Flathead shire Mont.

Flathead shire Mont., planners have adopted a unique approach in building the county's GIS land base map. The Geographic Coordinate Data Base Measurement Management (GMM) programs lay opened by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the University of Maine, and land data maintained at the Montana Department of income (MDR), combined to form a GIS for the shire that had unconventional beginnings.

Flathead County's appeal as a tourist attraction had brought an influx of of the present day residents that strained the county's limited local resources. shire planners needed to be able to proces a large amount of information and pass resolutions to convenient the needs of the population.

Officials in Flathead shire began considering GIS after conducting an extremity evacuation notification exercise at Glacier International Airport. The effort, which required cross-referencing each parcel and proprietor within the area for notification, took nearly 20 days to out and out while a GIS ...