WELCOME to Geographic Information System (GIS)

Pasco County GIS is both a division of the Information Technology Department and a county-wide program of spatial data and application development. The Pasco County GIS team is responsible for the development of the County's digital spatial databases and for providing state-of-the-art mapping and data services to County departments, citizens, local governments, and businesses.

 What is GIS?
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer-based system that uses location information, such as land features, census block, address, ZIP Code, utility or State Plane coordinates, to map information for better analysis.

Within the context of county government, GIS refers to a collection of technologies including computer hardware, software, and data that are combined to capture, store, update, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced features. GIS uses feature location to relate otherwise disparate elements while providing a systematic framework for managing location-based data.

More than 80 percent of all information used by local governments has a geographic context. With GIS, the diverse facts and figures of county government operations can be combined into a common database and accessed according to the requirements of individuals or departments. With GIS, any location or point on the map, can become an index to cultural, economic, environmental, demographic, and political information about that location.

With geography as the common denominator, GIS ties data from many different sources into a single base map, incorporates changes as they are entered, and analyzes information to solve specific problems.