Requests for GIS products and services have steadily increased over the past several years. Below are some examples of projects completed for the Environment Division (internal) and outside (external) agencies.

•  Internal

• Sampling planning, locating and displaying results
• Collect geographic coordinates for sampling sites.
• Collect locations of certain species of plants like invasive species.
• Display levels of contamination for environmental sampling.
• Maintain base layers
• Boundaries, rivers and streams, roads
• Update existing layers
• New houses or new waterline construction
• Search new layers available from other agencies
• New York State Digital Orthoquadrangle images (DOQ)
• Names-Places
• Web-based pages that use GIS, audio and video to present and preserve history and language.
• Work with other agencies to create new layers:
• Natural Resource Conservation Service – Soils
• U.S. Forest Service – Aerial images for forest inventory
• Share information with contractors and consultants working on Tribal projects.
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Field Data Collection using GPS training is provided upon request. The 3-hour session combines a presentation of the equipment and features and a field exercise. It is conducted by in-house personnel and there is no charge to the students through Onhwentsà:ke .

•  External

• Emergency Planning
• Evacuation zones, Power grid, flood zones
• Water System
• Hydrants, valves, water intakes and outfall, waterlines
• Parcels
• Property information such as acreage, owner names
• Land Claims
• Areas, acreages, owners, tax assessments
• Census Updates
• Population, boundary changes, roads