The Research Foundation of the American Public Works Association is conducting, under the sponsorship of over twenty agencies, the Computer Assisted Mapping and Record Activities Systems (CAMRAS) program. The CAMRAS program provides for a joint use planning, engineering, and management tool that can greatly improve speed and accuracy in compiling, transferring, and using information; and which provides an economical retrieval of important data needed by a large number and variety of public agencies and utility companies operating within a common geographic area. The specific objectives of the program are (1) to develop, promulgate, and implement suggested procedures and standards for jointly funded, and shared use, computer assisted, geo-based location record systems, and (2) to assist in the initiation, development, testing, and operation of a working system at a size and scope to provide a wide range of measurable and user-oriented data. This will be accomplished through a CAMRAS-type implementation of a test site location. Memphis, Tennessee is serving as the site of the model test application which is to be conducted over a three year period at a funding level of approximately $1.7 million.
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