Get Started Tracking At-Risk Animals Using GIS Data

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) help target the most at-risk animals in communities so shelters can:

• See their communities through real data rather than assumptions or generalizations

• More clearly understand where the most at-risk animals are coming from

• Determine where it makes the most sense to plan targeted interventions

Using data that's at least 80% clean and accurate, shelters can then use GIS to help save more lives.

Prepare to Use GIS

• Prepare to Map Your Data (PDF)
• GIS Preparation Checklist (PDF)
• Free webinar by X Maps Spot team

Implement GIS

• Cleaning Your Data Guide
• Clean Address Poster (PDF)
• Step-By-Step Videos
• Core Statistics and Map Index (PDF)

ASPCA X Maps Spot Project

• Using GIS to Map Animal Data

• Effects of a Geographically-Targeted Intervention in Portland, Oregon (PDF)(Open Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014)

The ASPCA X Maps Spot project was funded by PetSmart Charities©