In East Central Wisconsin, a Land Use Inventory Helps Plan a Sustainable Future Efficient Land Use Planning in Nunavut Presented By: Mai Osama Abd El-Hamied By: Leica Geosystems Web Address : library /reprints/pdfs/arcnews_eastwisconsin.pdf Topic Number: 14 Date: FALL 2003

Smart Growth for Wisconsin is a legislation,enacted in 1999 which requires every village, town, city, and county in the state to be guided by a comprehensive Smart Growth Plan by It helps in managing current and future land use as well as preserve natural resources and the rural character of the region. To support this growth, the Commission began creating a new land use inventory, interpreted from digital aerial photography using ArcInfo and ArcView software from ESRI and IMAGINE OrthoBASE software from Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, performed on four Intel PCs, has been handled by the Technical Services staff at the Commission. E.g. GIS coordinator, a GIS project manager The result of urban sprawl required construction and relocation of USH 10 in the region.

Top: Using ArcView 8.x, the vectoring process is completed by editing arcs of a land use base shapefile. Bottom: Using IMAGINE OrthoBASE software, horizontal control is acquired through the use of an existing orthophotograph to capture ground control points in order to orthorectify the 2000 aerial photo. (Source: Waushara County1992, 2000)

The project addresses the lack of digital land use data The Commission began the project in 2000 and expects completion in The completed land use inventory is in use at counties performing town-based land use planning, such as Waushara and Shawano. It begans by creating  a standard basemap for the land use inventory project, projecting the acquired GIS basemap layers into the Commission.s coordinate system and converting the attribute data to match the Commission.s GIS digital data mapping standards using ArcInfo.  converted the existing land usedata and its attributes to the mapping standards and added them to the database.  The nongeoreferenced data was displayed next to georeferenced data on the computer screen with IMAGINE OrthoBASE software.

GIS technicians wrote a Visual Basic coding routine in ArcView 8.x to populate the land use polygon table. (Top and bottom source: City of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) For more information on this project, contact Trish Nau, East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission ( eastcentralrpc.org), or visit org on the Web. For more information on spatial solutions, contact Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping (toll free in the United States at or outside the United States at ), or visit Leica Geosystems GIS & Mappingat gis.leica-geosystems.com on the Web.