An innovative software package will potentially save many laborious hours of hand calculation for the county’s Redistricting Committee. The software, called ArcGIS for Desktop, displays data as points on a map, providing users with a way to manage and integrate their data, perform advanced analysis, and display the results on professional-quality digital maps. The maps are based on data from global positioning satellites, the same ones used with consumer GPS systems.The Redistricting Committee includes E911 director Chuck Haston, election administrator Donna Yates, Planning Committee member Robert Collier, and commissioners Michael Martin and George Smartt.The county currently has a trial version of the program, which costs $1,500, but during the meeting the committee members voted unanimously to purchase the software subject to approval from the Budget and Finance Committee and director of accounts Linda Hillis.