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GIS Center UW-Whitewater SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, GIS, AND THE WEB Dr. Eric Compas Director, GIS Center UW-Whitewater GIS Center UW-Whitewater

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Page 1: Sustainable business development, GIS, and the web

GIS CenterUW-Whitewater

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, GIS, AND THE WEB

Dr. Eric CompasDirector, GIS CenterUW-Whitewater

GIS CenterUW-Whitewater

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• 10 minutes – My thoughts• 10 minutes – Discussion in groups• 10 minutes – Sharing ideas

Plan for session

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• $500,000 grant from Economic Development Administration to build tools and services to support business development in southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois

New GIS Center

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• What’s the long view? What type of development do we want in our communities?

• Can land information help?

Current economicclimate

Promote growth at any

cost?

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• Promote business development within Wisconsin that’s sustainable “green” businesses community-building businesses low carbon businesses and so on…

Goal

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• Parcels• Infrastructure

Roads Trails Sewer, fire

• Planning Zoning Environmental priorities

• Imagery

Repurpose our data?

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• Open access to information Increase opportunity for data use

by NGOs and community groups Mash-ups, simple overlays

• Promote and encourage broad use, provide guidance

Access

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• Farm fresh atlas• Green maps

Community-building maps

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• Nanaimo, Canada• Fredericton, Canada

• Google’s “Cities in 3D”program http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/citiesin3d benefits: increased interest in planning, economic

development, reputation as cutting edge

Virtual towns& communities

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• Site analysis that considersmore than just economic factors such as transportation costs, potential client base Availability of ecosystem services Carbon implications Natural Capital’s InVest model

• Crowd sourcing hubs for region?• Mobile application opportunities?

Other

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• Land information organizations and… …economic development corporations? …business incubators? …Wisconsin Economic Development Association? …Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce?

Institutional connections

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• Data sharing policies, cost recovery efforts• Misuse of data, unintended consequences

promote wrong type of development Decrease in appeal of region

• Funding Justify as marketing region, revenue through increased

taxes

Potential issues

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• Questions/issues Potential mashups with other public data? Institutional or legal hurdles? Missing data?

• Discuss at table for 10 minutes• Brief presentation of each group

Discussion

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Feel free to continue the discussionDr. Eric Compas, [email protected]

Thanks!