Prince George, B.C. – A new on line  resource has been launched to help  investors and businesses  make  their  investing decisions.

The  BC Economic Atlas (BCEA) is a mapping tool that will  display  natural  resource data, proximity to  services, transportation,  a major projects inventory  as well as employment and investment information.

Developed by  the Provincial Government,  this  information will be a plus  says Initiatives prince George CEO Heather Oland ” Having digital information available from a variety of  sources that direct  potential investors to communities is critical because  most  communities get   short listed by investors or site  selectors  as the top four or 5  communities  before they are ever directly contacted so  digital  information  and web based information is really critical and this  BC Economic Atlas is another tool, another portal for  investors to find BC and  to find communities within British Columbia.”

She says another  excellent example of  a  digital site that offers community  and  project information   is the Invest North portal  developed by Northern Initiative Trust.

Oland says IPG helped  in the development of the BCEA  and plans to be  keeping  tabs on the  site to ensure  the information is  up to date. “Initiatives Prince George has always had high quality investment information available  digitally and I think we continue to improve it”.  She says examples of the information recently updated includes the  sector profiles, community profile  and the investment guide  ” We  spent some time in the last little while to tailoring those documents to try and  pre-answer as many  questions from investors as possible because we know they look at those first, before  they talk to us.”

Oland says the new BCEA will  be a positive tool “The more ways they can find us as a City through the Province ,  the  Invest North Portal ,  the better.”

You can check the BCEA  yourself by clicking here.