15 CAR § 282-101 – Introduction

(a) The Arkansas State Land Information Board, now the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board, first developed this standard in 2004 in order to support the legislative initiatives to establish the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure, Arkansas Code § 15-21-504.
(b) Spatial data layers are often stored digitally and accessed through a relational database management system.
(c) Although digital cadastral data is a component of the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI), the ways in which users format and maintain it can differ, and they may often disagree on the way a particular spatial data layer structure should be organized.
(d) This can pose problems in terms of sharing, locating, and extracting spatial data information.
(e) It is intended that geospatial data standards will benefit geographic information systems (GIS) user communities through consistency and efficiency of sharing the data.