Leveraging Resources through Partnerships: A Case Study of a Distributed Web Mapping Service

North Carolina State University Libraries began a project in Fall 2005 focusing on deployment of a census data map service via the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) protocol. The map service will be exposed for use within the NC OneMap system, which draws on map services made available from state, local, and federal agencies, and which serves as a component of the National Map. Through this partnership with the state GIS agency, the NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA), a gap in availability of demographic data within NC OneMap will be filled. The session will include discussion of the decision-making process regarding variable selection; a brief description of the technical setup and partnership arrangements with CGIA; and analysis of implementation issues.