Table of ConTenTs

Facility Floor Plan

President’s Message

About ESRI-MUG

Schedule At-A-Glance

Grid Schedule

ESRI Session Descriptions

Program Abstracts

Speaker Bios

Exhibitor & Sponsor Profiles

Program Advertisements

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esri-MUG presidenT’s MessaGe

Welcome to the 2008 ESRI-MUG conference. We are pleased to be hosting this year’s conference at a new venue for us—The University of Delaware Conference Center. Because we are holding our conference

on the campus of a university, we are including a number of new features that are geared towards involving students. We will be hosting a Careers in GIS panel discussion, a Careers in GIS booth, as well as featuring a number of student and faculty presentations during the conference program.

This year’s conference keynote speakers are Christian Carlson from ESRI’s Charlotte office. He will be speaking on Wednesday morning will be talking to us about product developments from ESRI and future directions in GIS. On Thursday our luncheon speaker will be Lee Epstein from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. He will have some timely words for us about the health of the bay and its future and how GIS can contribute to its monitoring and management.

On Thursday morning, we will have a panel presentation from state and City GIS representatives. The panel will include Barney Krukoff from the District of Columbia and Mike Mahaffie from Delaware as well as prepared material from Andy Rowan of New Jersey and Dan Widner of Virginia. The panel will be moderated by board member Gary Rockwell from the Government Mapping Group.

I am really excited about this year’s technical presentations which cover a wide range of topics. I would personally like to go to all of them, but like you, I will have a difficult time choosing between tracks. We have scheduled the presentations at 30 minute intervals so you can bounce between tracks if you would like.

ESRI staffers will be on-hand to introduce the exciting changes in GIS technology, focused on the latest 9.3 release. They look forward to sharing improvements in areas such as data management, visualization, analysis and dissemination, especially relating to Server technology.This conference would not be possible without the strong support from the vendor community. Please take time to visit each of our vendors and talk with their representatives.

I hope you have a wonderful time at this year’s conference that will reunite friendships and provide exposure to our GIS user community. I also would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the ESRI-MUG officers and board of directors for their on-going contributions, invaluable experience, and assistance, and to the people at ESRI for their continued support of this wonderful organization.

Enjoy the conference.

Brendan Ford

ESRI-MUG President

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The ESRI Mid-Atlantic User Group (ESRI-MUG) is a multi-disciplinary organization of

users applying GIS technology and applications in both private and public areas.

ESRI-MUG is committed to assisting members within our geographical extent

(Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, and West Virginia)

to identify and educate users regarding GIS trends, ESRI product development, local/regional

applications, and events of interest.

Our annual conference and local meetings as well as our web site and newsletters serve to bring together our members to

see demonstrations of ESRI products and showcase local applications of GIS technology. Our goal is to foster

collaboration among users and monitor industry trends to stay current and informed. We welcome all interested members

with a focus towards those using, or planning to use, ESRI products.

Join us to:Network with a community of your peers in the GIS field;•

Attend conferences offering innovative presentations that cover the vast applications of GIS and ESRI technology;•

Stay current with emerging GIS technology and the latest in application development using programs like ArcGIS, •

SDE, ArcObjects, and ArcIMS; and

Find solutions and have fun.•

ESRI-MUG Board of DirectorsElections for ESRI-MUG officers will be held during the conference with results announced at the business meeting on

Friday.

Board of Directors’ Meetings are held by conference call the second Monday of each month. Come join us and get

involved! Contact Sue Hoegberg (SHoegberg@Dewberry.com) or Brendan Ford (Brendan.Ford@fairfaxcounty.gov) for

more information, dates and times, etc.

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TUesday, oCTober 288:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Clayton Lobby Continental Breakfast and Registration for Pre-Conference Workshops

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshops by ESRI

Room 121 GIS Analysis Techniques and Tools (Using Spatial Analyst)Geri Pepe

Room 123 Introduction to ArcGIS ServerOlena Smith

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Room 120 Lunch for Pre-Conference Workshop Attendees

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshops continued

2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Clayton Lobby Exhibitor Set-up

Wednesday, oCTober 298:00 a.m. Clayton Lobby Conference Registration Desk Opens

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Clayton Lobby Continental Breakfast and Visit with Exhibitors

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Room 101A Welcome Remarks and Keynote AddressChristian Carlson, ESRI

9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Room 110 Doctor’s Office

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Clayton Lobby Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (see grid for details)

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Room 101A Lunch & Visit with Exhibitors

