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Question #11 responses: Please provide any other comments or suggestions about NRIS web services. |
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| A great product which is very useful. |
| An excellent service and impressive when compared to similar sites of other states. |
| As always I'm impressed that Montana has an information system that is leading the nation. |
| Drought Monitoring page is very well set up. It is comprehehsive and useful. |
| Excellent Resource!!! Thank you very much for your work! |
| Excellent site. Easy to use if I can find my way around the site any one can. I can spend hours on the Topo site! |
| Excellent! I credit Velda |
| For purposes of real estate ownership information & recreation I use the Montana GIS at: http://gis.doa.state.mt.us several times a week. And when it's working I use the Gallatin County GIS. If you provide a link with these I missed it. If you do not perhaps it would be worth considering doing so using the NRIS site as a one-stop access means. Tony Novotny Title Assistant/Cartographer (also state certified Land Surveyor-In-Training & inactively licensed Montana real estate broker) Stewart Title of Bozeman e-mail: tnovotny@stewart.com 406/522-7636 Ext. 108 |
| For the most part a very easy to use site - on-Line access is MUCH BETTER than trying to retreive the information manually! |
| Getting better all the time! |
| good site so far |
| Great Job! I don't know what we'd do without the services you provide! |
| Great Service Thanks |
| Great service--it's made my business activities viable |
| Great site keep up the good work!!! |
| great sites & NRIS is very helpful; hope this survey isn't indicating a removal of it! |
| Great system--please keep it up!! |
| Has come a long way - thanks for all the hard work |
| I am a reference librarian at Montana State University Bozeman. We frequently access information from NRIS with respect to our natural resource/life sciences programs and the needs of students faculty and the general public. |
| I am an environmental mechanic in texas for asteel company and my son is moving to montana and I thought I could find information here pertaining to his community |
| I am consistantly impressed with the data and ease of use of the NRIS system. You have a great hard wriking staff. Keep up the great work! |
| i am super happy with the program. i love to be able to get orhtophoto quads |
| I appreciate the information that I retrieve from the Environet web page. Thanks for making it available. |
| I can only comment that I hope that this service will provide me with the information I seek as an avid outdoorsman. |
| I can only say you're doing a great job with the funding and recognition you get. |
| I can't think of any suggestions at present. Sometimes I need to download data from surrounding states and sometimes encounter difficulties finding and/or acquiring their data. It causes me to appreciate your site all the more. I have found your staff to be most helpful when I have called with questions regarding data. Keep up the good work. |
| I find the datasets available for download on NRIS to be very beneficial. |
| I liked the lecture that Duane gave on the information available but need hands on or more instruction on how to access and layer the information. |
| I recomend NRIS site to consultants to assist them in researching ground water information. |
| I think it is a great web site and I hope you can continue to add data and gather higher accuracy point data. |
| I think that this is a great service to provide especially for those of us not located in Helena. Thanks |
| I think your services are extremely valuable to state government. Your location in the State Library is appropirate as the State Library has no regulatory attachments and NRIS is a provider of unbiased information. |
| I would like to thank all of you at NRIS! Without your help we in DES would not be attempting to implement GIS into Emergency Management in Montana. Jens Bolstad |
| If you start charging then the games over..... |
| In the past we relied more on NRIS staff however we have developed our in-house technical skills and now rely more on in-house staff. The updates of small scale data sets are valuable to our agencies. |
| In the Thematic Mapper - make it possible to look at multiple data layers at one time. |
| Incredible service to the state! |
| Invaluable |
| It would be helpful if the roads rivers ect. were divided into layers based on there size. So that they could be turned on and off depending on the scale that you are viewing the data. |
| It would be nice to have some type of index of the datasets that are not complete for the state but available by request from NRIS. |
| Just browsing around seeing what dnrc is about. |
| Keep it up...you're doing an amazing job!!! |
| Keep up the good work! |
| Keep up the good work! |
| Keep up the good work! NRIS is one of the most useabale and complete sources for GIS data. It is much better than other states in the area. |
| Keep up the good work. Montana needs your services and technical assistance. NRIS should continue to be fully funded no matter how tight the state budget becomes! |
| Keep up the good work. But revamp the old Map Objects driven web pages. They are so 20th century! |
| Keep up the great work! Thank you for all of your webfriendly interfacing and high quality data. I have used many other state's GIS databases and Montana consistently comes up with top marks--A+ |
| know that you are a library. in the most defined sense of the word. information. and laws defend that status. it could be useful in the world of today and maintaining nris. nris is a wonderful resource and i certainly would not be able to efficiently accommodate many of my work requests without the assistance of the excellent tools and brilliant staff available through the nris group. thanks so much!!! |
