Describe the Information Products

Knowing what you want to get out of your GIS is the key to a successful implementation. The "stuff" you get from your GIS can be described in the form of "information products."

This stage must be carefully undertaken. You'll need to talk to the users about what their job involves and what information they need to perform their tasks. Ultimately, you need to determine things like how the information products should be made and how frequently, what data is needed to make them, how much error can be tolerated, and the benefits of the new information produced.

This stage should result in a document that includes a description of all the information products that can be reasonably foreseen, together with details of the data and functions required to produce these products.