Projects
Some our recent project include the following:
Water/Wastewater Conversion Project
This project began with the customization and modification of an existing utility geodatabase in order to better represent the specific features found in the system. Scanned construction drawings were georeferenced to the County base map, then water and sanitary sewer mains, valves, fire hydrants, manholes and other utility network features were digitized into the GIS. Available data was added with the source reliability added for each record. Standard maps were created for each departmental group and symbolized according to their needs
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Metro Parks Land Information
One responsibility of a large Metro Parks organization is to keep accurate records of the 960+ parcels that are contained within the Park system. Over the past 60 years, parcels have been purchased, leased, granted and claimed but detailed information was kept in individual files according to acquisition name. With the aid of County records and GIS base maps, the Metro Park's GIS now contains accurate parcel information with purchase records linked to the parcel for efficient retrieval.
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Metro Park Hillshade
A Metro Park organization was considering adding Hillshade views of their 10 main parks to their published maps. As a pilot project, TIN overlays were generated from both contours and LIDAR points that were available on the State data clearinghouse. Hillshades were then created using ESRI 3D Analyst. Several different processes were performed with settings and detailed procedures documented so Park personnel could recreate the hillshades if desired. Future projects may include generating 3D maps for hikers, staff and contractors to enable better planning.
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Field Staff Mobile Maps
GIS as an application outside of the office can be affordable. This project focused on developing a solution so that Field Maintenance staff that were not used to having computers in their trucks could reap the benefits of the Office GIS. Fortunately, ESRI has an ArcMap extension called Publisher that allows a more skilled GIS technician to create/publish a map for use outside of the office. With costs only for a laptop and the software extension, water/wastewater maintenance crews were able to have a user friendly GIS application loaded on their laptops. The bonus was that scanned construction drawings were linked to the maps and easily accessed which eliminated the need for the crews to come into the office when more detailed information was needed.
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