Regional GIS Collaboratives

Regional Collaboratives are an important part of California's efforts to foster collaboration among regional GIS groups, networks, consortiums, and associations throughout the state. Some of these organizations have formal charter arrangements that make them a council, while others are more of an informal federation of organizations, referred to here as "collaboratives."

Click here for a map of Regional Collaboratives.

The benefits of participating in Regional Collaboratives include:

  • Opportunity for government, non-profits and private sectors to create and achieve mutual goals
  • Increase resource sharing by working on projects that benefit local, state and federal interests
  • Improve geospatial data sharing,
  • Reduce agency cost of geospatial data development and use
  • Increase productivity and efficiency to maximize limited resources
  • Increasing opportunities for people to work together from the government, non-profit, and private sectors

Current goals that regional collaboratives are pursuing include:

  • Implementing homeland security servers that share geospatial datasets
  • Sharing geospatial data through informal and formal agreements
  • Increasing emergency response effectiveness by collecting GIS data that needs to be shared in a secure location in advance of the emergency
  • Educating other GIS professionals of similar projects and activities to increase productivity and decrease redundancy

Representatives of regional collaboratives hold quarterly meetings with CGIA. Regional collaboratives also participate in the California GIS Council annual meeting. Members of regional collaboratives participate in task forces and work groups to implement statewide initiatives that have been adopted by the California Council.

Regional collaboratives meet at designated local sites on a schedule determined by each collaborative. Contact the lead collaborative representative to get information about meeting times and locations. Become involved in CGIS and the regional collaborative near you to promote the effective use of GIS!

 

Regional GIS Collaboratives Contact Information

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Bay Area Regional GIS Council
John Hui, Deputy CIO, City of Berkeley
(925) 313-1318
jhuie@doit.cccounty.us

Central Coast Joint Data Committee
Rex Boyes, GIS Coordinator, City of Watsonville
RBOYES@ci.watsonville.ca.us | http://www.ccjdc.org/

Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative
Zacharias Hunt, ZWorld GIS
(805) 448-1726 | info@zworldgis.com
http://www.cirgis.org

Eastern Sierra GIS Network
Justin Mulbay, GIS Coordinator, Mammoth Community Water District
(760) 934-2596 ext.286 | jmulbay@mcwd.dst.ca.us

Far North Regional GIS Council
Devon Hedemark, GIS Supervisor, City of Redding
(503) 225-4391 | dhedemark@ci.redding.ca.us
http://farnorcalgis.org

Gold Country Regional GIS Collaborative
Jeff Tolhurst, Columbia College Geology/GIS Professor
(209) 588-5235 | tolhurstj@yosemite.cc.ca.us

Humboldt Area GIS Collaborative
Chinmaya Lewis, GIS Coordinator, Humboldt County Planning Department
(707) 268-3737 | clewis@co.humboldt.ca.us

Mendocino-Lake Regional Collaborative
Leif Farr, GIS Coordinator, County of Mendocino
(707) 463-6397 | farrl@co.mendocino.ca.us

North Valley Regional GIS Council
Brian Lasagna, Senior Planner, Butte County Association of Governments
(530) 879-2468 | blasagna@bcag.org
http://www.bcag.org/GIS/North-Valley-Regional-GIS-Council/index.html

Sacramento Regional GIS Council
Joe Concannon, GIS Coordinator, Sacramento Area Council of Governments
(916) 340-6234 | jconcannon@sacog.org

San Diego Regional GIS Council
Grace Chung | San Diego Association of Governments
cchu@sandag.org | www.sdrgc.org

San Joaquin Valley Regional GIS Council
Mark Clark, GIS Coordinator, County of Tulare
(559) 733-6291 ext 4251 | wmclark@co.tulare.ca.us

Greg Gatzka, Deputy Planning Director, County of Kings
(559) 582-3211 x2682 | ggatzka@co.kings.ca.us

Richard J. Green, GIS Program Manager, Merced County Association of Governments
(209) 723-3153 | rich.green@mcagov.org

San Luis Obispo Regional Council
Andy Richardson, GIS Coordinator, California Department of Transportation
(805) 549-3571 | Andy.Richardson@dot.ca.gov
http://slogisug.org

Sierra Nevada Regional GIS Council
Diana Carolan, GIS Manager, Nevada County
(530) 265-7100 | diana.carolan@co.nevada.ca.us

SoCalGIS
Michael Carson, GIS Manager, City of Burbank
(818) 238-5114 | mcarson@burbankca.gov
http://www.socalgis.org

Southeastern California GIS Council
Kevin Viera, Program Manager, Western Riverside Council of Governments
(951) 955-7985 | viera@wrcog.cog.ca.us
http://cms.sbcounty.gov/gis-scgis/Home.aspx

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