LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Feature Analyst® Benefits Local Government GIS

Local government agencies, such as county auditors' offices and regional planning commissions use Feature Analyst for land use planning, infrastructure management and environmental research.

Community development organizations and surveyors rely on the software as well, for mapping and analyzing local housing regions and enhancing strategic planning functions.

For example, Feature Analyst allowed Rj Zimmer, GIS City Manager for the City of Helena, Mont., to develop innovative techniques that speed up time-consuming surveying tasks.

In his essay, In Line with GIS: New GIS Mapping Tool for Surveyors, Zimmer said, "Feature Analyst can be programmed to identify objects in raster images, then perform feature extraction at a fraction of the time required to digitize, and at a fraction of the cost of sending crews into the field."

Feature Analyst is the answer to questions that were previously left unknown: How many houses are located within a 1-mile radius of a given point? What is the proportion of pervious to impervious surface area in a given city? Where are our greatest areas of need?

Zimmer, Rj. In Line with GIS: New GIS Mapping Tool for Surveyors. Professional Surveyor Magazine, 2002.

For additional government-specific information, you may want to view the latest promotional videos, including a five-minute workflow, Feature Analyst: Civil Government Demonstration, presented by NCDC Executive Manager, Jason San Souci.

In addition, the Feature Analyst publications section includes white papers, client reviews, and project summary sheets, many of which are targeted specifically at individuals and organizations involved in local government.