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Flint Lead Pipe Mapping Project
Map of Flint's Lead Water Pipes (UPDATED 11/7/16)
UM-Flint’s GIS Center has identified and mapped all known locations of lead pipes in the City of Flint. This information is part of the data Flint officials will use to help prioritize where to begin replacing pipes in Flint as work begins on Mayor Weaver’s Fast Start initiative and subsequent replacement initiatives.
If you would like to request the shapefile version of the data, please click here.
About GIS
What is GIS?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) uses computers, associated hardware, people, and software to collect, manage, assess, and visualize spatial phenomenon- essentially helping us to better understand and interact with the world around us. It’s no wonder then that Money Magazine lists GIS Analyst among its Top 100 Jobs in the United States and the U.S. Department of Labor reports that employment numbers in GIS are growing and continued growth is anticipated. The types of analysis that can be conducted with GIS include: transportation routing, crime mapping, hazard mitigation, neighborhood planning, biological assessments, demographic trend analysis, environmental studies, historical mapping, groundwater modeling to name a few.
GISC News
GIS Center Provides Interactive Maps to Campus Community
by Bella Biafore | 01/29/19 | The Michigan Times
Not many people are familiar with what GIS is or how it’s important to campus life–or that we even have a GIS center on campus. Since its opening in 2013, the center has been working with students from the Undergraduate Opportunity Program to bring more awareness to the topic.
UM-Flint Trio To Share Mapping Skills in Washington D.C.
by UM-Flint NOW | 7/6/16
A team from UM-Flint is traveling to Washington D.C. Thursday, July 7, to lend their mapping skills and innovative research experience to a federal government initiative.
New UM-Flint Research Shows Location of Lead Pipes in Flint
by UM-Flint NOW | 2/22/16
The research analyzed the City of Flint’s hand-written records, paper maps, and scanned images to create a complete digital database of all the information available so far about lead service pipes used in the city. Flint Mayor Dr. Karen Weaver plans to use data to target her Fast Start pipe removal initiative.
UM-Flint GIS Center Mapping Flint Water System’s Lead Service Lines
by Robert Gold | UM-Flint NOW | 1/28/16
A team of UM-Flint faculty and staff are working on a project that “will help provide the road map for removing all the lead in the water distribution system” within the city of Flint, said the initiative’s supervisor, Martin Kaufman, PhD.
Mott Grant Advances UM-Flint GIS Center’s Data Mapping Mission
by Robert Gold | UM-Flint NOW | 10/29/15
The University of Michigan-Flint is leading a community-wide online project in which researchers and the public will be able to access a wide variety of data from numerous sources and customize maps.
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