These database designs are intended to help GIS users rapidly become productive with the geodatabase and to share "what really works" among user and developer communities. This book has two primary goals: 1. Providing a series of domain data models that represent commonly used GIS datasets by applying best practices for GIS data modeling and collection. 2. Communicating a practical GIS database design process. A series of designs derived from specific case studies are presented throughout the book, including: Streams and river networks; Census units and boundaries; Addresses and locations; Parcels and the cadastre; Federal lands survey; Raster data use; Cartography and the basemap; Building accurate geodatabases is the foundation for meaningful and reliable GIS.