The Tyler Edens application is an important financial and permit enterprise system that allows the city easily track finances and permit status. The application will only function efficiently if it has good base information such as zoning districts, addresses, and owner information. This information is readily available but requires the tools within the GIS to combine this information into one table. The GIS tools also clean up the County provided assessor owner information to assure owners within the city of Highland Park has correct street names. The GIS office annually creates a flattened import file that is used to keep the Edens data current.

A second role of the GIS is providing the layers for the interactive map within Edens. This map shows parcels, buildings, and utilities. By using the map, users scan interactively select properties and see the related records for each property. This makes workflows more efficient as users do not need to manually search by addresses.

A final support process of the GIS is creating the impervious values for each property. The impervious areas used to asses a storm water fee for water billing customers. Without GIS, the Edens application would not contain much of the valuable information it now contains and would create more frustration for users trying to use the application.