StateScoop: To ensure government officials and residents alike had access to accurate, real-time COVID-19 data when the virus began spreading earlier this year, Maryland state agencies quickly began using geographic-information-system data to map the spread of the virus, officials said during an online conference on Wednesday.
But Julia Fischer, Maryland’s geographic information officer, said the project represented a learning experience for many of the officials involved, who came from agencies including the Geographic Information Office within the Maryland Department of Information Technology, the state’s health agency and its emergency management agency.
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