States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) President Karen Rogers (WY) led a celebration of the 2020 Geospatial Excellence Awards during an online reception in conjunction with the organization’s Virtual Annual Conference.
2020 Geospatial Excellence Awards:
Catalyst Awards: for extraordinary effort and/or results in getting things done:
- AZGeo Geospatial Data Hub
- King County Information Technology
- GIS for Equity & Social Justice Team
- MassGIS NextGen 9-1-1 Team
- Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice
- Project
- State of California – GIS
- Vermont’s Statewide Property
- Parcel Mapping Project
Innovator Award: for creatively advancing geospatial technical capabilities or problem solving
- Elizabeth Curley
Champion Award: for leadership and support, often at an executive level
- Dennis Pedersen
“The awards are testimony to the dedicated professionals doing amazing work in states across the country,” says NSGIC President Karen Rogers. “Every recipient is providing value to their GIS community or tools to inform decision makers, which is what it’s all about. The benefits NSGIC members bring to their constituents and leadership cannot be understated, not to mention pushing the envelope of innovation when it comes to location intelligence and data science. It fills me with pride to know how the technology we care so deeply about makes such a difference.”
To be considered for a Geospatial Excellence Award, candidates must meet at least three of the following:
- Creates a sustainable partnership or initiative that returns significant benefit from geospatial technology across multiple organizations
- Documents measured improvement in implementing a state or national spatial data infrastructure
- Advances the ‘create it once, use it a bunch’ credo for efficiently delivering valued geospatial data and services across a broad enterprise of users
- Benefits the whole nation through sharing of innovation or establishment of best practices
- Champions the involvement of all state data infrastructure or national data infrastructure stakeholders
- Promotes NSGIC’s goal of efficient and effective government through increased, prudent adoption of geospatial technologies
