Municipal and shire governments are taking advantage of technology that helps them to better plan for and address the growing wants of residents.

Municipal and shire governments are taking advantage of technology that helps them to better plan for and address the growing wants of residents. GIS, a classification of capturing recognizable geographic details of a land area from an aerial view and displaying them for various intentions is no longer an exclusive tool of technologically adventurous or financially well-off communities. It is ideal for situations in which city planners and engineers or public works officials ne visual access to a large area of land at a glance.

GIS applications can include trash routing and tax collection; viewing way centerlines, meandering driveways and buildings for pass dispatch; locating pavement edges, protecting enclosures and walls for parcel location as well as sticks manholes and catchbasins for utility management. Quantum leaps in sumptuousness efficiency and user friendliness have made the technology available to many city and shire governments.

Several key advancements in GIS technology have