BLM - Geospatial Business Platform (GBP)
Investment ID: 010-000000105
Overview
Program Title
BLM - Geospatial Business Platform (GBP)
Description
The Geospatial Business Platform (GBP) (formerly EGIS) is a platform for hosting corporate geospatial data, tools, and services. GBP provides access to desktop and server-based GIS tools for natural resource planning and land management activities. EGIS leverages the ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and Server products. GBP provides BLM with a single point of access to geographic data and tools to promote coordination and alignment of geospatial data collection by providing standards and models for geospatial data and an interactive index to geospatial data holdings for BLM corporate data. GBP provides the hosting platform that allows public access to BLM GIS services and related data. GBP was initiated in 2002 and is owned and managed by the Associate Director of the National Operations Center.
Type of Program
Non-major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable