The case studies in these slides present the spectrum of benefits-tangible and intangible-that GIS brings to many policy and decision makers.

For details on the case studies please refer to the GIS For Decision Support And Public Policy Book.

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Other projects such as RODS focused on building sophisticated disease models that could more accurately detect and track disease and symptomology. Utilizing data streaming out of hospitals ER’s, labs, and physician offices, RODS has also developed a process by which sensitive clinical data can be shared and analyzed using GIS.

The Rods project in western Pennsylvania is unique from five perspectives:

1. Its main focus is to build models of detection from live data streams of clinical data.

2. The presence of a trusted community network broker based upon trilateral agreements between the scientific community, the healthcare provider, and the public health department (local, state and federal)

3 The system is all digital and requires no separate stand-alone system to3. The system is all digital and requires no separate stand alone system to collect the data.

The system is NEDSS compliant essentially allowing data to pass through filters that protect patient confidentiality and conform to CDC system architectural standards.

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Orthophoto and Planimetric Quality Control

The City and County of Denver acquired six-inch-pixel color aerial orthophotography. Sanborn Mapping Inc. was contracted to provide this imagery and was responsible for recognizing, interpreting, and assigning proper attributes of more than 1.5 million features. The City and County of Denver were responsible for ensuring the data's quality and that it met contract specifications.

The contractor developed an ArcIMS Web site for use of City and County quality control personnel. This Web site allowed staff to perform quality control work from any location with an Internet connection while avoiding costly and time-consuming application development.

The City and County of Denver were able to achieve an unprecedented 99 99%The City and County of Denver were able to achieve an unprecedented 99.99% accuracy rate for the orthophotographic and planimetric data. Also, by utilizing the organization's own staff, Denver was able to save money by not hiring an external quality control vender.

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Map: The final New Market Region Plan Reconsideration prepared by the BOCC used GIS to justify resoning.

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Picture: 18 weighted factors to determine greatest infrastructure needs.

City of Houston, Texas : Water Infrastructure

According to the American Water Works Association, replacing the nation's aging water infrastructure will cost $250 billion over the next 30 years. The City of Houston recognized the importance of replacing its utilities and wanted to manage this process The project had been estimated to cost $180 million in repairs but thethis process. The project had been estimated to cost $180 million in repairs, but the City could not afford it.

The City of Houston decided to make full use of its GIS investment, creating a system called the Water Infrastructure Replacement Prioritization (WIRP). This project was aimed at prioritizing repairs to those water lines in the greatest need, therefore avoiding replacement of unnecessary sectionstherefore avoiding replacement of unnecessary sections.

As a result of WIRP, Houston was able to reduce the estimated $180 million in replacement costs to $59 million spread over a five-year period for 31 separate projects. Through WIRP, Houston has heeded the call of its citizens to manage the City's infrastructure needs within the limited budget that today's economy dictates.

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Picture: Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation area.

When the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (BHINRA) was established, the various organizations involved (national and regional) in decision making were fragmented. The BHINRA needed a unified solution that could aid in the collaboration and decision making efforts.

G SGIS was an ideal tool to support a group-based decision methodology, because it permitted visualization of the complex ecological data as well as the EEG generated from the workshop.

The weight-of-evidence approach involves the development of a framework to capture the relative importance assigned to various factors by panels of experts. An all day workshop was held in order to allow attendees to define the goals andall day workshop was held in order to allow attendees to define the goals and priorities of the EEG according to stakeholder and scientific opinion. Using GIS, the attendees were able to overlay various data layers that characterized each of the selected measures; making the visualization of many spatial phenomena simple and clear. One of the main issues: boating within the BHINRA.

This project was able to show how GIS can bridge the gaps among scientists, policy makers and a multitude of stakeholders by collecting new data incorporating soundmakers, and a multitude of stakeholders by collecting new data, incorporating sound science, and adapting a new methodology that can shape data into a policy-relevant mechanism.

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All tribal nations negotiate with governments. Recently, the Oneida Nation found itself in the position of having to defend its tax-exempt status.

The tribe’s GIS team mapped out the area of the area according to land trust. This includes incorporating road data, reservations boundaries, ownership data, and parcel maps. Using the query tool, the team was able to show themes of tribal-free property, tribal trust, and individual-fee property. The final product was a map depicting the ration of land by tax classification.

Within just eight hours, the GIS team produced results that supported the tribe’s position. The maps easily illustrated the reality- the townships held more land in tax-exempt status than did the Oneida Nation. The strengths of GIS helped the Oneida Nation avoid being overcharged when contracting its services.g g g

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The city of Cleveland, OH is best know for being a manufacturing center. In recent years, the city of Cleveland has began a movement of updating its business processes via technology. One of the first IT systems that the city implemented was citywide GIS. This program was spearheaded by the Department of Public Utilities & Division of Water.

This process of building the city’s datasets proved to be a daunting task. However, with enterprise GIS, and help from the city’s citizens the program proved to be a success. The city employed 45-50 of it’s citizens; training them in basic areas of computer use as well as GIS.

The city and it’s temporarily employed citizens took on the task of converting more than 5,400 miles of water main, 450,000 service connections 275000 sewer laterals, 270 electric feeders, 600,000 parcels, and administrative boundaries into the GIS database.

