About Chanel Road

This site is a one-stop shop for information about the Chanel Road neighborhood and the surrounding area.

The goal is to collect useful resources in one place: Fairfax County service contacts, school board information, GIS and map data, development activity, and neighborhood news.

GIS Data

The site maintains scripts that pull geographic data from OpenStreetMap and the Fairfax County ArcGIS REST API. These scripts generate map layers covering streets, buildings, parcels, zoning, floodplains, and active development projects within the neighborhood boundary.

Source data comes from:

• OpenStreetMap – crowd-sourced global map data (ODbL license)
• Fairfax County Open Data – 120+ GIS layers published by the county
• Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN) – statewide data updated quarterly
• Federal sources – FEMA flood zones, Census TIGER/Line, USGS National Map

Contributing

If you have information to add or corrections to suggest, reach out through the community channels listed on the homepage.