GSWA has been honored for its recently published handbook entitled "Digital Parcel Mapping: Standards and Strategies for New Jersey’s Parcel Mapping Communities."

Edited by project director Karen Parrish, the handbook was published to help governmental agencies and other organizations to make better use of computers in analyzing patterns of land usage and the impact of zoning ordinances on future development.

The honor, given by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), is the Environmental Achievement Award for an Environmental Publication.

The handbook’s development was underwritten by the Victoria Foundation. Twenty-eight experts in parcel-mapping computer technology contributed sections.

Printed by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, the publication has been distributed to each of New Jersey’s 566 municipalities, 21 counties, and many non-profit and parcel-mapping organizations and individuals around the state.