Municipalities and other local government agencies are usually aware of the benefits of investing in a GIS for helping to manage their assets. Unfortunately for many, the prospect of actually adopting this technology is beyond their means for reasons of cost and know-how. It is assumed that in order to maintain a GIS, you must either have a highly trained and qualified GIS specialist on staff, or you must pay a consultant a regular fee to develop and maintain you GIS databases. Meanwhile valuable resources are being wasted and potential sources of revenue are untapped. In short, not having a GIS is probably costing your town much more than it would cost to implement a one.
Solution:
XMap 5.0 GIS Editor, which is built on DeLorme’s easy-to-use mapping platform, has all of the tools necessary for the creation and management of a municipal GIS. XMap offers access to libraries of aerial imagery in both MrSID and GeoTIFF format and supports all common vector GIS and CAD file formats. This provides direct access to spatial data layers have been created and archived by other government agencies or regional councils of government. More importantly, XMap 5.0 GIS Editor includes tools for quickly and easily creating and editing your own data layers, such as tax parcels, water and sewer lines, building footprints, street centerlines, etc. XMap 5.0 GIS Editor makes building and maintaining a GIS an easy process because it is a truly affordable alternative and relatively easy to learn. GIS is now realistically with the reach of all municipal and local governments, regardless of size.
Built With:
XMap 5.0 GIS Editor
BaseMap:
High-resolution aerial imagery in MrSID format XMap USA Street Level Data 2007 (overview map)
User Additions:
Openspace layer showing tax parcels with those valued at between $60,000 and $100,000 highlighted in red Openspace layer showing building footprints created from aerial imagery
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