What is a GIS, you say?

MAPS

You may have heard about  “GIS” or “Geographic Information System.” But you're here to learn more right?  What is it, what does it do for our community? Well let me give you a little synopsis, then check out our maps section and see some finished product.

GIS is an intelligent mapping system that allows us to collect and track data using “real world” geographic coordinates. This information is useful in making maps of course, but it is also useful in making decisions about many things such as natural disaster recovery, hazardous waste mitigation, environmental impact studies, epidemiology, criminology, and much more.  Everything has a geographic component that can be mapped.  

GIS: "An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information."

Public Works and Assets employs GIS to analyze and display information in a multitude of ways to provide robust decision support and asset management, as well as maintenance scheduling, data modeling and capital planning.

Want to know more?.....check out some of our resources:

LOJIC (Louisville Jefferson County Information Consortium
DGI     (KY Department of Geographic Information)
ESRI    (Environmental Research Systems Institute)
OGC      (Open Geospatial Consortium)

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MAPS

Note: If you have trouble viewing the maps download the most current version of Acrobat Reader. If the maps do not display correctly (seem to be missing information or have white bands through image) rotating (click the rotate view button) the document will correct the problem.