GIS Planning solutions

Promote your location

GIS Planning offers customisable online data tools for your website to help promote your region, attract investment and nurture existing businesses for retention and expansion.

Our range of solutions includes our flagship interactive GIS Planning location analysis software, our six Intelligence Components, which are standalone interactive data tools to embed on your website pages, and our beautiful turnkey data microsite templates.

Introduction to GIS Planning

Who uses GIS Planning?

  • Investment promotion agencies, economic development organizations, and chambers of commerce
  • Consultants and advisory firms
  • Independent and in-house company site selectors

Attract businesses looking to start up, expand or relocate to your location

GIS Planning’s tool drives more investors to your region by providing them with the data they need to make critical location decisions. The mobile-friendly online tool invites them to research and analyse interactive information on communities, business, workforce and available properties. Offering this data makes it easier for them to choose to invest in your area.
GIS Planning’s mapping interface invites users to visualize complex data around businesses and commercial properties

GIS Planning’s mapping interface invites users to visualize complex data around businesses and commercial properties

NEW! Offer website visitors virtual tours of your top features

Showing off the most important features of your location is easier than ever with our powerful, new cloud-based ZoomTour software. Add text, images, video, maps and data to build interactive tours on any theme you like, from your region's industrial parks to talent attraction to your tourist top 10s - or whatever else you'd like to explore.
With ZoomTour, you can create as many themed virtual tours as you like, to focus attention on your location’s most important features

With ZoomTour, you can create as many themed virtual tours as you like, to focus attention on your location’s most important features

Gain a competitive edge over other countries, cities and regions

Investors research locations online before they make contact by telephone or email. Our six standalone Intelligence Components build interactive data tools into your investment promotion website to ensure you are providing visitors with robust, reliable data to help them make smart location decisions.
Intelligence Components are standalone interactive data tools that can be easily embedded on your website page

Intelligence Components are standalone interactive data tools that can be easily embedded on your website page

Engage potential investors with a data portal microsite

Our series of beautiful turnkey templates based on best practice design make it easier than ever to feature interactive data tools that improve SEO, attract interest from new and returning website visitors, and keep visitors engaged on your pages for longer periods of time. We’ll add your branding colours, logo, and images along with our suite of data tools to ensure your new mobile-friendly microsite blends seamlessly with your overall marketing.
Add your branding, images and logo to your choice from our series of turnkey data microsite templates

Add your branding, images and logo to your choice from our series of turnkey data microsite templates

Produce more compelling marketing materials

Complex data can be overwhelming to website visitors, so GIS Planning data tools make information inherently visual to improve engagement, recall, and resonance. Information is presented in attractive customised heat maps with layers, infographics, charts, and graphs that are easy to share on social media or export for use in proposals, reports, email, slide decks, or trade show collateral.

Rely on a trusted partner

GIS Planning has over 20 years of experience with economic development data tools online. Our GIS Planning software was the very first to take investment promotion and corporate site selection online. We have built a loyal customer base representing over 17,000 cities in 44 US states, as well as international expansion across Canada and into the UK, Switzerland, France, Spain, Sweden and Germany.

Track visitors and find new leads

GIS Planning offers clients powerful website analytics to help you understand what's important for investors, so you can promote your location more effectively. The multi-tiered analytics allow you to see which companies are looking at your online web tools, what search criteria they are using, and which properties and communities they are researching. This intel helps you increase leads and improve conversion rates.

Testimonials

Sometimes when you see a particularly good use of technology, you wonder how things were done before the technology was available. GIS Planning's online mapping coupled with site selection and demographics is one of those technologies whose time has come.

Chris Steins

CEO, Urban Insight

Düsseldorf is one of the most successful German cities when it comes to attracting FDI. Our team at the Office of Economic Development regularly presents investment opportunities in core source markets and supports companies from all over the world in successfully setting up their businesses in Düsseldorf. GIS Planning is an exciting and helpful new tool for us. With GIS Planning we can even more effectively provide our core target group of business development managers and location scouts with correct and up-to-date information on specific strengths, focuses and developments of our local economy. And what is even more important: Potential investors can access this relevant information anytime and anywhere!

Theresa Winkels

Head, City of Düsseldorf Office of Economic Development

We have truly valued our relationship with GIS Planning over the years. Their professional support staff are always there to assist us with our communities, site selection clients, and project managers need on a local, national and global scale.

Ricky McGee

Manager, Georgia EMC