Case Studies Archives
Code Enforcement
Improving Code Enforcement Services With GIS
The Code Compliance Division of the city of Riverside, California, is responsible for enforcing the city municipal codes. However, the existing code violation database system provided no means for the division to adequately track the existing workload.
Community Mapping
Putting the Nonprofit Community on the Map
CMAP is a project of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), New York State 's largest nonprofit research and advocacy group.
E-Gov
New Methods for Delivering Government Services
Many government operations utilize manual methods or still separate GIS data from business processes and work flow, resulting in significant inefficiencies.
Emergency Planning
Tornado Alley "What If" Scenario Brought to Life With GIS
The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) and the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas, have put together a Tornado Damage Risk Assessment. For cities, it is simply a case of planning smartly and not being caught unprepared.
Utilizing GIS for Emergency Planning and Beyond
Pembina County has digitized road information and incorporated resident addresses for the 911 system. The County has automated the link between its 911 database mapping system generating a map of the location of the caller.
Enterprise GIS
Los Angeles City Departments Share Data for Special Applications
The implementation of an enterprise GIS at the city of Los Angeles, California, is taking shape as multiple departments develop the applications to meet their specific business needs while keeping the data and system resources they use consistent and coordinated.
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ePlanning
How Would YOU Manage It?
The government hopes the new system will let public shape monument management. It soon will be easier for Americans to have a say in how some of the country's most spectacular scenery is managed and protected.
Public Lands to Get Public Input
BLM is aiming to hear more from the public on management of some of the nation's greatest treasures.
Housing
Ski Resort GIS Challenge: Creating Affordable Housing for Local Residents
The city of Steamboat Springs and Routt County, Colorado, jointly adopted the West of Steamboat Area Plan (WSAP) to guide development projects on 1,500 acres of land west of the city. Affordable housing is a key component of the plan, and CommunityViz allowed citizens and planners to evaluate the potential benefits and impacts of various affordable housing strategies.
GIS Helps Laguna Niguel
The city of Laguna Niguel, California, used the spatial analysis capabilities of ArcView to decide how to administer funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in a way that maximized the number of areas that could qualify to receive funding.
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Land Use Planning
Using GIS to Illustrate the Predicted Land Use Changes Caused by Economic Factors in the Hudson River Valley [PDF-405 KB]
Land use changes can affect the health of the immediate environment where those changes occur. Although complex, using economic variables is essential to calculate land use change because economic changes drive land use changes. These projections are made using a GIS database to extract socioeconomic and county-level tax parcel data as well as parcel specific data.
Improved Land Use Mapping [PDF-417 KB]
GIS technology gave the city of Richmond, Virginia, Land Use Administration Division an opportunity to replace archaic mapping methods and use GIS as an effective map productivity tool.
Formulating a Sustainable Development Land Use Scenario Using GIS
Together, the Australian Research Council, the Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning, and the Hervey Bay City Council developed a sustainable development-based land use scenario for the shire using ArcGIS 8 and a GIS-based planning support system.
Permit Tracking
Using GIS to Track General Plan Compliance
The Los Angeles Times subsequently used the GIS methodology to investigate development approvals throughout the Santa Monica Mountains.
Implementation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Environmental Permit Compliance for the City of Celebration, Florida
It was determined that an integrated system of data bases and spatial features needed to be created, using ArcInfo and ArcView, through which permit compliance would be forecasted and monitored.
Redevelopment
Planning the Future of a Former Marine Air Station
Officials in Orange County, California, are in the midst of planning the reuse of the 4,700-acre Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. The planning effort involves as many as 10 different airport scenarios, each represented graphically through GIS.
Kenton County Leads Way in Brownfield Redevelopment
Creating the Kenton County Land Recycling GIS-based inventory is the first step in implementing a purposeful, communitywide program for brownfield redevelopment.
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Smart Growth
Combating Urban Sprawl [PDF- 813 KB]
The Greenspace Acquisition Support System is a model for other Georgia counties and municipalities. It demonstrates the importance of using GIS for greenspace identification, prioritization, and acquisition.
San Antonio, Texas, Uses GIS Tool for Collaborative Planning
San Antonio's Broadway Corridor was modeled three ways in INDEX: existing conditions, current plan build out, and stakeholders' alternative plan build out.
Modeling Tools for Santa Barbara Smart Growth Planning Supported With GIS
The Geography Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB),
is working closely with a local nonprofit organization to help develop an ArcView software-based GIS and a set of modeling tools that can be used to promote regional thinking and smart growth concepts to the local community.
Urban Growth Along South Carolina's Coast
With the emphasis on attracting more industry and business to boost the local economy and the state's expected population increase from 3.5 million to 4.5 million by 2010, local and regional planners were interested in balancing the environmental concerns of this fragile coastal region with economic needs.
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Transportation Planning
GIS Tools for Transportation and Community Planning
This case study describes innovative applications of GIS techniques that the Federal Highway Administration's Transportation and Community and System Preservation Pilot Program (TCSP) grantees have used to support transportation and community planning.
GIS in Transportation
GIS provides the hub technology for planning, deploying, operating, and optimizing transportation systems. GIS, the backbone of an intelligent transportation system (ITS), utilizes advanced technologies.
Urban Planning
Imagery in Urban Planning
Remotely sensed imagery provides urban planners with cost-effective, rapidly acquired, repetitive data covering extensive areas.
A case for urban planning in the city of Beihai, China.
Georgia puts Comprehensive Plans On-line Using ArcIMS
The state of Georgia's Department of Community Affairs has empowered community planners with a web-enabled Planning Support System for preparing and publishing Comprehensive Plans.
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Visualization
Essex, Vermont, Discovers the Power of 3D Analysis
Planning and economic development concerns are explored using 3D visualization methods and techniques to evaluate what a particular area may look like in 20 or 30 years.
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