A click on any country on the map brings up that county's community profiles - and there are tons of them. The site, for example, lists more than 80 different community profiles for Cook County. That standardization allows users to make meaningful comparisons. Most communities we viewed during our test drive had the full complement of data. We did, however, find some profiles that didn't have some information, particularly for wage rates.
Users can specify a host of parameters in searching the database.
Some of the search options include not only location, but also site and building sizes, distances to air, interstate and rail links, number of truck docks, power source, crane availability, and sprinkler installations. Appropriately, the DCCA site delivers its data with notable lack of visual frou-frou. The focus is on information, not frills. Generally, the site navigates smoothly. This, in short, is a site that doesn't have to resort to e-gobbledygook to make some foggily perceived point.