1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (see grid for details)

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Clayton Lobby Refreshment Break with ExhibitorsSponsored by PBS&J

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (see grid for details)

5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Clayton Lobby Reception with Exhibitors

ThUrsday, oCTober 30

8:00 a.m. Clayton Lobby Conference Registration Desk Opens

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Clayton Lobby Continental Breakfast and Visit with Exhibitors

8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Room 110 Doctor’s Office

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Room 101A Panel Discussion: State of the StatesBarney Krukoff, DC GovernmentMike Mahaffie, Deleware

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Clayton Lobby Refreshment Break with ExhibitorsSponsored by Pinnacle Mapping

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (see grid for details)

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Room 101A Lunch, Business Meeting & Keynote AddressLee Epstein, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (see grid for details)

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Raffle Prize Drawing & Conference Adjourns

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Transportation Network Analysis with ArcGISPart 1: ArcGIS Network AnalystPart 2: ArcLogisticsMatt Kennedy

Using ArcView GIS and Google Maps to Support the 1000 TREES Initiative Julia Brokaw, Gallows Run Watershed Association/Palisades High School

Development of a High Availability Enterprise GIS in Prince William CountyOvidio Rivero-Bartolomei, Prince William County

Utilizing Business Analyst for Strategic Marketing and Site Prospecting Shannon Rose, McCrone, Inc.

An Ecological-integrity Assessment of the New Jersey Pinelands—Nicholas Procopio, NJ Pinelands Commission

Serving the Middle Tier: A WEB based GIS Application to serve the Enterprise Qiaomei Fu, Fairfax County, VA

Spatial Intelligence to Enhance Decision Making in Business of GovernmentSergei Andronikov, GMU

GIS Support for the Secure Border Initiative (SBI)Shawn Gravatt, Engineering-Environmen-tal Management, Inc.

Using ArcGIS Server to Manage the Development of the Charles County, MD Sewer System GISEric Stetser & Pat McLoughlin, Spatial Systems Associates

Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI ApproachSimon Moss, PA Consulting Group

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ESRI Online Content and Data OfferingsPart 1: ArcGIS Online ServicesPart 2: ESRI Community DataRachel Weeden

Building Efficiency and Competitiveness through Socio-Geotechnology: RouteSmart Provides the Edge in PittsburghLeonard Huggins, City of Pittsburgh

Mobile Asset and Emergency Responder Management with ArcGIS Server—York County, SCBrock Kingston, Latitude Geographics

Integration of Geospatial Technology and Enterprise Content Management: Spatially-Enabling Business Processes and Content Management—Steve Beck, Johnson Mirmiran & Thompson

Prince William County Service AuthorityJim Owecke, Earth Vector Systems

WebGIS: Jumping on the ArcGIS Server BandwagonJayson Brennen, CDM

Increasing the Efficiency of and Adding Value to our Enterprise by Improving Access to Publicly Available GeoSpatial DataJessica Gould, CH2M Hill

Building a Utility NetworkAndrew Smart, geographIT

data sharing Using Location Intelligence to Support Decision MakersHank Garie, GeoAnalytics

Expanding GIS Capacity Across Governments with Map Services: The New Data Sharing ParadigmSam Wear, U.S. Geological Survey

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ESRI System ArchitectureTy Fabing

TRIP—Trail and Recreation Information PortalAdam Conner, Geo Decisions

Measuring and Mapping Real Estate Transfer TaxesMegan Heckert, Avencia, Inc.

Emergency Services Using Video Capture TechniquesPatti Rockwell, TGMG

Internet DataViewer (iDV)Tom Tiner, Civil Solutions

Needs Assessment and Implementation: A Targeted GIS Implementation for Berlin, MDJames Garrity, Salisbury University

Improving ALS Response IntervalErik Johnson, DC Fire & EMS Dept.

Migrating from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server—Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, GABrock Kingston, Latitude Geographics

esri & Google Enhancing Megan’s Law Through GISRichard Rehmann, Civil SolutionsImplementing Google Maps in an

ESRI Environment—Mario Field, D.C. Government

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Introduction to ArcGIS Server and Image Extension for ArcGIS ServerKen Gorton

Election Day Incident Mapping and Automated AnalysisMegan Heckert, Avencia, Inc.

