by a Federal Agency. This layer is a dynamic assembly of spatial data layers maintained at various federal and local government offices. The GIS data contained in this dataset represents the polygon features that show the boundaries for Surface Management Agency and the surface extent of each Federal agency’s surface administrative jurisdiction. SMA data depicts current withdrawn areas for a particular agency and (when appropriate) includes land that was acquired or exchanged and is located outside of a withdrawal area for that agency. The SMA data do not illustrate land status ownership pattern boundaries or contain land ownership attribute details.The full Kansas geospatial catalog is administered by the Kansas Data Access & Support Center (DASC) and can be found at the following URL: https://hub.kansasgis.org/

This inventory includes all data sets scheduled for release between July 2016 and December 31, 2018.

This data is part of the administrative area layer, a group layer containing the various geographic divisions in Atlanta. It follows ESRI's Local Government Information Model. For more information about the local government model visit "What is the Local Government Information Model."Area Covered: Atlanta, GAKey Attributes:Name: The name of the county.Update Frequency: When Census boundary updates occur.Source:Department of City Planning GIS55 Trinity Ave SWAtlanta, GA 30303gis-team@atlantaga.govMetadata Edited: Oct 2021

Polygon boundaries of municipalities that are active or former participants in the Historic Preservation Office’s (HPO) Certified Local Government program (CLG). This program is a partnership among the National Park Service, HPO, and local government to implement historic preservation planning at the local level. The dataset provides the dates of participation in the CLG program, and links to the municipal government’s website.

City council members, their positions, and term end date for municipalities in Alaska.Source: Alaska Municipal LeagueThis data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: Alaska Municipal League.

This data is part of the administrative area layer, a group layer containing the various geographic divisions in Atlanta. It follows ESRI's Local Government Information Model. For more information about the local government model visit "What is the Local Government Information Model."Area Covered: Atlanta, GAKey Attributes:Name: The quadrant identifier.Update Frequency: As needed.Source:Department of City Planning GIS55 Trinity Ave SWAtlanta, GA 30303gis-team@atlantaga.govMetadata Edited: Oct 2021

County Council Districts approved 2021 effective 2022-2032. If you find any issues with the features, please use this link to email the Board of Elections.For more information regarding this data, please visit the Board of Elections website.

The Local Geohistory Project aims to educate users and disseminate information concerning the geographic history and structure of political subdivisions and local government. This repository contains the data used to populate the project website. The tab-separated values (TSV) files containing the data are available in the data folder, and metadata is available in the metadata folder.

Currently, the open dataset only contains information related to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with several scattered events concerning neighboring jurisdictions, mostly that currently border either state.

This repository does not contain the application code, which can be found in the Application repository, nor does it contain the table data for the bundled calendar extension.

Cities have gotten creative with map-based apps and dashboards to connect citizens to food, and help small businesses get the word out about available services.Key TakeawaysFamilies find resources using local maps of food banks and school district distribution centers.Local businesses benefit from interactive maps showing residents available services for delivery and take out.With volatile grocery store inventory, shoppers rely on crowdsourced maps to know what’s in stock._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

Dataset represents centerlines of major water project canals that are managed by local area government agencies or entities. This dataset does not contain major State or Federal canals. The original data were from many sources including NHD,USBR,DWR,and contained errors in the attributes and locations. These errors were rectified by Jeff Galef of DWR Delta Levees Special Investigations Branch, using 2005 and 2006 NAIP imagery and Central Valley Aerials Express. These updates were as of 2009. Conflicts between this original data source and any new linework added was resolved using NAIP imagery from 2012. Digitizing was done at approximately 1:9000 scale. Many unnamed canals were identified using USGS topo maps and ESRI Street Map. Additional canal features were added in November 2017 which were inadvertently not included in the initial dataset.

Data.AustinTexas.gov is the official portal for Open Data from the City of Austin (COA). The City of Austin’s GIS/Map Downloads page is the official portal for COA GIS data and map products that do not reside on Data.AustinTexas.gov. Both are public domain websites, which means you may link to Data.AustinTexas.gov and ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/GIS-Data/Regional/coa_gis.html at no cost. When you link to Data.AustinTexas.gov or ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/GIS-Data/Regional/coa_gis.html, please do it in an appropriate context as a service to people when they need to find official City of Austin data. We encourage you to use our logo, which we’ve provided below. Placement of the Data.AustinTexas.gov logo is to be used only as a marker and link to the home page. It is not meant as a form of endorsement or approval from the City of Austin. City of Austin Open Data Terms of Use - https://data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/ranj-cccq

GIS Shape/Boundaries of the Voting precincts