Why has the Forestry GIS Data Transfer Standard been developed?
Increasingly, interaction between companies is occurring electronically. However for forestry companies, which use many maps with differing themes, this has meant printing the map onto paper, and sending it by postal mail. Government departments are keen to interact with their stakeholders through electronic media, and the lack of a spatial transfer standard has been a major barrier to this in the forest industry. The Forestry GIS Data Transfer Standard has been shown to save time and money, reduce input errors and improve the quality of plans being submitted.
