Agenda - Planning Commission - 11/07/2002

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AMERICAN ~~J ~J~ '~J ~ ~ ~' , ,, ASSOCIATION GI$ at Work in the Budd n B Shannon M. A~s~on .... ~_= ................... ~:_~,.~., ~: ~eographic Information System (glS) te&nolo~ b ~ ~ln&s~ensable tool ~ed by ~over~enc a~encms to score, ~e ~d d~splay spau~ da~a ~ubhc poh~ lssu~ such ~ ~'~~~ homeland secunm envtronment~ degndanon, ~d urb~ sprawl have hmghtened pubhc o~ct~s mterest ~n GIS, m~ng ~~~ it one of;odays f~cest-growtn ~nformauon cechnolo~ =s~. ,:=,.~y:.:;. ~,~:...~:~:.a ....... s~stems Changes ~n the ~nd~t~ have conmbuted to &e gro~ of :~,e~; G15, incl.dtn~ th. abili~ to prowl& GIS data ~oa broader ":~~~ audience because ofw~relass technolomes, ~e avaHab]h~ of so'are for less technic~ =ers, =d a decre=e in h=dw=e =d '~ so =e Public ohc ssues such as .... p Y homeland securi , environmental ' T~is image of a potion of the Amscan Eagle denrodation and urban snrawl roa=comteg a dual-mack wooden o , r complete with a 147-~ot drop, at S~ have heightened public officials' G~a~ ~, ill==ates the vi$z~l rewlu~on . . ~ ' ..... of the munidpali~} digital imag~. Scanning mterest m geograpmc lnformahon r ,oZ ao.,sumq con=o~ aJti~, and~cal . _z--- t~lCI z--k_ _m__.. ~n~h are ~te~inanu of image acmrag GIS applications are developed co support ~e ~ncd&ns of In ~e e=ly 1990s, G=nee'sengincering ~d informatioa municip~ agencies. This issue of Zoning News provides ~ · ~s;ems ~rec~ors bec~e fm~i~ wi~ GIS ~d its abili~ to ove~iew of GIS development at ~e municipl level ~d ~e support ~e m=agemen: of infr=tmc~e Ac~ities. The utilization of the GIS by a sm~l suburb~ bulling ~d zoning 10cafion of infr=:rUcmre such = a sidew~k, fire hy&=:, or depar~en[. · ' v~ve.c~ be stored in GIS ~d located on a map. "A=ributes," ' or de~ls pert~Nng to a pzic~ar sidew~k, fire hydr~t, or Building Block': of a GIS ' ' - Great ~ericaTheme Park ~d Gurnee Mills ~e lo~red in ~ ' .. : Gurnee, Illinois, a f~t-growing suburb ~orm of Chic~0. ~ ~n~/~ t~c Gumee Mills, a 1.5 million-squ~e-foot ~scount shopping ..... ~ par~ in ~e U.S., ~e located ne~ ~o major '~teri~s ~d ~ ~ ....... 7'-" ' .sever~ highways se~ing G~nee md ~e reeion. The , D~m the week of November 4 8 o onhne ~o communiws growing population (now at 30,000) and i~ ~ g - ' = ..... a=ici ace in our "~k ~e Aurar" forum an interactive proximi~ to Chicago and Milwaukee m~e it a re ionfl center P P ' ~ cai e t ac arians featureOf n~' News. Sh~non Mms=o g wall' be ~d id location for retail and enmn~nm =a ' . In the late 1980s, Gurnee's engineering department created ~ av~lable to ~swer qu=tions about this article. Go to the maps of ~e village by tablet digitizing. Tablet digitizing is ~e ~ ~A website at ~.planning. org ~d follow ~e lin~ to ~e of a speci~ table with a series of wires that are arr~ged in ~ the "~k ~e Au&or" section. From there, just submit horizonrfl rows and verticM columns. These wires receive sign's ~ your questions about ~e ~ide ~ing ~ e-mail ling The from a gadget simil~ to a mouse, tilled a digitizer cursor. The ~ aurar will replY, posting the ~swers cum~arively on the d~gm~er cursor allo~s map features to be traced and saved ~ ~ website for the benefit of ~1 subscribers. This feature will coordinate data. A hard copy ora map is taped to the tablet ~at ~........ ' fl ~ m when traced re~sters potnt¥of know; locations, gurnee's ~ oe avanam7 r. or sm?~ea ss~es or,?o~?,ve~vs at , , engmeermg department eventuaiy switched from raoler Z] . digitizing to computer aided desig-n (C~)~ techni~uesq for ~ the answers wi~ be saved in an online archive available mapmaldng ~ through the ~A Zoning News webpages.