The City of Bellingham relies heavily on maps and data, known in the industry as a Geographic Information Service or GIS. Over a third of the city staff use GIS daily to perform their jobs and provide services to the citizens and utility customers of Bellingham. Services such as planning, crime analysis, utility management, and customer service rely on GIS as an integral part of their service delivery.
Below is a portion of data maintained by the city and available free of charge from this website. The files available for download are ArcView shape files that have been zipped into an executable extract file.