SERVICE-WIDE GIS SPECIFICATIONS

• NPS GIS Data Specifications for Resource Mapping, Inventories, and Studies
  

  Introduction:
  National Park Service (NPS) Resource Management, Inventory and Monitoring, and other program area projects and activities generate both spatial and tabular data sets. These spatial data sets are incorporated into park, regional, and national databases and made available to a wide range of users. Conformance to certain standards and product specifications is necessary to ensure these data sets are discoverable and usable by data consumers. This document provides general standards for spatial data collection and submission. Park-, network-, region-, and program-level project managers may require further specifications and this may vary from project to project and any deviation from these standards must be approved by the project manager.

  This document is maintained by the Natural Resource GIS Program