Anderson & Associates' GIS experience includes emergency response and E911, utility mapping, school planning and bus routing, facilities management, parcel mapping, overlay analysis, and economic development applications like industrial sites, land use, and land classification analysis.

What is GIS? A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerized marriage between a graphic representation and a textual description of a geographic location. A GIS provides the decision maker with a logical and graphic representation of geographically referenced information.

A GIS can maintain, analyze, and report on: geographical data, such as points and symbols, lines and curves or polygons, attribute data, such as: characters, numbers or dates.

A GIS can provide accurate answers to geographic questions such as:

• Where is a feature located?
• What is it adjacent to?
• What is its relationship to other features?

A GIS provides a powerful, logical, and intuitive means to store, manipulate, and retrieve data. It provides the ability to see on screen or in map form, only those features or objects that meet specific selection criteria. In an instant, you can visually identify features in a geographic representation that would take much longer to find in a printed report.

Anderson GIS Consulting and Design Services

GIS Start-up Services

To successfully apply GIS technology, you should carefully consider and plan for your needs before embarking on system acquisition and application and database development. Our experienced consulting staff offers you several services to support the design of efficient databases, applications, and systems to best meet your needs.

• Orientation Seminars
• User Needs Assessment
• Data Evaluation
• Functional Requirements Definition
• Requirements Analysis
• Institutional Planning
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Cost Recovery Strategies
• High Quality Mapping

Systems and Database Application Design

Our staff have combined their extensive experience in developing and using their knowledge of contemporary database theory to design databases that are highly responsive to each organization's needs and fully integrated with its ArcGIS applications, external models, and system operations. Our design strategies involve:

System Design and Engineering

Conceptual Database Design

Physical Database Design

Application System Design

Hardware Configuration

Map Data Automation Services

Data Collection

Data Interpretation

Data Conversion and Integration

Scanning and Digitizing

Format Conversion

Procedures Development

Pilot Projects

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Independent Quality Assurance Services

Digital Data and Hard Copy Map Publishing

Project Management and Technical Support

For more information about Anderson & Associates' GIS services, visit www.webgis.net.