Saturday, June 16, 2007

Whatcom County Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Wondering what the zoning, etc. etc. is on a specific property? Whatcom County has excellent GIS capabilitites online
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a system of hardware, software, and procedures set up to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modeling and display of spatially-referenced data for solving complex planning and management problems that involve data which is spatially referenced to the earth.
http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/pds/planning/gis/index.jsp
Skagit County has the same capabilities w/ IMap:
http://www.skagitcounty.net/GIS/Applications/iMap/asp/iMap.asp

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