Information System Rob Aanstoos briefed the Subcommittee on what they were doing in the spatial world on the Web. TxDOT has very detailed county maps, which are updated every year and are on the Web. The maps are house at the University of Texas Library and linked with the TxDOT Web site. Reagan Greer asked Rob Aanstoos to define spatial. Rob Aanstoos stated the correct terminology is geospatial.
Geospactial data is data that models the geography of the earth, usually the surface.
A number of agencies have begun implementing their GIS applications on the Web, which is typically for viewing and querying spatial data. The agencies are actively coordinating these functions with each other through the Texas Geographic Information Council. The Texas Geographic Network is the initiative that is going on right now. It's not something you can bring up on the screen today, it's in an initial develop phase. Marcy Berbrick gave more detail on the initiative.