UT Austin Community and Regional Planning

GIS Analysis Examples

Integrating Data - Police Crime Reports and Aerial Photos

Cartography by Nat Brown

Integrating Data - Toxic Release Inventory Data (EPA) and County Outlines

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter

Analyzing Buildable Land Erin Wilhelm, Advanced GIS, Spring 2001

Buildable land with farmland protection Erin Wilhelm, Advanced GIS, Spring 2001

Buildable land with water supply protection Erin Wilhelm, Advanced GIS, Spring 2001

Recommendations for Potential Park Acquisition Areas Round Rock, Texas, 1999

Student team members: Michael Gatto, Joe Gorney, and Kirsten HardingCommunity and Regional Planning Program, UT Austin, Introduction to GIS, Fall 1999

1955-56

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

1966

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

1973

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

1983

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

1991

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

1997

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

2000

Cartography by Barbara Parmenter,

2004

This shows the approximate extent of the 1935 flood over a current aerial photo

Colorado River at Austin, 1951

Gravel extraction at the foot of Austin’s main avenue

More industrial uses in an increasingly minority residential area

Town Lake, 1964

Longhorn Dam, built 1959-1960, to provide cooling lake for power plant

Interstate highway construction further isolates East Austin

Civic Auditorium and new park on lakeshore facing downtown

East Austin, 1995 – improvements and continuing problems