They also wanted to replace the hand-drafted maps. They also wanted the users maintaining the data. Erich also talked about costs. After professional fees, the next most expensive parts were capital, then hardware, and then software maintenance. Future plans include having the capability of doing live updating on the data, refining custom applications, and benchmarking the process.
Public access is another possibility.
The GIS project for the MMWD has 3 staff people doing primarily GIS work plus 8 people maintaining the data. Erich also included a live ArcView demo. He showed parcels, cities, and the Mount Tam watershed. The tax assessor parcels database covers about 90,000 parcels. Orthophotos are also used and use about 20-30 gigabytes of storage space.