Projects and Activities 2025

Executive Summary

The West Virginia GIS Technical Center, located in the Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, provides focus, direction, statewide coordination, and leadership to users of geographic information systems (GIS), digital mapping and remote sensing within the state of West Virginia. The Center was established by Executive Order 4-93 to provide coordination and technical support in the development and operation of geographic information systems (GIS) for the state. Statewide geospatial activities are coordinated through the WV Office of GIS Coordination, WV Geological and Economic Survey.

During this reporting cycle, the Center completed the WV Hazard Library (https://wvfrf.org/library) of the WV Flood Resiliency Framework for organizing and accessing hazard information relevant to West Virginia. It also submitted boundary changes to the U.S. Census Bureau for 58 legal entities and migrated the Highway Archival Plans electronic retrieval system to WV DOT Servers. In the future, the Center plans on finishing the modernization of the State GIS Clearinghouse and reviewing Cloud Storage options.

Download Full Report Documents:

• Full 2026 Report (PDF)

Past Annual Report Documents

• FY2025 Report
• FY2024 Report
• FY2023 Report
• FY2022 Report
• FY2021 Report
• FY2020 Report
• FY2019 Report
• FY2018 Report
• FY2017 Report
• FY2016 Report
• FY2012 Report
• FY2011 Report
• FY2010 Report
• FY2009 Report
• FY2008 Report
• FY2007 Report