Delaware’s Criminal & Highway Analysis Mapping for Public Safety (CHAMPS) applicationChad Lauerbaugh, GeoDecisions

Mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia NegroKrista Heinlen, Cartographic Modeling Lab

Using GIS to Monitor and Report ADA ComplianceGreg Slater, Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA)

Cadastral Mapping in the Geodatabase: Accuracy Expectations vs. Realities of CostWilliam Wetzel, The Sidwell Company

Careers in Gis Urban Applications of Intelligent Transportation SystemsSamuel Mwabira-Simera, Morgan State University

Development of Large Scale Planimetric, Topographic and Orthophoto Base MapsDavid Weaver, Applied Geographics, Inc.

Careers in GIS Panel DiscussionModerator Scott Warner, Avineon

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ArcGIS Mobile 9.3Part 1: Introducing the New ArcGIS Mobile Application for Windows MobilePart 2: The ArcGIS Mobile SDK for BeginnersTom Swanson

Mobile Travel Decisions: Cost and Travel Time Analysis in a Multi-Modal City—Garima Vyas, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Quality Control in a Global EnvironmentPatti Rockwell, TGMG

Parcel Map Reporting in Web ApplicationsBen Dwinal, BAE Systems

forclosure analysis in northern Virginia—Charles Gerlach, Northern Virginia Community College

CAD to GIS Transformations Using Data Interoperability ExtensionBill Dickinson, Exceptional Software Strategies (1 hour)

Issues with ArcGIS Server 9.2 and Non-ESRI customized Tools—Christine Vandeyar, Montgomery County Police

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Wednesday, october 29—room 120 10:45 aM - 12:15 pMTransportation network analysis with arcGisMatt Kennedy

ArcGIS Network Analyst:1. GIS users who need routing and network analysis tools can use the Network Analyst extension solve drive-time analysis, optimum driving routes, and new at 9.3, sophisticated vehicle routing problems. Whether using these tools in ArcMap, creating geoprocessing models or publishing services for use over the Internet, there are a variety of ways to implement Network Analyst. This session will focus primarily on the new functionality, as well as these different deployment options. 45 minutes.ArcLogistics:2. ESRI offers a complete solution for solving routing and scheduling problems that will improve fleet efficiency. Customers in local government can see benefits in areas like property inspections and public works using their own street data, while those in private industries can use a third-party street network for delivery and customer service applications. This session will present an overview of the latest ArcLogistics release using real-world workflow examples. 45 minutes.

1:45 pM - 3:15 pMesri online Content and data offerings Rachel Weeden

ArcGIS Online Services: 1. ESRI provides a family of Web-based resources to enhance and extend the ArcGIS user experience. A wide variety of content (including World Street Maps, imagery, etc.) can easily be incorporated into many different types of GIS applications, and this session will provide an overview of the content and services available, as well as popular use-cases. 45 minutes.ESRI Community Data: 2. Comprehensive datasets including demographics, business data and consumer spending enable organizations to better understand the issues they face and make more effective decisions. Not just for commercial business use, the ESRI Community Data catalog can benefit many industries, including local government, education and non-profit organizations. This session will give an overview of the datasets that ESRI offers and show examples of how they can be integrated into GIS projects. 45 minutes.

3:30 pM - 5:00 pMesri system architecture Ty Fabing“Enterprise GIS system architectures have changed significantly over the past couple of years. Much of this is

due to new IT technologies including faster server hardware, faster WAN and wireless networks as well as more efficient GIS applications with new functionality such as leveraging tiled map caches. The ability to scale an Enterprise GIS to support many more concurrent GIS editors and viewers has become much easier and more cost effective than was previously possible. This GIS architecture workshop will examine how IT trends such as SOA, new security methods, server virtualization and Citrix systems can be applied to improving Enterprise GIS systems. New technology and functionality introduced with ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.3 version will directly impact how GIS groups can architect Enterprise GIS system both today and in the future. This workshop will look at the geodatabase replication services introduced @ 9.2, the Mobile ADF development environment, ArcGIS Server Map Cache, and ArcGIS Image Server, to see how they can be applied to improving the performance, maintenance and distribution of GIS information through your enterprise.” 1.5 hour session.

Thursday, october 30—room 120 11:00 aM - 12:30 pMintroduction to arcGis server and image extension for arcGis serverKen GortonAre you interested in ArcGIS Server but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’ve worked with ArcIMS before and want to know what ArcGIS Server can offer you. In both cases, this is the session for you! You will learn how to make your maps, globes, and other GIS resources available to others by publishing them on a server. This will include a look at the new Image Extension for ArcGIS Server. You will see how to create Web applications with ArcGIS Server Manager without having to write any code. 1.5 hour session.

