As part of their services to their housing industry
clients, John Burns Real Estate Consulting provides maps and analysis of metro area statistics throughout the United States.
Their consultants had been using Microsoft Map Point and Adobe Photoshop
to create maps, but needed a more robust system that allowed them to get the
clean look they were after without the effort involved in scrubbing the map in
Photoshop.
Interwest’s GIS team installed Esri’s ArcGIS for Desktop,
created a geodatabase with all of their geographic and demographic data, and
created a series of map templates to demonstrate building industry statistics
such as job growth, unemployment rates, affordability, resale price growth, foreclosures,
pre-forclosures, and home sales growth.
Now they are able to quickly create data driven maps that focus on the
content their clients are seeking to make housing industry decisions.
Interwest built models that will
automatically process the data from the company’s SQL database into the
geodatabase which updates existing maps with the current month’s data, saving
the consultants a lot of time each month.
