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Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

Using 3D GIS for High-Rise Buildings and Growth Development —Las Vegas added more than 27,000 new housing units between 1999 and 2004—basically, 2.13 new residents every hour, around the clock, and a new housing unit every hour and 36 minutes. The rapid population growth and the demand for living space have created an explosion of downtown mixed-use residential development.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

City of Middletown, Connecticut
Tax Map 28
This map is prepared for the inventory of real property within the city of Middletown, Connecticut, and is compiled from tax maps, recorded deeds, and plats.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

GIS of County Address Map Series for City of Carson, California
This series of 57 maps provides information about parcel lines, permits, easements, zoning, and a variety of redevelopment area and overlay boundaries all in a large-scale format that facilitates discussion with applicants across city hall's front counter.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Comprehensive Planning—Town of Vinalhaven Island, Knox County, Maine
Twelve full-size maps prepared for Vinalhaven Island’s Comprehensive Planning process. Geology, soils, surface and groundwater hydrology, land cover, wildlife, marine resources, and land use are represented. The maps provide the town with a comprehensive collection of information, all of which is relevant to planning the future of the island.

Volume 18: Geography and GIS—Serving Our World

Land Use by Parcel
The city of Phoenix, Arizona, Planning Department uses portions of this land use map to assist neighborhoods in comprehending their own development patterns and give them a better understanding of what their neighborhoods need to improve their services and composition.

Volume 17: Geography and GIS—Sustaining Our World

Municipal Demarcation Board,
in conjunction with Salmo Consulting Inc., has worked closely with a multitude of stakeholders to identify the current landscape status and potential project impacts in a region of western Alberta, Canada.

Volume 16: Geography—Creating Communities

Fairfax County Cadastral Map 107-4
This map illustrates the use of more than 30 layers of data, symbology, and annotation and is the result of Fairfax County's multiyear effort to convert its existing hard-copy parcel maps into a digital GIS format.