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GIS: A Tool For Improving Community Livability

December 12, 2003 /

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GIS software can help policy makers and stakeholders to make more informed and more effective decisions by relating data with place. GIS can take an overwhelming amount of information – tabular, spatial, or graphic – and display it in a way that makes it meaningful to local government staff, policy makers and the public. By displaying information in layers – each layer with a particular issue – it is easier to understand how issues interrelate.

This fact sheet http://www.lgc.org/freepub/PDF/Land_Use/fact_sheets/gis.pdf contains examples of how communities have used GIS to improve the livability of their communities.

http://www.lgc.org/freepub/land_use/factsheets/gis.html

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