OGRIP presents 2004
Best Practice Awards
-- OIT Enterprise Shared Services, October 2004

The Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program (OGRIP), the state's coordinating body for Geographic Information System (GIS) activities at state and local levels of government, has presented its Best Practices Award to three counties and also honored a fourth.

Lake, Madison and Stark counties received awards at the Ohio GIS Conference on Oct. 1 in Columbus. Belmont County also received an Honorable Mention Award for its newly established GIS program.

OGRIP cited:

Lake County for providing immediate access to information    previously scattered across a number of county offices.
Madison County for streamlining and providing emergency    response information to city, county and townships on a    daily basis.
Stark County for improving its existing GIS system to    assist surveyors and promote other technology.
Belmont County for its recent launch of a GIS system that    will benefit local governments in a number of ways that will    become more evident as the system matures.

The annual conference is co-sponsored by OGRIP, the County Engineers Association of Ohio, the County Auditors' Association of Ohio and several other organizations.

OGRIP is part of the Enterprise Shared Services office within the Ohio Office of Information Technology. For more information regarding OGRIP or GIS activities in Ohio, please contact OGRIP at 466-4747.