The
Geospatial Information System (GIS) incorporates hardware, software, and data
for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically
referenced information. It lets you view, understand, question, interpret, and
visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in
the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. GIS can integrate and relate any
data with spatial component, regardless of the source of data. GIS is
fundamentally used to answer questions, make decisions and can provide powerful
information – not just how things are, but how things could be by mapping
anticipated future conditions.
When GIS is served over the Internet, e-government becomes much more than an
online way to help constituents fill out forms, register to vote, or pay their
property taxes. Internet mapping lets you combine geographic layers, such as
zoning and tax-incentive areas, to see what parts of an area is best suited for
establishing a new business. With drop-down lists and check-off boxes, we can
verify whether rumors of a rising crime rate have any validity, how the
demographics of an area are changing, where the jobs are moving, where the most
environmentally hazardous parts of the area are located and so much more.
GIS is bringing new dimension and new energy to the Information Age.
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Address of
GIS office:
Drawer A
520 W. Main St.
Cherokee, IA 51012
Hours Office is open:
Monday - Friday
8:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Phone Number:
(712) 225-6999
FAX Number:
(712) 225-6484
Office holder name:
Curtis Cockburn
GIS Links:
Sidwell Maps
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