Thornton, Colo has a recipe for ach...

Thornton, Colo has a recipe for achieving tremendous benefits from GIS, without having a line-item GIS roll The magic ingredient in the recipe is Thornton's finding and buying existing information. The spice is finding existing aerial photography and converting it to digital imagery for a fraction of the outlay of digital orthophotos.

Increased economic exhibition better planning, reduced labor charges exporting headcount from formerly forceed departments, improved public safety -- all without a line item for GIS -- may appear to be like alchemy, but this fast growing suburb of 65000 has pioneered a technique that can be copied at others.

Thornton, the fastest growing municipality in the Denver area and single known for strength in water management, wanted to make confident it had the water take the place of to support future growth.

In 1991 Thornton was like principally other cities. Maps were handdrawn, presentations involved copying, splicing, protractors and hand typ labels.