GIS & Mapping

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The Town of Amherstburg GIS department is currently a division of the Information Technology Department. The Town of Amherstburg GIS team is responsible for the development of the Town's digital spatial databases and for providing state-of-the-art mapping, analysis, and data services to Citizens and all Town Departments, including Police Services and the Fire Department.

What is GIS?

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer-based system that uses location information, such as land features, parcel information, municipal addresses, postal codes, aerial photography or simple UTM coordinates, to map information for better analysis. Within the context of municipal government, GIS refers to a collection of technologies including computer hardware, software, and data that are combined to capture, store, update, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced features. GIS uses feature location to relate otherwise disparate elements while providing a systematic framework for managing location-based data. More than 80 percent of all information used by local governments has a geographic context.

With GIS, the diverse facts and figures of municipal government operations can be combined into a common database and accessed according to the requirements of individuals or departments. With GIS, any location or point on the map, can become an index to cultural, economic, environmental, demographic, emergency service and political information about that location. With geography as the common denominator, GIS ties data from many different sources into a single base map, incorporates changes as they are entered, and analyzes information to solve specific problems.

2011 Amherstburg Rural/Subdivision Map(PDF, 1MB)

2011 Amherstburg Core Road and Facilities Map (PDF, .5MB)

2010 Townwide Indexed Roadmap (PDF, 1 MB)

Town of Amherstburg Mapping Fee Schedule and Available Maps (PDF, 0.02 MB)