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Take a Tour with Virtual Fairfax

July 8, 2010
OPA 112/10

News Highlights View 3-D buildings, imagery and terrain. Connect with other key databases including tax information and land use. Create your own maps with text, drawings and even add your own 3-D buildings.

More Information View Virtual Fairfax Images on Flickr Virtual Fairfax Demonstration

Virtual Fairfax, a new interactive mapping tool with exclusive Fairfax County information, gives you the ability to access the community in new ways such as viewing:

• Thousands of 3-D buildings in Tysons Corner, Reston and Herndon.
• Terrain and the latest aerial imagery.
• Virtual tours of historic sites and commercial areas.

Using your computer mouse, you can “fly” over properties from any angle, look at photorealistic 3-D buildings from multiple perspectives, view shadows by time of day and date and more. You also can search for county addresses, schools, parks and other places of interest. 

When viewing a property, there are many layers and links with related information:

• Approximate parcel boundaries.
• Tax database with information on property assessment, value, ownership and sales history.
• “My Neighborhood” with information on political jurisdictions, public representatives and schools, nearby parks, hospitals, post offices, police and fire stations, police activity, polling places and more.
• Land Development System with all of the rezoning and redevelopment activities near a given location.

You can also edit maps in Virtual Fairfax:

• Markup and save maps with lines, shapes and text. 
• Create links to or snapshots of a specific location.
• Add your own building models to the Fairfax County landscape. With this capability, proposed developments can be modeled and shown in the context of the existing environment. A Virtual Fairfax photo group has been created on the county’s Flickr site if you want to share your buildings publicly.

Questions about Virtual Fairfax may be sent to DITVirtual-Fairfax@fairfaxcounty.gov. The developers of Virtual Fairfax are also interested in hearing ideas for new features and changes in future versions of the program.

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Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
publicaffairs@fairfaxcounty.gov
To request this information in an alternate format, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711