This site is best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution with at least a 16 bit color pallete. If you have any questions or comments, or a link that you would like us to add to our Links page, send email to the Webmaster . This website is under construction so check back often. A wide variety of the information we use daily can be referred to by its geographic location. It includes distribution and use of natural resources, patterns of land uses, descriptions of infrastructures, property addresses, ownership, regulations and violations, and socioeconomic information such as health, employment, housing and voting habits of people.
Location is often a common denominator among many public agencies and their missions.
Organizations in all sectors maintain information specific to their own needs. Often, this information is related to other organizations, as a result, the importance of sharing this common data is being recognized by many agencies. This information is available in many automated and manual forms such as maps, aerial maps and satellite imagery, but also in many tabular and textual reports. Many new technologies are being applied to geographic information to improve its accuracy, management and usefulness. A major technology, and one of the fastest growing computer applications for state, regional and local agencies, is geographical reference data applied to computer based maps.