2:00 pM - 3:30 pMarcGis Mobile 9.3Tom Swanson

Introducing the New ArcGIS Mobile Application for 1. Windows Mobile: Providing mobile-based GIS functionality to end users has become even easier at the 9.3 release with a variety of new out-of-the-box capabilities. In this session, users will see how easy it can be to deploy mobile applications to enhance an organizations’ mobile workflow. 45 minutes.The ArcGIS Mobile SDK for Beginners:2. Using the enhanced software development kit for ArcGIS Mobile, organizations can create and deploy focused applica-tions that can be deployed on a variety of mobile devices. This session will provide an introduction of the Mobile SDK for those interested in getting started with ArcGIS Mobile development. 45 minutes.

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Wednesday 10:45 aM - 12:15 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: Natural Resources

Using arcView Gis and Google Maps to support the 1000 Trees initiativeJulia Brokaw, Gallows Run Watershed Association/Palisades High SchoolThe 1,000 TREES project is a goal to have 1,000 native hardwood trees planted by students and community members in the Palisades School District. The TREE SQUAD is a group of Palisades High School students who are members of the Gallows Run Watershed Association in Bucks County PA. They are spearheading the effort by raising and distributing the trees. They are documenting and promoting their project using ArcMap GIS and Google Maps.Each time a tree is distributed, the location where it will be planted is plotted in GIS using ArcMap. A shape file is created and then converted to a KML file using a Visual Basics script downloaded from the ESRI website. The KML file that is created is uploaded to the Gallows Run Watershed Association website where community members can click on the link. This launches Google Map with the 1000 TREES overlay. This allows the community members and students to see how their trees are contributing to the ongoing process.This presentation, provides the step by step process from determining the location of the tree plantings to making the data available as a Google Map overlay on the Gallows Run website. It is presented by Julia Brokaw, a Junior at Palisades High School.

an ecological-integrity assessment of the new Jersey pinelandsRobert A. Zampella, Nicholas A. Procopio III, Mariana U. Du Brul, John F. Bunnell, New Jersey Pinelands CommissionThe purpose of the Pinelands ecological-integrity assessment was to evaluate the ecological status of the entire 938,173-acre New Jersey Pinelands Area (Pine Barrens) and the ecosystem that it represented as of 2002. This assessment was conducted at three levels of an ecological hierarchy, including the entire regional upland-forest and wetland landscape, aquatic systems and associated watersheds, and freshwater wetlands and adjacent upland areas. A Pinelands ecological-integrity score was determined for every 10x10-m habitat cell by averaging the landscape-, aquatic-, and wetland-drainage-integrity scores. Pinelands habitat, which included upland forest, wetlands, and water and non-habitat, including upland agriculture and developed land, covered 82% and 18% of the Pinelands Area, respectively. Fifty-one percent of the Pinelands Area fell within the highest ecological-integrity class (90.1-100%). This class made up 62% of all Pinelands habitat. Less than three percent of the area displayed scores less than or equal to 50%. Results of the assessment can be used to evaluate current Pinelands management-area and zoning designations, identify areas best suited for clustering development, and provide a regional basis for the review of individual projects. Other possible applications include development of habitat-conservation plans, the identification of important areas for acquisition, preparation of cumulative-watershed-impact assessments, and as a comprehensive evaluation of wetland integrity throughout the Pinelands. The methodology used in the assessment also provides the means to reevaluate the ecological integrity of the Pinelands as new data become available.

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Gis support for the secure border initiative (sbi)Shawn Gravatt, engineering-environmental Management, Inc.engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e²M) provided comprehensive wide-ranging environmental planning support to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on the Congressionally mandated construction of primary pedestrian and vehicle fences along the southwest border.e²M’s support included preparing Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), Environmental Assessments (EAs), biological surveys, cultural resources surveys, wetland and water of the United States delineations in support of jurisdictional determination (Section 404 CWA), Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 consultation, agency consultation and coordination, scoping and public meetings, and Phase I Environmental Site Assessments covering 525 miles of proposed pedestrian and vehicular tactical infrastructure. Due to the mandated timeframe to construct the border fence, all tasks were successfully completed under an extremely expedited schedule.e²M’s GIS business area actively supported this effort through the development and analysis of various critical GIS products related to the proposed tactical infrastructure along the border. As part of the NEPA process, various constraints associated with the project were analyzed through the use of GIS and multiple map series, which were produced to support a large team of biologists, cultural resource specialists, and environmental specialists. In addition, interactive GIS maps were generated to depict geospatial data and photographs collected in the field thereby demonstrating their relationship to other environmental resources.

