GIS for Economic Development
 

Map Book Gallery

The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world. View maps created by your peers in economic development.

Volume 23: GIS—Geography in Action

San Diego Central Region Smart Growth AreasCity of Berkeley Downtown Area Plan
The City of Berkeley embarked on a two-year planning effort to update and expand the Downtown Area Plan. There have been significant changes in the downtown area’s economics and demographics since the current Downtown Area Plan was adopted in 1990.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

San Diego Central Region Smart Growth AreasSan Diego Central Region Smart Growth Areas
Smart growth is a compact, efficient, livable, and environmentally sensitive urban development pattern. It focuses future growth and infill development close to jobs, services, and public facilities to maximize the use of existing infrastructure and preserve open space and natural resources.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

city of Oxnard community development mapCity of Oxnard Maps
These four maps show much about community development and renewal in the city of Oxnard. The Public Works Projects map shows new developments along with the status of vital capital improvement project activity. The Neighborhoods map illustrates how communities are organized. The Downtown Guide portrays in three dimensions the core of a city, and the Zoning map shows how this California coastal city is geographically situated and organized.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Development PlanningNew Jersey's Existing and Potential Development
This map of existing and potential areas of development within the state was prepared by employees of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection as a planning tool.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

From the Africa Institute of South AfricaDevelopment Through Knowledge reflects the motto of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). The maps focus on human development indicators that are important in socioeconomic research and economic development, such as poverty levels and adult literacy.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.


 
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