The Harris County Geographic Information Systems Task Force was formed in 1998 to provide a central point for establishing standards and procedures to satisfy the requirements of county agencies as they pertain to address, geographic and demographic related applications. The task force is a group of people representing Harris County and other regional agencies who have interests in creating and maintaining maps, databases and overlays of information related to geography, addressing, criminal analysis, what GIS can do is limited to the imagination and resources of the user.

The GIS Task force has reformed as the Harris County Spatial Data Committee