When Doug Terry talked with consultants about creating a geographic information system (GIS) for Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority, estimates came back at up to $1 million. “For that, they would build us a system and hand us a disk, and we’d still have to buy the hardware and software,” Terry says. “And unless we married the consultants, we’d have a lot of ongoing costs.”So Terry, director of operations for TRMUA, which handles wastewater collection in Toms River Town-ship, N.J., led an initiative in which the township created its own GIS. By hiring a GIS director and training existing staff
