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The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

View maps created by fellow GIS professionals in the planning and engineering community:

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

Skyscrapers of Central Tokyo
This figure indicates the locations of large office buildings by year. A majority of these buildings during and before 1989 were constructed inside the JR Yamanote Line (Tokyo Loop Line), particularly in the existing central business district such as Marunouchi and Ote–machi.

See additional maps for Planning and Engineering.

Volume 21—GIS—Communicating Our World

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Burn Area Bridge Risk Assessment

In these maps, for each burn area, the topology was mosaicked in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst as a continuous digital elevation model. Digital water droplet tests were performed without having to define watershed boundaries for each bridge. Aerial photos were acquired to confirm the existence of facilities without deploying personnel. The results from the contrasting methodologies—buffer zones versus topographic analysis—were dramatic.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Brazil Petroleum Infrastructure

ArcGlobe has the capability to put many datasets in perspective. This satellite view of the Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo region of southern Brazil appears as a silk screen—the world topography and culture are the raster backdrop. Concessions, platforms, and pipelines are drawn on top as vectors. They show the offshore location of exploration and production areas and the onshore gathering points of refinery and distribution along the coast.

Volume 18: Geography and GIS—Serving Our World

Location Selection for North Sea Wind Parks

Nuon, one of the largest energy companies in the Netherlands, is planning wind parks on the continental shelf of the Dutch North Sea. A GIS application will assist the company in its quest for suitable locations. A myriad of factors complicates the actual selection process. Each factor has its own weight in the decision-making process. Superimposing the data that has been charted on separate maps helps in the selection of suitable locations. On the new interactive and multilayered map, the weight of each factor can be adjusted and a sensitivity analysis can be executed for all concerned parties.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.