Evaluation of National Institute of Justice-Funded Geospatial Software Tools Technical and Utility Assessments to Improve Tool Development, Dissemination, and Usage

• Main Author: Wong, Carolyn (auth)
• Other Authors: Sorensen, Paul (auth), Hollywood, John S. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2014
• Subjects: Computer science; Police & security services; Politics & government; Political Science; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A geospatial software tool-evaluation study conducted for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) assessed 14 recent NIJ-funded tool developments. The study integrates input from tool developers and users with RAND's independent assessments. The authors found that 12 developments resulted in fu...