Preservation and Web GIS

Historic preservation today is still begun at the grass roots level. Generating a
committed community of individuals dedicated to preservation of resources is critical in
most every preservation success. Increasingly, preservation issues include multiple
organizations with widely disparate needs. How can a preservation project manage and
share diverse types of data amongst these multiple stakeholder groups. Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) can help build and support local grass root preservation
initiatives. GIS is software that allows for the management and analysis of anything that
can be quantified by space. GIS can help local, county, and state governments manage
their historical resources more effectively while simultaneously empowering the local
community members with information about historical resources present. Importantly,
this type of database can be used by more types of organizations with some tie to or
impact on preservation~ for example, real estate, education, home owner associations,
government offices, engineers, architects, disaster planning, and nonprofit
organizations
to name a few. The GIS along with cooperation of these different organizations will
allow for a healthier preservation community.

Images/Documents

HISP700_2006_Goddard2.pdf