Archived Industry Notes: Government
Published in 2008

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La Crosse County adds GIS feature to Web site

La Crosse County [WI] recently added a geographic information system function to its land records information Web site.

The new mapping function — also known as GIS — should make the site even more popular with the banks, real estate companies, attorneys, title companies, builders and taxpayers, who accessed the site more than 80,000 times last year.

The new mapping feature is a prime example of how technology can make government more efficient. “Despite cutbacks in staff, we’re now doing more with less,” said Jeff Bluske, director of the county’s Office of Zoning, Planning and Land Information.

The new GIS feature allows people to access things like ownership records, legal descriptions, property locations, assessments, lottery claims, taxes and payments, zoning information and permits filed for wells, sanitation, driveways and erosion control — all from their own computers.

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first published week of: 01/19/2009

Lafayette GIS honored

Lafayette [IN] is being recognized for excellence in building its computerized mapping system, or GIS. Information Technology Director Andy Milam said the city received the award from the Indiana Geographic Information Council. Milam said GIS is a series of computerized maps that hold information pertaining to the city's infrastructure, streets, water and sewage pipes, and fiber optics.

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first published week of: 03/02/2009

Law Enforcement Database Tracks Gang Members Statewide

Massechusetts officials are countering gang growth with a statewide database called MassGangs that collects information about gangs and allows access to information from neighboring jurisdictions. The database breaks the barriers to information sharing that previously inhibited gang investigations.

Massachusetts looked at states like California that have deployed similar systems. Massachusetts decided to partner with xFact, a local software company, to develop an in-house system.

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first published week of: 06/01/2009

Macs Appear on More Government Desktops

When it comes to the question of PCs versus Macs, the enterprise looks much more like the button-down John Hodgman than the comfortable Justin Long - the two actors in Apple’s popular ad campaign. But Apple Inc. has been gaining ground. In a survey of corporate desktop operating system trends published in August 2008, Forrester Research found that since October 2006, use of Apple products among its clients had grown from 1.1 to 4.5 percent.

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first published week of: 02/09/2009

Maine Invests in Collaborative Web Mapping

The Maine Office of GIS (MEGIS), in cooperation with the Maine Library of Geographic Information (GeoLibrary), developed an open web mapping service (WMS) platform specifically to meet this need. MEGIS developed a “production pipeline” comprised of scripts and open-source software that greatly decreases the time it takes to convert imagery to a WMS. The platform provides the service using OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) standards, and relies almost exclusively on open-source software such as the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), Python, and MapServer. The process consists of two parts - preparation of the data to create the WMS, and then a web serving platform to host it.

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first published week of: 03/30/2009

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