MAPS: A GIS for land resource management in Montana

As a tool for summarizing manipulating and presenting an ever expanding land-attribute data base, the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station developed a computer-based geographic information system (GIS). The Montana Agricultural Potentials System (MAPS) is an operational, state-wide GIS that displays any combination of almost 200 climatic, physiographic, land use and soil attributes on Albers equal area maps at several scales