Geospatial

News Features

• Top Ten Secrets of Earned Value Management
  

  What every public CIO should know about Earned Value Management.

• E-Vote: Ohio Counties Move To Secure Voting Machine Delivery
  

  Security best practices cannot be adequately documented or enforced when machines are transported and stored in poll worker's homes, work places or automobiles.

• Virginia Tech Implements New Multi-Media Emergency Notification System
  

  Displays are powered by existing network connections using standard Power over Ethernet (POE) technology.

• Alliance Examines Broadband Deployment Impact on Underserved Communities
  

  "Ensuring that broadband remains affordable so that the newest online users have continued access and that the last ones on aren't the first ones off."

• e.Republic's Center for Digital Government Names 2008 Top Web Portals and Applications
  

  The most innovative, user-friendly state and local government portals plus outstanding agency and department Web sites and applications.

• Georgia Consolidates Procurement
  

  State plans to provide a more competitive environment for suppliers to vie for state contracts and a preferential position on its e-procurement network.

• South Carolina Builds Enterprise Social Services Information Dashboard
  

  "We have massive data sitting in government computers that represent pieces of the puzzle. If you put it together we can better understand our children, and our parents and us as humans."

• City of Philadelphia Receives GIS Award
  

  The city built a spatial data warehouse in 2000, followed by enterprise geospatial Web services in 2001.

• Texas "Blue Alert" System to Help Apprehend Suspects in Attacks on Officers
  

  "A powerful tool that leverages the eyes and ears of many toward the apprehension of criminals who threaten our protectors."

• Regional Law Enforcement Data Exchange System Expands
  

  "Individually, none of our towns can afford the number of police needed to keep track of all the activities of an increasingly mobile population of offenders."

White Papers / Case Studies

• City of Philadelphia Receives GIS Award
  

  The city built a spatial data warehouse in 2000, followed by enterprise geospatial Web services in 2001.

• Coalition of Geospatial Organizations Announces Formation
  

  "We intend to begin immediately developing a collaborative advocacy agenda and aggressively pursuing those issues on which we can all agree."

• California Resources Agency Receives Special Achievement in GIS Award
  

  Used GIS technology to develop a geospatial warehouse and Web services for the capture, maintenance, and reporting of geospatial information related to California bond projects.

• Where's the Data? GIS Helps Answer Enterprise Questions, Says NASCIO
  

  "GIS is really a portfolio of capabilities that extends across the enterprise."

• Kathrine Cargo Elected URISA President
  

  "URISA has been and continues to be a great source of inspiration to me in my work as a GIS/Mapping Coordinator."

• Delaware to Map Cancer Incidence Rates
  

  "The people of Delaware should be able to obtain as much cancer information about our state as they can without jeopardizing the privacy of any of our residents with cancer."

• Virtual Alabama Wins Another Award
  

  A computerized database of information superimposed on satellite imagery and aerial photography of all 67 counties.

• NASA Responds to California Wildfire Emergency Imaging Request
  

  Onboard sensor can detect temperature differences from less than one-half degree to approximately 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Salzburg, Austria, to Participate in Digital Cities Initiative
  

  "This type of pilot program will help us better understand how we can create an attractive and sustainable future for Salzburg and its people."

• Alabama Water Systems to be Digitally Mapped
  

  "This map will be a valuable tool for communities across the state. It will help with economic development, water sharing during times of emergency, and even with improving fire safety."

Best Practices

• City of Philadelphia Receives GIS Award
  

  The city built a spatial data warehouse in 2000, followed by enterprise geospatial Web services in 2001.

• Coalition of Geospatial Organizations Announces Formation
  

  "We intend to begin immediately developing a collaborative advocacy agenda and aggressively pursuing those issues on which we can all agree."

• California Resources Agency Receives Special Achievement in GIS Award
  

  Used GIS technology to develop a geospatial warehouse and Web services for the capture, maintenance, and reporting of geospatial information related to California bond projects.

• Where's the Data? GIS Helps Answer Enterprise Questions, Says NASCIO
  

  "GIS is really a portfolio of capabilities that extends across the enterprise."

• Kathrine Cargo Elected URISA President
  

  "URISA has been and continues to be a great source of inspiration to me in my work as a GIS/Mapping Coordinator."

• Delaware to Map Cancer Incidence Rates
  

  "The people of Delaware should be able to obtain as much cancer information about our state as they can without jeopardizing the privacy of any of our residents with cancer."

• Virtual Alabama Wins Another Award
  

  A computerized database of information superimposed on satellite imagery and aerial photography of all 67 counties.

• NASA Responds to California Wildfire Emergency Imaging Request
  

  Onboard sensor can detect temperature differences from less than one-half degree to approximately 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Salzburg, Austria, to Participate in Digital Cities Initiative
  

  "This type of pilot program will help us better understand how we can create an attractive and sustainable future for Salzburg and its people."

• Alabama Water Systems to be Digitally Mapped
  

  "This map will be a valuable tool for communities across the state. It will help with economic development, water sharing during times of emergency, and even with improving fire safety."

Member News

Hyland Software Acquires Liberty Information Management Systems

Hyland Software, the developer of the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite, today announced that the company has acquired Liberty Information Management Systems (Liberty IMS).

State of Minnesota Signs Agreement with Microsoft for Single Email System

The State of Minnesota has signed an agreement with Microsoft to provide a single email and calendaring system for the entire executive branch.

Microsoft and Illinois State Police Collaborate on Best Practices and Information Technology Architecture for Homeland Security Fusion Centers

Architecture to be a model for agencies and departments across all jurisdictions.

Digital Communities Members