room: Clayton 125Track: Enterprise-Local Government

development of a high availability enterprise Gis in prince William CountyOvidio Rivero-Bartolomei, Prince William CountyDevelopment of a High Availability Enterprise GIS in Prince William County.Since the roll out of its Enterprise GIS Database in the spring of 2006, the Prince William County Enterprise GIS has been steadily growing in the number of users and applications that depend on it on a 24/7 basis for their operation. After the initial implementation, the PWC GIS staff was quickly faced with the need to scale its GIS system to satisfy the increasing demand for data and applications. The current system supports more than 80 desktop connections, in addition to several web applications that serve more than one thousand county employees and the general public. This presentation outlines the process PWC undertook to develop a high availability system to minimize downtime in contingency situations such as hardware failures, or when doing software upgrades and database schema changes to its production geodatabase. Several server and database configuration options were considered and/or tested with the goal to produce a system that could provide the highest availability possible with a reasonable return on investment. Several alternatives were considered including solutions from the software vendor and third party products. The solution finally chosen uses native features of the enterprise DBMS, in this case Oracle and its DataGuard utility.

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Wednesday 10:45 aM - 12:15 pM

room: Clayton 125Track: Enterprise-Local Government

serving the Middle Tier: a Web based Gis application to serve the enterpriseQiaomei Fu, Fairfax County, VASince its’ inception in the mid 90’s, Fairfax County’s GIS has grown into a mature enterprise implementation. Each year over 600 unique users use ArcGIS at either the view, editor or info level. Those users do everything from making basic maps to performing sophisticated analysis. The GIS office has also put into production several WEB mapping applications. These applications are simple to use and provide users maps and spatial data about county related facilities and activities. The applications have literally millions of users each year. Both the large ArcGIS user base and the strong WEB presence have made Fairfax’s GIS a tremendous success however the GIS management felt there was still a group of users yet to be served, a middle tier if you will of users who needed more than a simple WEB application but didn’t have the time or need to invest in become an ArcGIS user. To that end, Fairfax County implemented a product called OnPoint from Orion GIS (now Rolta) called OnPoint to put advanced GIS functionality in the hands of the non traditional GIS user. Using OnPoint the county has rapidly developed and implemented several advanced GIS web applications and compiled impressive user numbers. This presentation will focus on the product, the applications implemented, the development time and in-house skills required, and the interface with core ESRI products. A demonstration of the application will also be given.

Using arcGis server to Manage the development of the Charles County, Md sewer system GisEric Stetser and Pat McLoughlin, Spatial Systems AssociatesCharles County, MD has experienced significant growth over the last 3 decades due in large part to its proximity to Washington, DC. Associated with this medium and high density development, significant infrastructural investments were made in the public sewer system. The County diligently required hard copy as-builts as each expansion was made, which over time, had grown to a collection of approximately 15,000 pages. Under EPA requirements, Charles County Utilities needed to develop a system wide sewer map to support its maintenance and operations activities and turned to SSA for assistance. It was decided that the County needed to have real-time access to the new GIS data as it was being created as well as the source drawings as quickly as possible. It was further evident that the Utility staff members hold detailed institutional knowledge critical to the success of this project. The Utility’s long range desire was to gain access to the system while in the field via wireless web-browser technology. The solution that best met these goals was an ArcGIS Server mapping system with customized workflow management and collaboration tools specific to this project’s needs.

room: Clayton 123Track: GIS in Business

Utilizing business analyst for strategic Marketing and site prospectingShannon Rose, GISP, AEGIS – McCrone, Inc.This presentation will discuss how ESRI’s Business Analyst extension for ArcGIS can be used for strategic marketing and site prospecting. It will present an overview of the Business Analyst data sets and tools, and discuss some of the ways the software extension has been used for strategic marketing and generating new business opportunities. The presentation will also include a brief case scenario synopsis of locating potential new store locations based on data provided by the client, best performing existing stores, demographic information, drive times, and site suitability analysis.

