GIS Maps for Site Planning

GIS maps help planners organize and compare geographic data for site planning. Before GIS, projects such as schools and public facilities required many separate data sources. Teams had to gather property boundaries, soil characteristics, road networks, zoning rules, and flood zones from courthouses, utility providers, and re...

In the past, planning projects like schools or public facilities involved a labor-intensive process of gathering information.

Data such as property lines, soil conditions, roads, zoning regulations, and flood zones had to be manually collected from various sources, such as courthouses, utility companies, and registry offices.

Compili...