Let’s say you need to know where water and sewer lines exist relative to property about to be developed on the edge of town. You could trudge down to the city engineering office and request drawings, possibly at a cost or a delay. Or if you’re in the City of Manhattan, Kan. (Riley County), you could punch up the information on your desktop from a public web site. Working together and sharing costs, the city and county have put 36 GIS layers on a web site (http://gis.rileycountyks.gov) to make it available to all city and county employees and the general
