Franchising Web-based Tools

The Network Hub, with funding from the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) at the University of New Hampshire, is facilitating wider use of web-based geospatial tools within the NEMO Network through the “franchising” of CT’ NEMO’s Online Community Resource Inventory (CRI) tool to at least three other states: Rhode Island, Minnesota, and South Carolina.

The Online CRI, is a website that provides users with access to 14 geospatial data layers of natural, cultural, and economic resources for every town in Connecticut. As users page through the data they effective produce a basic resource inventory that can be used to inform land use planning decisions. The site serves as a complement to NEMO workshops that focus on the basic premise that good local planning should begin with an understanding of what and where the community’s natural and cultural resources are.

Under this effort, the CT and RI NEMO programs are collaborating on developing a similar site for Rhode Island as well as enhancing the CT site with more advanced features. Once that has been accomplished. The CT and RI programs will work with NEMO programs in South Carolina and Minnesota (and eventually other interested NEMO programs) to adapt the tools to portions of their states.

For more information visit CRI Online.

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