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spatial intelligence to enhance decision Making in business of GovernmentDr. Sergei Andronikov, George Mason UniversityCurrently we are experiencing an explosion in the availability of computer-based tools to visually represent the digital geographic, locationally-based information. Imagery, GPS and GIS technology start to play an important role in our common life and business activities. Companies as ESRI, Intergraph, Oracle Spatial, Google Earth, MS Virtual Earth started to provide the tools for visualizing geographic features allowing not only scientific community but any individual to envisage and picture the spatial patterns at a world scale. Today practically anyone can go on-line and create a map according to his own interest and desire. But the tools will not work by themselves. They have to utilize and rely on digital data that have to be accurately collected, compiled, and packaged. Also, to move further we need to start focusing more and more on analytical and decision-making part of our day-today business operations exploiting the vast depository of digital data and GIS tools available. Managers of any levels, directors, executives need to start plugging in more vigorously this powerful digital spatial component into their decision-making. It will enhance and dramatically improve the accuracy, reliability, and meticulousness of their decisions. Geospatial Analysis has to become a vital operational necessity within the government operation and management. A presentation demonstrates examples of efforts and challenges in applying geospatial data into governmental decision making. Data accuracy and errors propagation as well as spatial analytical approach as a part of local government decision-making are discussed.A role of educational institutions as an Executive Education within George Mason University for governments and businesses that provides training program in the form of Executive Certificate in “Spatial Business Intelligence” is demonstrated. A training program that consists of a series of one-day seminars and focuses on enhancing business and government decision-making using spatial data and Geospatial technology is outlined.

business benefits of Gis: an roi approachSimon Moss, PA Consulting GroupThis presentation will provide an overview of a methodology codified in the ESRI Press book “Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach”, which enables you to build a robust ROI-based GIS Strategy/Business Case. This end-to-end methodology addresses a means to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of decision makers & the rest of the business; in addition to defining the quantifiable benefits. In addition to helping to secure suitable budget, this methodology sets forth a framework for successfully delivering the benefits the ROI-based case describes, ensuring sustainability of the GIS initiative and the success of the technology-related investment.Tools and templates are also made accessible to support this methedology at www.esri.com/roi.

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Wednesday 1:45 pM - 3:15 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: Utilities

building efficiency and Competitiveness through socio-Geotechnology: routesmart provides the edge in pittsburghDr. Leonard Huggins, City of PittsburghAfter five years of application of RouteSmart for (ESRI’s) ArcGIS to refuse and recycling collection in the City of Pittsburgh, the City remains competitive and efficient in delivering residential service at a rate and a level of parity that is unparalleled. Without RouteSmart routing technology the City would not have retained jobs subjected to managed competition under Act47 in 2005. But the human input in delivering routing data: identifying unique routing scenarios and facilitating continuous improvements in routes through unendingly feedback was also as paramount to success. This combination of social and technical resources enabled the City to reduce collection routes from 54 in 2002 to 44 in 2003 to 34 in 2007 while eliminating 27 positions and reduce the fleet by 30%. Regular rerouting and updates allow the City to balance actual generation capacities with vehicle capacities. In 2007, the City signed a joint municipality contract with an adjacent municipality and rerouted its refuse collection enabling the borough to save thousands of dollars from private hauling. This paper identifies five key steps in the technical routing approaches employed by the City as well as five key social parameters that were incorporated in enabling RouteSmart to help the City compete.

prince William County service authority—Quickly deploying Mobile Gis/GpsJim Owecke, Earth Vector SystemsWith a 27% population growth rate Prince William County Service Authority (PWCSA) must quickly manage the ever-changing GIS layers for critical facilities. To assist with this challenge PWCSA recentlty implemented CartoPac Enterprise Solutions from Spatial Data Technologies to deploy mobile GIS/GPS. Now field inspectors can collect GPS location and facility information anywhere in the county with a simple, easy-to-use application which incorporates a powerful relational database engine. In addition, this data is transferred and updated directly from ArcMap/Oracle databases. See how PWCSA has empowered their field staff with mobile GIS/GPS for a fraction of the time and cost of traditional application development strategies.

building a Utility networkAndrew Smart, geographITThis talk will cover the creation of a Sanitary Sewer GIS network from digitizing engineering drawings to implementation of a geometric network accessed through and enterprise SDE. From the SDE environment the sanitary sewer network is available to users through an ArcGIS server web application that includes all network components—system attributes, traces, hyperlinks to original drawings and relationships in the network—as well as geoprocessing analysis tools.Specific Points Covered in this talk:

Process for creating GIS datasets from engineering drawings. •Geodatabase design considerations for capturing information to build a geometric network. •Moving data into a enterprise geodatabase •Considerations/Challenges for serving data in a ArcGIS Server Web Viewer including supporting hyperlinked •images and network relationships. Replicating current business process through a GIS environment. •Using the network in a web and desktop environment for viewing and geoprocessing.•

