Based on material presented in this chapter and your own personal evaluation, identify things that the planners did well in this project. Geographic information systems (GISs) are becoming increasingly important to governmental agencies in conducting their business and serving the public. Such systems use spatial data such as digitized maps and can combine these data with other text, graphics, icons, and symbols (see Chapter 11). The state government in Oregon (sscgis.state.or.us) recognized the increasing importance of GISs as a tool to support decisions that are related to data represented by maps. GISs also offer the potential benefit of coordination among agencies, to avoid duplicated efforts and incompatible data.