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NRPA GIS Data Test Model-The Future is Now
By Bill Beckner and Larry Orman
 

I

magine a futu r e where all
parks, trails, and recreation facilities across the nation can be
compiled and compared statistically
and graphically on maps, giving you
benchmark data to justify your budget, promote your parks, and provide
other useful management, planning,
marketing, and maintenance data.
 GIS technology is increasingly being used by local governments across
the United States, but each community
captures different information and at different scales. The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) is developing
a GIS data model for parks, trails, and recreation facilities in
an effort to standardize these types of GIS data. The purpose
of this project is to have local governments collect consistent
information in their GIS systems, allowing for better local, regional, and statewide management and planning of park and
recreation resources.
 Assisting with the NRPA project is a consulting team consisting of Applied Geographics and the non-profit GreenInfo
Network. Both consultants have extensive experience in GIS
and its application to park and open space databases.

What comes next?
After NRPA receives all feedback,
the results will be evaluated and
necessary changes made. At that
time, NRPA will post the updated
version of the standard. The target
date for the completion of the final
standard is Feb. 25, 2010. If we have
your contact information (register
your information via the form on the
Downloads page), we'll let you know
about future updates.

Bill Beckner is NRPA's research manager. Larry Orman is the
executive director for the GreenInfo Network.

 What has been done so far?
The project began in mid 2008. An advisory committee comprised of NRPA members, allied organizations, and stakeholders was selected to guide the project and facilitate a broad
national review. A task force developed the criteria, attributes,
and values that would be the basis for the proposed standard.
Once the task force finalized the list of attributes and values,
this information was put into a GIS data model.

 Where are we now?
The project has now reached the testing phase, in which NRPA
requests that agencies use their own data to test the model
and provide feedback. To participate, go to the project homepage at www.nrpagisdata.org to access the GIS data models,
how-to documents, and survey.
The key to this phase of the project is getting feedback from
as many agencies as possible, so please be sure to fill out the
short survey after testing the data. The more feedback received, the better the final standard will be. The testing phase
of the project will end on Feb. 5, 2010.
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