Before there was a City of Dunwoody, I served on the Citizens for Dunwoody board where I assisted in transportation planning and some of that included setting the City Boundaries. As I enjoyed playing with maps and computers, I created my own personal mapping tool with a high definition photo of a city map with underlying plat maps from DeKalb showing every parcel & tax id in the city which could then be used to cross reference against the DeKalb Tax Commissioner for further information. Since those early days, the city now has their own GIS department recording the locations of 100's of different layers of information and much of that information is available on line.
Yesterday a resident was looking for a higher resolution City Council District map than what was publicly available, (maybe he or a friend was looking to run for City Council in the fall?) so I requested staff to review what was available and to create an updated map. They did and it is below.
Dunwoody GIS offers public parcel information and many other odd tidbits of information like stormwater repairs, property value change maps, Tree Canopy, Millennial Population, Fire Hydrant Inspections
DeKalb GIS also provides great information from a County perspective, check it out below.
1 comment:
John,
Those were interesting times with a lot of volunteers who were mostly retired but had a wealth of knowledge based on a lifetime of experience. I remember you and I riding around with the late Dick Drake and just learning from the master.
https://dunwoodynorth.blogspot.com/2019/10/rip-dick-drake-influential-behind.html
We didn't have money to hire consultants but we had a motivated group of folks who got us across the line in the cityhood push. People who did it out of love of the community that was not yet a city.
Tom
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