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GIS (Maps)

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1. What is GIS?

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

2. Why use GIS?

The City of Pflugerville has new and historical data stored in a variety of formats in many locations. The most current way to integrate the data so that it can be analyzed as a whole and leverage it to make critical business and planning decisions is to use GIS systems.

GIS can integrate and relate any data with a spatial component, regardless of the source of the data. For example, you can combine the location of mobile workers, located in real-time by GPS devices, in relation to customers' homes, located by address and derived from your customer database. GIS maps this data, giving dispatchers a visual tool to plan the best routes for mobile staff or send the closest worker to a customer. This