Map Book Gallery
View maps created by fellow GIS professionals in the planning
community.
Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach
 Modeling Affordable Homeownership in South Australia
Homeownership offers important benefits that enable a household to build wealth through equity appreciation, and it is generally considered a secure form of housing. South Australia has seen significant increases in house sale prices over the past decade, leaving homeownership out of reach for many low-income households.
Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World
 Land Use in the Haut-Rhin
This cartographic representation of land use in the Haut-Rhin was conceived to support communication. The map shows the different types of terrain within the region: plains, hillsides with vineyards, and mountains.
Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World
 Three-Dimensional Automated Urban Planning—Downtown San Diego
For the first phase of the project, KTUA (a planning and landscape architecture services provider) was contracted to guide data collection/development and develop a planning tool incorporating a three-dimensional modeling environment.
Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography
Portland Neighborhood Commercial Market Area Comparisons
The St. Johns/Lombard Plan is a comprehensive area plan for the St. Johns town center and North Lombard main street areas in Portland, Oregon. One of the key goals of the plan is revitalization of the St. Johns and Lombard Street commercial areas.
Riverside County Blueprint for Tomorrow
The Riverside County Integrated Plan (RCIP), "Blueprint for Tomorrow," is a cooperative effort to address the exponential growth and urban sprawl currently underway in Riverside County. The county’s population in 2000 was approximately 1.5 million people and is expected to increase nearly 400 percent during the next 40 years.
Official Zoning Map, City of Roswell, Georgia
Town of Brookline, Massachusetts, Assessor's Map
Volume 18: Geography and GIS—Serving Our World
City of Murrieta General Plan/Zoning Map
The city of Murrieta, population estimated at 72,000, is located in southwestern Riverside County, California. The General Plan/Zoning map provides intricate zoning information to city planners, developers, and the public. The city has a rather unique General Plan/Zoning map that combines both land use and zoning designations to ensure that zoning and general plan internal consistencies comply with state law.
Township Comprehensive Land Use Plans Delaware County, Ohio, was named the 10th fastest growing county in the United States according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Orange Township, Berlin Township, and Liberty Township are the fastest growing townships in the county with growth outstripping all projections. As agriculture gives way to suburban growth, these townships are attempting to negotiate well-designed neighborhoods and commercial developments to retain some of their original rural character.
Volume 17: Geography and GIS—Sustaining Our World
Water System Shutdown Drainage Analysis Using Elevation Data
The urban planning department of Rostock, Germany, is using an urban information system to characterize its state of development and determine potential planning sites, wasteland, and problem sites.
The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.
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.
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