Patent ID: 8195682

Claim:
A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions for analyzing topographical data, the computer-executable instructions comprising: instructions to receive a query from a user device, the query comprising an indication of a parcel of land and an indication of a planned development; instructions to determine a plurality of data points, each data point representing a source of topographical data about the parcel of land; instructions to obtain topographical data from each of the plurality of data points; instructions to provide the topographical data from each of the plurality of data points to a plurality of cloud resources in a cloud computing architecture, the plurality of cloud resources providing distributed parallel computing and being configured to work in conjunction with each other to synthesize the topographical data from each of the plurality of data points and produce a result indicative of whether the parcel of land can support the planned development; instructions to receive the result processed by the plurality of cloud resources; and instructions to send the result to the user device.