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Geographic Information Systems
GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems.
NIRPC utilizes GIS
technology to meet the comprehensive requirements of
Transportation Planning,
Environmental Resource Planning, Land Use Planning, and
economic development initiatives. Realizing the
importance of collaboration in these planning domains, NIRPC employs a variety of data that
has been used in
the development of the 2040 Comprehensive Regional Plan.
GIS offers the
ability to combine geographical
features with tabular data to assess
real-world problems.
Increasingly,
geographic data are being used to
enhance the decision-making processes across many
agencies.
GIS helps
to inform all decision makers in the
Northwest Indiana region.
A large portion of GIS data NIRPC utilizes comes
from the
IndianaMap
state data framework, which is supported by Indiana
legislation and was created due to the need for accurate state-wide GIS data. In addition,
data is collected from other sources and used in the NIRPC GIS.
GIS projects at NIRPC have included a regional land use inventory,
motorized and non-motorized crash and
safety data analysis,
demographic and economic data analysis, traffic count
display, and various other projects
that serve to help inform the public of our region's changes
and challenges.
The GIS Specialist at NIRPC
is Matt Hay, and he can be reached at
mhay@nirpc.org,
or by dialing extension 108.
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