The city achieved its goals at about the same cost of outsourcing the project. This process allowed the city to facilitate public participation in the decision making process.p

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Mapping derelict and sunken vessels along the coast of Georgia (Department of Natural Resources)

•Dealing with abandoned sunken vessels for several years

•More than 100 sunken boats along the Georgian coast.

•DNR’s Coastal Resources Division (CRD) took on the task of locating, documenting cataloging and photographing wreckagedocumenting, cataloging, and photographing wreckage.

•Utilized Trimble’s mobile solutions with ArcPad

•Developed ArcIMS web site

•Mobile devices streamline the data collection process This handheld technology•Mobile devices streamline the data collection process. This handheld technology significantly reduce in-the-field mapping time and has created more accurate information than with manual filed-mapping methods or simply by using geo-referenced aerial photographs.

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Graphics: DecisionsMap depicting best site for business & Neighborhood Transformation Initiative logo.

•GIS Services Group is part of the mayor’s Office of Information Services.

•Two web-enabled applications have enhanced the community and economic development efforts of the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI)development efforts of the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI)

•The City has made considerable investment in the design of a Unified Land Records System (ULRS) – Focused on the creation of a seamless map layer of real estate parcels, address-integration, inspections, revenue records, land title records, and tax accounts.

•Tools leveraged in data storage, maintenance, and display include ArcSDE, ArcIMS ArcGIS Ser er and OracleArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, and Oracle.

•GIS has played a very important role in supporting the decision process supporting NTI.

•DecisionMaps – an ArcGIS Server w/ Spatial Analyst mapping applications answering questions such as “Where is the ideal place to locate a business or target community?”

•User-centered approach allows iterative process for analyzing site suitability.

•Attach ‘weights’ to certain attributes

•Output is a map outlining the most suitable locations .

NON GIS personnel can use this applications intuitively

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City of Miami, Florida Office of Emergency Management

• Due to the topography of southern Florida, flooding is frequent when the region is hit by a tropical storm or hurricane. Twelve inches of rain from events such as Hurricanes Irene and Leslie caused countywide flooding in Miami-Dade.

•ESRI's ArcInfo and ArcView GIS played a crucial role in the Office of Emergency Management's flood mitigation and planning of the C-4 Canal. This canal was designed to divert excess water from major rain events. Miami-Dade was able to complete the canal just 18 months after flooding had spurred this project.

• Because of the C-4 Basin Initiative, local, state, and federal governments as well as the residents of the basin have saved millions of dollars; these are savings that will continue to accumulate with future disaster events.

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Map in corner represents distribution of AIDS in Georgia.

Georgia Department of Human Resources > Division of Public Health

Responsibilities

•Monitor health in communities

•Develop Public Policy•Develop Public Policy

•Ensure access and evaluation of care

•The division created demographic profiles for different qualities.

•Distributed this demographic data on the web – viewable with ArcReader

•Users of this data can examine how the various measures of health and demographic profiles are related spatially.

•Visualization of demographic attributes helps the Public Health Division to recognize areas in need.

•This information provides a greater understanding on different measures of health and the distribution that theses pattern take over the eath’s surface.

•Decision makers in the health field are now able to better target intervention programs – placing the programs in the optimal location.

•The ArcReader documents were distributed to the eighteen Georgia health district directors and others involved in the policy-development process.50

IDEQ map shows stream/ lake sampling and monitoring locations for 1993 to 2000620006.

•More than 92,000 miles of rivers and streams; more than 1,000 lakes and reservoirs

•Water I one of Idaho’s most important resources.

•The U.S. Clean Water Act requires states to provide and assessment every two years of the quality of all bodies of water and a list of those that are impaired or threatened.

•It is IDEQ’s job to ensure that the water quality meets their designated goals.

•In 2001, IDEQ turned to statewide enterprise GIS to manage its hydrological assets.

•ArcSDE SQL server, ArcIMS

•ArcSDE allowed for integration of disparate data.

•By serving up the department’s data online, the state was able to achieve continuity between regions, and powerful sharing capabilities.

•Also, the state was able to increase transparency by allowing public access to water data through a viewer online.

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Pictured: “Building the Database” – GIS analyses generated twenty-four maps.

In support of a continuing campaign to secure a New York state income tax credit for rehabilitation of historic residential structure, the Preservation League of New York State (PLNYS) launched a GIS-based initiative to quantitatively assess the impacts of two credit proposals before the New York State Legislature.

•The National Trust for Historic Preservations employed the services of KEI Maps to created and manage the GIS database at the core of this work.•Tax comparison would have been impossible using anecdotal data; however utilizing GIS data provided quantitative analysis. •Emphasis on comprehensive data rather than anecdotal•Emphasis on comprehensive data rather than anecdotal.

•Developed database to support goals.•Used to draw comparisons between multiple versions of legislative bills

•Building the database was organized into four phases1. Data acquisition2. Data preparation3. Data analysis4 Reportage4. Reportage

• The database has allowed PLNYS to make better decisions through spatial analysis and management of its data.

• “Creating this database enabled the league to peer into the demographic heart and soul of New York State’s more than 700 National Register Districts for the fist time and provide the league with a unique tool to inform and advance preservation policy.”

“Th d t b ld b d t t bli h it i th t ld d fi th t t th t• “The database could be used to establish criteria that would define areas across the state that are conducive or not conducive to preserving historic properties.”

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