Last September we hosted our most popular solutions webinar of all time on the topic of Address Standardization.  Address data is central to every department and serves as a core function of local government. Creating an address standard and roles for governing your address data is the best way to ensure everyone is on the same page.

This webinar will demonstrate how community staff came together to assess and clean-up address data.  We have also developed a new tool to help compare different address sources to our GIS addresses.  This tool pin points exactly if and how addresses differ.  Several communities have been inspired by the September webinar and have taken tremendous strides in standardizing, comparing and reviewing their address data and they are excited to share their stories.

What you will learn:

• The value of a good address
• How to empower community staff to adhere to an address standard
• How to calculate the accuracy of your community address database
• Workflows to help clean existing data issues in your enterprise systems.

We look forward to your participation and feedback. Please forward to whoever you think might be interested.

In the Midwest, winter brings its own unique set of challenges to local governments.  As the temperature drops and snow begins to fall, snowplows hit the road, the likelihood of severe weather events increase, and roads take a beating.  Leveraging GIS as a resource for assisting staff with managing these events can help mitigate the impact a harsh winter season has on both staff time and community resources.  This webinar will demonstrate several methods and technologies that are currently available in your community to help reduce your winter woes.

Emergency responders such as Police, Fire, Public Works, and Health aim to serve their communities best by providing coverage where it is needed most. GIS analysis can help departments identify where they are currently providing coverage and where there may be gaps in service to help maximize efficiency and help staff understand a community’s level of service to their residents. Not only can this analysis help define important police beat and fire response boundaries, but it can also help optimize yard waste pick up, insect spray zones, snow plow routes, and other area-based services to reduce time spent and save money.

What you will see:

1. Restructuring Police Beats based on real data
2. Identifying zones with critical emergency needs
3. Plan routes and coverage to enhance efficiency

In every community in the GISC Consortium there is a wealth of institutional knowledge about assets, property information, street conditions, etc. Problems occur when only one person or department knows an important piece of information about an area or when someone retires without documenting these important pieces of information. The challenge is getting this knowledge from a single person and their memory, and into usable forms so each staff member can obtain as much information as they possibly can. This webinar will demonstrate different methods of getting data from the people in the know into easy to use platforms. Examples will range from how to get utility information out of field worker’s heads, to how to get any piece of information about an address documented so all staff know as much as they can about a property.

What you will learn:

• How to use the ESRI Collector Application to make utility edits
• How to use Access Databases to enable all staff to add important information about a property
• How to extract data from AutoCAD and import it directly into GIS
• How to create workflows to get important information into GIS

We look forward to your participation and feedback. Please forward to whoever you think might be interested.