GIS also stores information about each feature such as road surface material, park name, parcel number, owner name, and census population figures in a database. The digital features and database are tied together so that a person can perform analysis on the map features. You can now ask; Where is it? What is it? What spatial patterns exist? Who is it close to...? What if...? How many have…?

GIS also allows you to perform spatial analysis, which means you can overlay flood plains on top of parcels and generate a list of all landowners within the flood plain. You can find out how many people live within 500 feet of a feature or how many feet of water pipe was constructed in a corrosive soil region.

GIS technology as a whole consists of trained staff, software, hardware, GPS (Global Positioning Systems), digital data, relational databases, orthophotography (corrected aerial photography). One of the main benefits that the City of Lakewood sees from using GIS is improved management of our organizations resources.

We use our GIS to link feature/data sets together by spatial location or linking and/or joining tables. By centralizing our GIS data, it allows other departments within the city to share their data, therefore every department can benefit from the work of each departments data collection.

For further information or questions about Lakewood's GIS, please contact us by email or by calling our main number - (303) 987-7703.