Rising to the Occasion: Planning for and Managing Flood Events

Whether it is an annual spring flood or a flash flood from an intense storm, severe flooding events are a common emergency for communities. Some communities are studying areas that frequently flood to collect information for mitigation plans. Other communities are using online tools to inform residents of road closing or sandbag pickup locations. There are also communities collecting data after the flooding event to ensure that residents impacted by the flooding receive all possible available assistance.
 
This webinar will provide several examples of how communities ate using GIS to plan for, manage, and document flooding events and other emergencies.
 
In this webinar you will learn:
· How communities are planning for future flooding events
· How communities are providing information to residents during an emergency event
· How communities are managing the aftermath of flooding events and emergencies
 
We look forward to your participation and feedback. Please forward to whoever you think might be interested.

A Rising Interest in Emergency Event Support

Webinar – Address Data Solutions: Preserving Local Government’s Most Important Data

A staff member in one GISC community told us that an address is to local government like a social security number is to a person. Businesses, residents, and even the use of a property may change, but the address remains constant. Address data is central to every department, and like a social security number, its value must be protected.
 
MGP hosted two address standardization webinars in the past year which were the two most attended webinars in MGP history from all GIS Consortium members. The follow-up discussions that we have had with community staff confirmed the need for additional tools and resources that would improve the process of managing quality address data.
 
This webinar will feature new solutions that are now available to you to help create, maintain, and sustain the integrity of your address data.

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