This story map displays photographs and provides background information for landmarks and other locations of interest in East Baton Rouge Parish. This catalog of landmarks is part of an initiative to fulfill an action item of the FUTUREBR Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

This story map displays photographs and provides background information for locations of outstanding scenic beauty in East Baton Rouge Parish. This catalog of scenic views is part of an initiative to fulfill an action item of the FUTUREBR Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

Baton Rouge's unique past has shaped the city that we live in today. The layout of the city's streets, the arrangement of prominent government and religious structures, the clustering of businesses, the distribution of residential neighborhoods, and the placement of parks and schools all speak to the long term processes of urban growth. Society invests tremendous effort in creating its urban centers and citizens develop attachments to those places. It is the investment of human effort that stimulates a sense of place and allows individuals to develop strong feelings about their home city. Sense of place is constantly reinforced by contact with the common, everyday landscapes that surround us. In Baton Rouge, the two principal university campuses, the state government complex, along with various historic neighborhoods and structures all stand as perpetual reminders of the city's past. Many familiar and, at the same time, unique landscape features of Baton Rouge shape our sense of place.

Much has been written about the distinctive buildings that come to mind when Baton Rouge is mentioned, but what of the larger districts and neighborhoods? Residents generally are most familiar with their immediate surroundings or those places where they work and play and these surroundings ofter constitute more than a building or two. Children comprehend their immediate neighborhoods and those who move about a city come to know and develop ideas about the city's larger units. Geographers and planners like to think of cities in terms of these larger assemblages

A story map showing various points of interest from the Downtown Baton Rouge area

A listing of web services published from the authoritative East Baton Rouge Parish Geographic Information System (EBRGIS) data repository. Services are offered in Esri REST, and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Mapping Service (WMS) or Web Feature Service (WFS) formats.