This year's GIS Day is November 14th! To find an event close to you, please visit www.gisday.com! We regret that we are not going to host a GIS Day celebration here at the Town Hall this year. However, there will be a celebration and a map exhibition at the State House hosted by the State Office of Geographic Information Systems (MassGIS) during that week, and there will also be an open house at ESRI's Danvers Office at 100 Conifer Hill Drive, Suite 305, Danvers MA. Visit www.gisday.com to find more information. To find out what Brookline GIS did last year on GIS day, read on! |
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Join Brookline's GIS Group for GIS Day November 15th, 2000 |
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Celebration at Brookline Town Hall Take a virtual tour of the map gallery at the Town Hall
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ENTER RAFFLE TO WIN BEAUTIFUL COLOR MAPS OF YOUR COMMUNITY! |
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Brookline GIS Day Agenda
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| Sponsors/Supporters GIS Day is sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, US Geological Survey, The Library of Congress and ESRI
Supported by Town of Brookline, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen Town Administrator |
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| What
is GIS?A Geographic Information System (GIS) uses computers and
software to leverage the fundamental principle of geography—that location is
important in people’s lives. GIS helps locate new businesses and track environmental
degradation. It helps route garbage trucks and manage road paving. It helps marketers find
new prospects, and it helps farmers grow healthier, larger crops.
GIS takes the numbers and words from the rows and columns in databases and spreadsheets and puts them on a map. Placing your data on a map highlights where you have lots of customers if you own a store, or lots of leaks in your water system if you run a water company. It allows you to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize your data in ways simply not possible in rows and columns. And with data on a map, you can ask more questions. You can ask "where?," and why?," and "how?," all with the location information on hand. And you can make better decisions with the knowledge that geography and spatial analysis are included. |
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| Brookline
GISGIS was implemented in Brookline about 5 years ago under the direction of the GIS
Steering Committee, and tremendously supported by the Board of Selectmen and the
Selectmen’s Office. Recently, Brookline GIS was awarded Best Municipal GIS in New
England in the category of operational GIS by NE 2000 Committee, sponsored by American
Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ASPRS), and Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Surveyors Associations.
The core GIS group is currently comprised of a GIS manager, a GIS Analyst, and a GIS Technician. It resides in the Information Technologies Department and is responsible for GIS system administration, major data developments, data maintenance, custom programming, project coordination, mapping services for internal departments and the general public, user training, and user technical support. Currently, the town-wide enterprise system is used by Engineering, Assessing, Planning & Community Development, DPW, Water & Sewer, Police, Selectmen's Office, Town Clerk's Office, Public Health, Parks and Conservation, and Historic Preservation. |
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on Display at the Map Gallery:3-D Brookline Assessor’s Neighborhoods Building Inspection Districts Assessor’s Atlas Pages Local and Regional Bike Routes Brookline GIS 2000 Calendar Census Tract Map Topography, Commercial Zones and Municipal Owned Properties Commercial Zones Contours Digital Orthophotography Drug Free School Zones Parcel Map Tiles Floodplains General Town Map Health Department Inspection Districts Land Use Map Historic Properties and Districts Open Space Precincts Public Schools and School Districts Detailed Baker, Devotion, Driscoll, Heath Lawrence, Lincoln, Pierce, Runkle School Districts Maps Proposed Senior Center in Relation to the Distribution of Elderly Population Soil Map Street Atlas Public Transportation Town Properties USGS Topographic Map Wetlands Wireless Communication USPS New Zip Codes Zoning Districts
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