Books in the Applying GIS series

VALUING PLACE AND PURPOSE GIS FOR LAND ADMINISTRATION Improve land records, property valuation, sustainable development, and social stability. Location intelligence is changing the way land administration works to protect and maintain appropriate land use and achieve better economic, environmental, and social benefits. The real-life stories in Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration show how communities, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations implement geographic information systems (GIS) in four key areas:      · Visualizing parcels and property      · Managing land use      · Strengthening climate and conservation efforts      · Addressing land rights, equity, and social justice The book also includes a special section to help you get started using web apps, online maps, dashboards, and other GIS solutions to represent and understand the value of land and property and efficiently manage, edit, and share land parcel data more accurately. Edited by Brent Jones, director of land administration industry solutions at Esri, and Keith Mann, Esri Press. APPLYING GIS The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and suggestions for getting started with GIS.

Discover the geographic approach to fighting crime while engaging citizens. Protecting the People: GIS for Law Enforcement explores a collection of real-life stories about law enforcement agencies successfully using GIS for crime analysis, open policing, and field mobility. Through these stories, this book illustrates how police departments and law enforcement organizations use GIS to enable data-driven crime-analysis strategies and drive decision making in everyday operations.The case studies in this book cover:Understanding data and crime analysisStreamlining improvements to police operationsDeveloping methods for engaging citizensThe book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for law enforcement. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Learn how location intelligence and the geographic approach can improve crime analysis, streamline operations, and promote community policing initiatives.