Welcome to the City of Alexandria's GIS web site. The purpose of this site is educate the public about Alexandria's GIS technology. The GIS team strives to bring together accurate, up to date, geographic information in an easy to use format and increase the efficiency of City government. Please spend a few minutes browsing our exciting new features, tools, and maps. For questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this site, please e-mail us at gishelp@alexandriava.gov.

GIS 5 Year Strategic Plan
The GIS Strategic Plan is a roadmap for making best use of the City’s investment in GIS technology. GIS has enormous potential to help the City better understand the populations we serve, maintain our infrastructure, more effectively share and analyze information to make decisions and more clearly communicate with each other  and the public. The Strategic Plan was developed with guidance from a committee of senior level decision makers along with GIS power users and GIS staff, and informed by GIS stakeholders citywide.

Click here to view the GIS Strategic Plan 

What's New

• 2012 Standard Maps are available. For Standard Maps, including Tax Maps, please see our Standard maps page.
• 2012 City of Alexandria Street Map and Spring 2012 GIS Data DVD will be available soon for purchase.
• Our Fall 2011 GIS Data DVD is available for purchase! Please see our Available Data page for more information.
• Document Imaging Viewer now available on Interactive Maps page.

GIS Mission Statement
Enable the City to improve communication and decision-making to ultimately better serve the public through the efficient use of Geographic Information.

What is GIS?
GIS is a technology that links geographic information (features) with descriptive information (attributes). GIS can be described as having multiple layers of data assembled into a digital map. GIS is used to visualize, explore, query, edit, and analyze geographic information.

One of the most valuable aspects of GIS is how data can be analyzed spatially. Spatial querying is the process of selecting features based on location or spatial relationship. The animated image below illustrates how a user can quickly identify all addresses within 500 feet of a Metro stop.

To learn more about GIS please visit www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html.

Our Role in Alexandria City Government
GIS is a Division of the Department of Planning and Zoning. The GIS Division is responsible for identifying geographic mapping and analysis needs for the City. Coordination with many city departments such as Real Estate, Police, Fire, and Transportation & Environmental Services, ensures geographic data is maintained in a consistent way from a single source. Some examples of this successful coordination include the conversion of hard copy tax maps into digital parcels, analyzing population shifts for the redistricting of the Alexandria Public School Board, and development of a snow mapping application that provides the ability to track the City’s snow removal activities.

For more information or any questions you may have, please contact us by email: GISHelp@alexandriava.gov