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The UC Davis Arboretum recently debuted an interactive mapping application that allows visitors, students, and researchers to explore the more than 30,000 plants in the Aboretum’s plant collections using their web browsers. This first-of-its-kind application for living botanical collections provides users with the ability to identify individual plants by location, search for plants by name, find plant images, print custom maps, and more.
 Alliance for Public Gardens GISThe Alliance for Public Gardens GIS (APGG) is a consortium of living collection managers from botanical gardens and zoos who are working together to further the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as an enterprise-wide information management and decision making platform. Learn more... Join the APGG...  The APGG is working to develop a free and open source template for implementing GIS projects at botanical gardens, zoos, and similar public landscapes that is designed for Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) ArcGIS software. Learn more... Downloads... Support...  ESRI Grant Program for Botanical Gardens & Zoological Parks ESRI, the leading developer of GIS software and spatial solutions, is offering software and training grants to botanical gardens, arboreta, and zoological parks that want to develop or further their GIS capabilites for managing botanic or horticultural information. Learn more...  The UC Davis Arboretum is working with APGG members to develop a comprehensive GIS training program for museum professionals that will provide public gardens with specialized GIS training resources for getting the most out of a living collection GIS.
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GIS Training SurveyThe APGG is conducting a survey to determine how to focus our efforts to develop GIS training resources for museum professionals.
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