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ARC unveils new
information tool
If you are a business exploring
the Atlanta Region market, you'll need vital demographic and geographic
information such as the location of potential customers, transit lines
and nearest schools.
If you are presenting plans for a specific area of the region, you might
want to visually enhance your maps with aerial photography of the area
overlaid with the corresponding streets and highways.
Now, this kind of information and technology just got easier to achieve
with the Atlanta Regional Commission's new information tool called the
Atlanta Region Information System, or ARIS.
ARIS is a four-volume set of CD-ROMs that blends Geographic Information
System software, data and multimedia presentation resources into an easy-to-use
PC environment. Applications for ARIS include marketing studies, location
analysis, environmental planning and economic development, among others.
"ARIS is a powerful and affordable ttool
for accessing, analyzing, and presenting ARC's extensive geographic and
demographic data," says Connie Blackmon, ARC's chief of support services.
"Our information resources and visualization tools used for regional
planning are now available to the public with this easy-to-use set of
CDs."
ARIS is designed to work with most GIS software, particularly ESRI's popular
desktop GIS, ArcView. For the novice GIS user, a free copy of ESRI's ArcExplorer
is included to make it easy to view, query and map GIS data.
Volume 1 contains a variety of GIS data covering the Atlanta region counties
of Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett,
Henry and Rockdale, as well as the city of Atlanta and 63 other municipalities.
This CD contains over 50 data sets, including Census tracts, streets and
highways, land use/land cover, community facilities, manufacturers, proposed
transportation projects, political boundaries, mass transit
and ZIP codes.
Volume 1 also includes three popular ARC publications in MS Word format:
Employment 1998, 1999 Population and Housing and Atlanta Region Outlook
1999, as well as ready-made PowerPoint maps, photos, Atlanta area video
clips and other multimedia resources.
Volumes 2-3 contain digital aerial imagery of both the 10-county Atlanta
region (volume two) and the 13-county non-attainment area (volume three)
and can be used as a backdrop to ARC's GIS data.
Volume 4 consists of visualization tools and planning products for use
at the local level including ARC's Regional Development Plan and a PowerPoint
presentation illustrating past and present development in the Atlanta
region. Included with this presentation is a collection of digital photographs
that can be used for customized presentations.
For information or to purchase the Atlanta Region Information System online,
visit www.atlanta-data.com or call ARC's information center at 404-463-3102.
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