Map Book Gallery

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 your peers in economic development.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

San Diego Central Region Smart Growth Areas
Smart growth is a compact, efficient, livable, and environmentally sensitive urban development pattern. It focuses future growth and infill development close to jobs, services, and public facilities to maximize the use of existing infrastructure and preserve open space and natural resources.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

City of Oxnard Maps
These four maps show much about community development and renewal in the city of Oxnard. The Public Works Projects map shows new developments along with the status of vital capital improvement project activity. The Neighborhoods map illustrates how communities are organized. The Downtown Guide portrays in three dimensions the core of a city, and the Zoning map shows how this California coastal city is geographically situated and organized.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

New Jersey's Existing and Potential Development
This map of existing and potential areas of development within the state was prepared by employees of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection as a planning tool.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Development Through Knowledge reflects the motto of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). The maps focus on human development indicators that are important in socioeconomic research and economic development, such as poverty levels and adult literacy.

Volume 18: Geography and GIS—Serving Our World

GIS Analysis of Wind Data for Economic Development
Cascade County, Montana, use GIS to benefit local government applications ranging from land data management to public safety to economic development.

Volume 17: Geography and GIS—Sustaining Our World

Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA)
This series of maps is produced by the FCEDA to assist marketing managers in the promotion of Fairfax County, Virginia, as a world-class business location.

Volume 16: Geography—Creating Communities

Illustrative Map of Downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, also known as the Furniture City, is located near the lower east shore of Lake Michigan. Ranked by Fortune magazine as one of the top 10 best cities for business in the United States, the city recently has experienced rapid economic growth, especially in the downtown area. This map illustrates new developments, prominent buildings, pedestrian walkways, green spaces, and tourist attractions.

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.