With the new year comes a new construction season! As your community continues to grow and new developments are built, your municipality’s GIS will need to be updated in order to reflect new assets and utilities.

Why pay for those updates if you don’t have to?

When developer agreement conversations arise, be sure to include the cost of updating your GIS as part of the budget. Our team recommends budgeting anywhere from 0.5-1.5% of the total project cost to supplement GIS updates. Depending on the project size and utilities that will require mapping, this estimate may fluctuate.

To update your GIS, you can:

Send us a .dwg of project plans in the correct coordinate system. A majority of our clients in the SE Wisconsin region have their GIS coordinate system set to NAD83, but it never hurts to check with your Client Manager to make sure. Please indicate whether this work should be billed to the standard maintenance phase with additional notes highlighting what work relates to the developer’s project. If preferred, we can separate the work on a completely different invoice that is strictly dedicated to the developer’s project.
Send us your construction asbuilt records. Asbuilts will be georeferenced so no accuracy is lost while mapping and updating your infrastructure data.

If your municipality or project developer would like a comprehensive cost estimate for mapping your community’s next residential or commercial development, please send your plans to one of our experts. They can thoroughly examine the project needs and provide a spot-on cost estimate for the work.