Mapping Economic Development

You may have seen the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about the Milwaukee 7 (an economic development organization for promoting the seven county region) new webpage, http://www.choosemilwaukee.com. The site even includes a regional web mapping component to show available commercial and industrial properties. This just goes to show how important location matters in economic development and GIS is the tool to use to sell your location.

I'm just surprised that given the number of Wisconsin-based GIS firms, that they chose to go with an out-of-state company to build the application.