GIS Monitor invites our subscribers who are GIS service providers to participate in our year-end survey. Not sure if you or your company is a GIS services provider? Here's how to tell: In the last year did someone pay you/your company to customize, install, teach about, or consult on geospatial technologies? If the answer is yes, please fill out our survey. If not, thanks for reading this far!

The survey has 28 questions. Everyone who participates will be entered into a drawing for goodies provided by GIS Monitor supporters including ESRI, GDT, Autodesk and others. GIS Monitor advertiser will receive the results in January. Other parties will be able to purchase the results.

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About your organization

1. How many GIS professionals work at your company?
1 2-19 20-49 50-99 100-499 500+

2. How many people (total) work at your company?
1 2-19 20-49 50-99 100-499 500-999 1000+

3. How old is the business?
<1 year 1-4 years 5-9 years 10-19 years 20+

4. Do you describe your business as providing primarily:
Products Services Both equally

5. Do you consider your clients primarily:
Local Regional National International

About your technology

1. When providing services do you:
Pretty much use one vendor’s software for all projects Have one preferred solution, but offer others if the client requests them Routinely offer multiple vendor software solutions Typically offer custom software solutions

2. If you provide Web mapping services, which technology have you used most often in the last year?
J2EE (SUN) .NET (Microsoft) Web Sphere (IBM) Web Logic (BEA) Other We do not provide Web mapping related services

3. Have you used open source GIS (including open source databases that store geospatial data) in any of your work in the past year?
Yes No I don’t know

4. Have you worked on (developed, provided data for, designed, done needs analysis for, etc.) a mobile/field application in the past year?
Yes No

5. Have you worked on an application that included 3D visualization in the past year?
Yes No

6. What percentage of your clients already have, or are likely to begin storing spatial data in a RDBMS in the next six months?
0% 1-24% 25-49% 50-74% 75-100%

About your business

1. If you lose a bid for a contract do you generally explain it by saying:
We are too small It was fixed It was low-balled We didn’t bid the right technology We bid too high a price We weren’t qualified Something else

2.How much revenue growth/decline do you expect in calendar year 2003?
>-10% -5% - -9% 0 - > 4% FLAT 5-9% >10%

3. How much, if any, of your work in the past year can you chalk up to “Homeland Security” concerns?
None A project or two About half our work All of our work

4. Have you done work for the defense sector in the past year?
Yes No

5. Have you outsourced any work overseas this year?
Yes No Don't know

About Data

1. If you do buy data, do you buy more
Imagery (satellite, aerial, historic) Vector Don’t buy data

2. Have you purchased imagery (satellite or aerial) for your company or a client in the past year?
Yes No

3. Have you worked with LiDAR data in the past year?
Yes No

4. How do your clients purchase GIS data?
We buy data on behalf of our clients. Clients buy direct from data vendors. Our clients rarely buy data.

5. How many reputable nationwide (US) data providers do you believe are in the marketplace today?
1 2 3 4 5 > 5

6. In the last year has any of your work involved making a GIS database more accurate by adding information from land surveying activities?
Yes No

About Your Interaction with Vendors

1. What is your preferred method of learning about a new technology?
By reading a brochure By reading a magazine article By reading a company-written "white paper" By participating in a live webcast By attended a live demonstration By watching an online/CD based demonstration Some other way

2. If you acquired a “demo CD” of geospatial technology in the last year, did you actually install and run the program?
Yes No I didn’t receive one

Interoperability

1. Have you, in the past year, implemented (used) the Web Map Service or other specifications produced by the Open GIS Consortium, Inc.? (in custom, commercial or open source software)
Yes No I don’t know

2. How often do your clients specifically require interoperability in solutions that you provide?
Not at all Some of the time Most of the time

3.What is your/your client’s main interoperability priority?
Integrating spatial and business data Using multiple applications across the enterprise Integrating different spatial data formats Other I don’t know

4. How important are OpenGIS specifications to your business?
Not at all A little Some Very Crucial

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