| Marvelous information avaiable. If needed and when needed. I located the terrain topo and photo site via information from a friend who lives in Spain. |
| Much of the content of your site is geared toward users of GIS software. As a librarian working with the general public it would be very nice to have that more clearly stated right from the start. I've had users get very disappointed/frustrated because they found what seemed like good information only to find out that the format is such that they can't use it. |
| Nice site self explanatory and easy enough for soccer-moms to use. |
| NRIS is a great site but a search box on the homepage would be helpful. And again more comprehensive coverage of Montana species would be very useful. |
| NRIS is a leader in GIS data sharing and an essential resource for GIS in MT and beyond. Please consider offering ArcIMS map services to support the new capabilities of ArcGIS. |
| NRIS is one of the greatest treasures in the Treasure State. Never has so much info been provided to so many by so few with so little funds. A Bargain! But think what they could do with more funds! |
| NRIS provides a very useful service to the public and other GIS users in the form of natural resource data base map data and other state- wide data that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. As a county GIS 100k data has limited use however. |
| NRIS provides a very valuable service to State and Federal agencies in combining data links and linking Federal and State resources. Their employess are very helpful |
| NRIS provides an excellent service for regional users of spatial data. Can't say enough good about their web services. |
| NRIS provides an outstanding service! |
| NRIS staff responds accurately and quickly to inquiries and questions |
| NRIS web services and information are critical to managing the state's environmental resources. I have found the NRIS web services staff to be very responsive and experts in their profession. I encourage NRIS to fill the vacent water information system staff position. |
| NRIS web site is very important for GIS use. The web sight has all most all the building blocks (coverages) for makeing great maps. Most Importantly it is free and I hope that it stays that way. |
| People in the GIS Community rely not just upon the data available through the NRIS website but also upon the wealth of programming expertise housed at NRIS. Thank you for consistently providing such a wonderful service to our community! |
| Really use and enjoy this website for information! |
| Seaching other state's clearinghouses for data sets I realize how lucky we are here in MT to have NRIS! Keep up the great work. |
| See previous comment. |
| THank you and please keep adding more data. |
| Thank you so much for providing such a wonderful service. I've talked to other GIS trainers from other states and very few of them have such a complete set of data for their use. Keep up the good work. Bob Rumney rgr@imt.net |
| Thank you. I have attended a couple of training sessions at different conferences and they are always helpful. |
| Thanks for all the great data!!!!!! |
| Thanks for providing NRIS! |
| Thanks for the information that I occasionally use. It's an efficient way to supplement my classroom activities without having to do time consuming research. |
| The NRIS site is the most important data clearing house in the state of Montana. All efforts should be made to continue supporting and improving this site. Because if all GIS users are using the same data sets and improving these sets the better the end product and efforts of all GIS users will be. THANK YOU NRIS. |
| The NRIS site provides information that makes me more effective at my job. |
| This is an incredibly helpful survice. My life would be much more difficult without it. Thank you. |
| This is one of the finest services of its kind in the country. This type of service has the abilty to provide a vast amount of data to the public (for no direct charge) that would otherwise be burried in agency files and for the most part unavailable to the public. |
| This is one of the most useful sites on the internet!!! |
| This is th first time to use the service so maybe I will have better results as I come better aquainted with the system. |
| this is the first time for using any type webbase services of this kind. I am new to this type of searching. |
| This is very good. Nice to see that our GIS budget is being put to good use. |
| Under #1 ". What sector(s) do you represent?" you do not list "Library: Public Academic Special or School" Your division for "Education" is too broad. A Public Library is a bit more independent and public library patrons taking the survey would not know which sector to choose. |
| Valuable site. Keep up the great work! |
| Very good resource for all users in Montana and the region. |
| We save thousands and thousands of dollars using data from your site and are able to make better decisions with the data. We do not know what we would do without the site. |
| When I send a "Comment or Question" to the link: kdixon@state.mt.us it is returned to me by System Administrator postmaster@state.mt.us as "did not reach the following recipient" My original query was to find out the minutes of the 8/12/2002 meeting in Dillon which has not been posted yet. Looking forward to a speedy reply. Steve Carter sgc@xmission.com |
| Wonderful and highly useful service. Keep up the good work!!! |
| You do a fine job and are well-worth supporting. |
| You guys are wonderful! Innovative and leaders in the web-based data service program. I think it is vital that Montana continue to fund such a successful program. It fits Montana's pioneering history. NRIS has pioneered data service. |
| Your service is very easy to use. |
| Your staff has been extremely helpful with every question I have. Very timely responses to solve problems. |