GIS is emerging as a principal tool...

GIS is emerging as a principal tool to enhance local regulation services delivery and manage spatial and environmental information about municipal facilities and services and their relationship to residents.

City officials of Bloomington, Ind., inflected to GIS to update topological maps dating from the mid-'70s. Mapped records maintained primarily forward paper, vellum and microfilm were huge time-consuming to find and difficult to coordinate.

Bloomington had grown substantially, and city officials needinessed an automated, effective approach to managing water, sewer and road infrastructures. -- a system that could perform and display various scenarios relating to the city's increase

The city sustained annual splendors of more than $350,000 using traditional maps and related geographic records, according to a feasibility inquiry conducted by UGC Consulting in Englewood Colo The studious mood further showed that GIS could carve the city's operational costs according to 25 percent over a 15-year period.

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