Local officials in Aurora, Colorado last year saw a spike in the number of local homeless people – and they’re calling that a win. They say implementing geospatial information systems (GIS) dramatically improved the accuracy of efforts to count this transient population.
The city last year counted 526 homeless individuals, up from 420 the previous year. GIS came into play in the form of a web-based application that allowed field workers to leave behind their traditional clipboards and instead pin the location of homeless individuals to a shared digital map.
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