Frederick, MD., has made it easy for consumers and government staff to get GIS mapping data about the city thanks to a new digital do-it-yourself service.
Officials launched MapFrederick.city about a month ago. The cloud-based website takes the work off the desks of city workers and lets people look up the information they need on their own. Before, if people wanted zoning data for a project, for example, the city had to assign staff to assemble the information and send it off as a shapefile or feature class, said Matthew Bowman, the city’s technology manager....continued ...