Keck & Wood will develop a basemap and collect data to help start the City's GIS system

At the beginning of April 2006 the City of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia selected Keck & Wood, Inc. to assist in creating and implementing a citywide geographic information system.  The new GIS will be used to help the City more easily comply with the increasing number of state and federal requirements such as national pollutant discharge elimination system storm water permitting; capacity, management, operation and, maintenance program; and GASB 34.  All of these regulations strongly recommend the use of GIS as a tool to verify compliance.  The GIS basemap will consist of many layers including city limits, land lots, natural water, county limits, parcels, street centerlines and building footprints.  These new layers will be created using aerial photography recently obtained by Catoosa County.  Using the county's aerial photography will allow the city and county to share data more easily and reduce duplication of work, thus saving taxpayer dollars.  Once the basemap is completed, Keck & Wood will begin locating the city's utility structures using mapping-grade GPS and integrating the field data into the new GIS database.

About Keck & Wood, Inc.

Founded in 1954, Keck & Wood, Inc., is a multidiscipline consulting firm engaged in providing a diverse range of professional services in the areas of civil engineering, environmental engineering, natural gas engineering, surveying, community planning, mapping, GIS, and related technical disciplines.  Keck & Wood currently employs a staff of more than 80 loyal employees and maintains offices in Duluth and Carrollton, Georgia, and Rock Hill, South Carolina.