GIS integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
GIS allows you to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps reports and charts. A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
A few areas we utilize GIS:
RED
SOX - We represented two property owners who were finalists
in the Red Sox property selection process. As part of the
analysis and presentation we used GIS to show various site
related features such as Regional Southwest International
Airport flight patterns and noise overlay zones.
CITY OF FORT MYERS - The city is quickly moving utility as-built drawings into GIS mapping and database information intended to improve accountability to the public, smarter utilization of available maintenance and capital improvements, and to extend the useful life of public infrastructure. Infrastructure assets include anything and everything a government owns or purchases such as roads, bridges, tunnels, drainage systems, water and sewer systems, and lighting systems.
We have been working alongside the City's GIS department in completing the conversion of theses files.
LEE COUNTY ZONING - Often municipal staff disagree with landowner requests. The Lee Corners commercial planned development rezoning was a request for two fast-food restaurants on a 2 acre corner of Lee Boulevard (arterial) and Lee Street in west-central Lehigh Acres.
Staff
did not feel convinced that the use was compatible with the
nearby residential areas. We used the GIS map to the right
to provide the Hearing Examiner and staff with information
regarding fast-food occurrences in a 5-mile radius. A close
look at the map reveals that there is a high density of
residential "rooftops" underserved by simple, fast and
affordable eating options.
The
map to the right demonstrated that the local road known
as Lee Street was not just another local road serving a
few households. In fact, Lee Street is an important part
of the only road network that crosses the east-west
canal for 2 miles. The canal crossing map demonstrated
that the Lee Boulevard and Lee Street corner is a
collector type of intersection where commercial activity
of a moderately intense nature is appropriate.
The two maps were very effective. While the staff denied the fast-food master concept plan, the hearing examiner and the Board of County Commissioners approved the fast-food site plan. Burger King Coporation is interested in the property.
