Bang for the Buck: City of Tucson Real Estate Division Leaps Ahead with ArcView GIS 3.1

Author: David J. Koss
Organization: City of Tucson Department of Transportation

County-City Public Works Building
201 N. Stone 6th floor
Tucson, AZ 85701
USA

Phone: 520-791-4181
Fax: 520-791-5641
dkoss1@ci.tucson.az.us

Presented by Cheryl Karrer

The City of Tucson Real Estate Division automated 80 36 x 36 hand-drawn real property inventory maps. It would have taken 1,000 worker hours to manually reproduce the maps. COTRE created the new maps in days using ArcView GIS, the existing Pima County parcel base and street network, and an HP 755 plotter. The cost to the department for the ArcView GIS 3.1 license was less than 5 percent of the Division's equipment budget, which is less than 0.1 percent of the division's gross budget. The money saved from this and other projects undertaken is estimated at $200,000-$250,000: a return on investment of over 250 percent.