Sunday, January 08, 2006

Hayward's online Geographic Information System

The City of Hayward has a very useful, online geographic information system (GIS) of interest to residents and businesses. The web site is here: http://gis.hayward-ca.gov/

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an essential tool for city planning departments, and provides non-experts with access to the same sets of data as used by the professional planners.

An exceptional ability of the Hayward online GIS is the ability to show aerial photography for various years. Hayward has year-by-year data between 1999 and 2004. The color aerials for 2004 are amazingly sharp, and well worth checking out.

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