Presentation at the June 2015 meeting of The Data Warehouse Institute in Seattle, by Greg babinski

1. Prospecting for Profits
with GIS
Northwest-Seattle Chapter of TDWI
June 3, 2015
Greg Babinski, MA, GISP
Finance & Marketing Manager
King County GIS Center
URISA Past-President
GIS Management Institute® Past-Chair
Summit Founder and Past Chief Editor
REI: 77528

2. What is GIS & what does a GIS do?

3. GIS combines geographic theory, spatial analysis, and
geospatial technology to help society manage the
Earth’s finite space, with its natural resources and
communities.
‘Geographic Theory?’
 Maps can represent the real world
 Space is finite, which gives property value
 Features are distributed systematically across the
earth’s surface
 Getting from point A to point B takes time, and time
is money

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6. GIS – Fool’s Gold – or Real ROI?

7. Assay offices are
institutions set up to
assay (test the purity of)
precious metals, in order
to protect consumers.
.
The U.S. Assay Office in Seattle
operated 1898 to 1955
But how do we assay the
value of GIS or of any
information technology?

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The Geospatial Revolution in King
County (2013): 4,600+ GIS Users
Cost to develop, implement, operate and use
KCGIS from 1991-2011: $215,216,830

9. AN ANALYSIS OF BENEFITS FROM USE OF
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS BY
KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
-Prof. R. O. Zerbe
http://tinyurl.com/kcgisroi
GIS delivers significant ROI for King
County:
$776 million in net financial benefits
from 1998-2010, and $87-180 million
in 2010 alone.

10. THE ECONOMIC
CONTRIBUTION OF
ORDNANCE SURVEY GB
(1999):
Oxford Economic
Research Associates Ltd

11. Spatial information in the New Zealand economy (2009):
ACIL-Tasman Consulting

12. The value of Danish GIS address data (2010): COWI A/S

13. The value of Spatial Information in the Australian
Economy (2008): ACIL-Allen

14. Google [in 2013] published an
Oxera report that estimates the
revenues from global Geo
services at $150 billion to $270
billion per year.
For context, these findings
suggest that this growing
industry is already larger than
estimates of the size of the video
game industry, and generates
around one-third of the annual
revenue generated by the airline
industry.

15. Canadian Geomatics
Environmental Scan and
Value Study (2015): ACIL-
Allen, ConsultingWhere,
Fujitsu, & Hickings Arthurs
Low

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17. What is GIS & what does a GIS do?

18. What is GIS & what does a GIS do?

19. For more information please contact:
Greg Babinski, MA, GISP
URISA Past-President
GIS Management Institute Past-Chair
Finance & Marketing Manager
King County GIS Center
(206) 477-4402
greg.babinski@kingcounty.gov
www.kingcounty.gov/gis