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Esri in Redlands has helped create a digital map of the Catholic Church’s global landholdings.
The program, which Esri put together in partnership with the GoodLands project, is meant to help the church take a more ecological approach toward managing its land, Esri announced this week.
GoodLands’ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provides spatial data to Catholic organizations worldwide. Those organizations support worldwide efforts in conservation, health care, education and other areas of concern, according to a statement.
At the same time, Esri’s technology make it possible to create, access and store the data required to map all of the land owned by the church.
Esri is a world leader in GIS technology, which captures, stores and analyzes spatial or geographic data. Its software is used by each of the 200 largest cities in the United States and by more than two-thirds of all Fortune 500 companies, among others, according to the statement.