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room: Clayton 125Track: Web Based Emergency Response

Mobile asset and emergency responder Management with arcGis server—york County, sCBrock Kingston, Latitude GeographicsManaging mobile assets and emergency responders via web-GIS brings with it the challenge of unifying multiple technologies and the promise of flexible, cost-efficient information and data. Using their existing Motorola Astro25 radio network, York County, SC chose ArcGIS Server to form the hub of their server, GIS-based AVL system. Learn more about the challenges and triumphs the county encountered in hardware, data management and software development.

WebGis: Jumping on the arcGis server bandwagonJayson Brennen, CDMMany communities and utilities are facing the decision of if and when they should jump on the ArcGIS Server bangwagon. With past successful investments in ArcIMS and other web environments, many are wondering what enhancements and additional value ArcGIS Server provides. This presentation will answer many of the questions communities are asking in relation to “making the switch” to Web-based ArcGIS Server applications. In addition, it will detail how ArcGIS Server can be used to bring your GIS environment to the next level by implementing solutions that are customized to meet the needs of every user. This includes the needs of Public Safety, municipal, and utility officials.

room: Clayton 125Track: Data Sharing

expanding Gis Capacity across Governments with Map services: The new data sharing paradigmSam Wear, U.S. Geological SurveyThe expansion and growth of web map services provides a new and exciting means for government to share and publish large amounts of geospatial data which in previous years may have been difficult or resource intensive for end users. Earlier data sharing approaches required users to access and download individual datasets from clearinghouses and data warehouses, or equivalent sites offering similar functionality. Current technology offers users a wide range of options to “consume” data rich map services (commonly offering dozens of data layers) in a variety of map service formats including Web Map Services (WMS) and ArcImage Service among others. Map services can be consumed on either the desktop or fused with other web map services. This paper will provide an overview of ongoing efforts within the U. S. Geological Survey (Reston, VA) to establish key map services and framework data layers which will be incorporated into The National Map (TNM) and Geospatial One Stop (GOS). It will provide an overview of how local governments supporting map services can contribute to the TNM and GOS. It is widely recognized that the increased availability of local datasets and web mapping services contributes significantly to supporting many government functions. Examples of several U.S. metropolitan area web mapping services, as well as selected statewide programs to inventory local map services will be highlighted and discussed.

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Wednesday 1:45 pM - 3:15 pM

room: Clayton 123

Track: Enterprise Implementation

integration of Geospatial Technology and enterprise Content Management: spatially-enabling business processes and Content ManagementSteve Beck, ECMs, BPMs, PMP, GISP, Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT)Geospatial technologies are now mainstream components of an overall enterprise IT framework and are integrated into a wide variety of line-of-business (LOB) applications. Examples include: integration of GIS databases with legacy property and tax assessment data via GIS/CAMA systems; implementation of public utility infrastructure field data collection and inspection systems through the integration of GIS, GPS and portable computing devices; and incorporation of GIS data with customer databases to perform market analysis. Integrating geospatial technology with LOB applications and databases adds tremendous value to those LOB systems while substantially enhancing organizational productivity.Enterprise content management (ECM) holds significant promise as another effective solution for organizing and managing the vast amounts of “unstructured” content that organizations generate through daily operations. Traditional LOB applications have focused on the more structured content of organized databases, but it is this “unstructured” content, which falls outside the realm of enterprise databases, that often plays a key role in strategic decision-making and maintaining efficient operational environments.This presentation will demonstrate how geospatial and ECM technologies can be integrated to provide an enterprise operating environment that maximizes the benefits of unstructured content to the organization while minimizing the cost of maintaining and managing this content.

increasing the efficiency of and adding Value to our enterprise by improving access to publicly available Geospatial dataJessica Gould, CH2M HILLCH2M HILL, an employee owned global leader in consulting, design, engineering, construction and operations, has approximately 500 GIS users in the US. All of our staff uses publicly-available geospatial data to help our clients solve some of the world’s most challenging projects. Typically, GIS staff obtained these data on an ad hoc basis and no consideration was given to structured enterprise geodata management to store, organize, or distribute the data to other possible users within the company. This resulted in duplicated time and effort and a larger than necessary impact on our IT resources. To address these issues our company invested in building an enterprise GIS to store and distribute publicly-available data to our user community. Our enterprise GIS includes Enterprise Geodatabases to store the data along with an ArcGIS Server Web Mapping Application to distribute the data. We also created standard operating procedures and best practices for data maintenance. This work has been extremely beneficial to our firm, our staff and our clients. This paper will present the approach used to complete and maintain the CH2M HILL enterprise GIS.

