A Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Zoning

Planning departments are besieged with temporal/historical information. While for many institutions historical information can be relegated to archives, planning departments have a constant need to access and query their historical information, particularly their historical spatial information such as zoning. This can be a cumbersome process fraught with inaccuracies due to the changing organizational methods and the extended historical legacies of most municipalities. Geographic Information Systems can be a tool to provide a solution to the difficulties in querying spatio-temporal planning data. Using a data model designed specifically to facilitate the querying of historical zoning information, queries can be performed to answer basic zoning questions such as "what is the zoning history for a specific parcel of land?" This work outlines this zoning data model, its implementation, and its testing using queries basic to the needs of planning departments.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Grantor dc:publisher

Brigham Young University - Provo

Author dc:creator

• Uhl, Philip J.

• Arcmap
• Arcinfo
• geodatabase
• spatial
• GIS
• ordinance
• city
• planner
• code
• enforcement
• land
• grandfather
• clause
• zone
• verification
• time
• space-time
• government
• ESRI
• map
• cartography
• Geography

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-1000