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Wednesday 1:45 pM - 3:15 pM

room: Clayton 123Track: Data Sharing

Using location intelligence to support decision MakersHank Garie, GeoanalyitcsExecutive leaders in the private sector and government at all levels are beginning to embrace the concept that location is an integral part of knowledge management. Issues, events, problems and opportunities all occur in places. Knowledge of the existence of events, business transactions, or government polices and the subsequent quantification of performance or impact is of little value without knowing “where” things occur. Consider: Organizations do business somewhere. Their employees and customers come from some place. Inputs must be received from and outputs must be delivered to some place. Economic and financial performance and environmental and social conditions are inherently geographic whether localized, regional, or global. Furthermore, issues and activities that occur in a particular place rarely occur in a vacuum, but affect surrounding people, ecosystems, and communities.Business Intelligence enables organizations to measure, manage, and make decisions that optimize performance. This enables organizations to achieve efficiency and to affect positive economic, financial, environmental, and social outcomes. Predictive Intelligence supports decision making by building on previous experience, metrics, relevant variables, and circumstances to model future outcomes and create new and innovative value and results.

Spatial, or Location, Intelligence adds the geographic dimension to knowledge management through the sourcing and cleansing of business data and the integration of analytics and visualization to enhance and complete Business and Predictive Intelligence. Spatial Intelligence allows issues to be viewed and analyzed in a community context, allowing understanding of complex relationships, exposing new opportunities and alternatives, and improving decision making.

This presentation will showcase several practical case study examples where Spatial (Location) Intelligence is being used to by executive decision makers to address important business functions. Examples will include the management of fixed and mobile assets, domestic security, siting new business locations, health care and disease tracking, and environmental compliance and reporting. Each case study will stress efficiencies gained, reduced costs, and improved decision making as a result of including location dimensions in the analysis. Participants will see the power of Location Intelligence in action; and glean lessons about organizational and technical considerations necessary for success.

Wednesday 3:30 pM - 5:00 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: Web Based Applications

Trip—Trail and recreation information portalAdam Conner, GeoDecisionsThe Trails and Recreation Information Portal, or TRIP , Application was developed by GeoDecisions in conjunction with Houston Engineering for Carver County Minnesota. Carver County’s GoCarverGo website and initiative has as its goal encouraging recreation and exercise. Trip was created to educate the citizens of Carver County about the abundance of places and activities for recreation in their area. One of the major goals of the project was to create a simple, familiar and uncomplicated user interface that would allow ‘non-gis’ users in the public an easy way to access the data in the application. Taking full advantage of ArcGIS Server 9.3 technology, the JavaScript Api and the dojo tools it is built around allowed for the easy creation of this interface. The TRIP application allows users to: identify trails, parks, and photos on the map and Search for parks, and trails within a specified radius of an address. The application uses a combination of dynamic and tiled map service layers to increase performance while also keeping important layers constantly updated.

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Wednesday 3:30 pM - 5:00 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: Web Based Applications

internet dataViewer (idV)Tom Tiner, Civil SolutionsAs communities develop framework layers and review/automate existing business practices, a common obstacle becomes the mechanism to distribute this information to a variety of end users. Determining the appropriate data access for both cross department data sharing, as well as public distribution often hinders an actual implementation.This presentation will provide the audience with a web-based solution that covers the majority of functionality that your typical end user requires. These capabilities range from multiple searches, data queries, reporting, map generation, to data extraction procedures. A backend ‘administrative’ panel allows the system administrator to easily create new sites to restrict information, modify accessible functionality. update feature classes and/or change symbology.This methodology can be implemented in a number of ways to overcome the hurdle of data distribution where an internet connection is all that would be required to access the GIS functionality. This common interface will reduce the learning curve of end users and provide an economically feasible method for GIS data dissemination in a controlled environment.

Migrating from arciMs to arcGis server—atlanta regional Commission, atlanta, GaBrock Kingston, Latitude GeographicsHelp, my web-GIS developer left! Custom code to perform database linking, reporting, search, dynamic symbolization and more – how do we port this over to ArcGIS Server? Learn how the Atlanta Regional Commission made the careful move from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server while maintaining full consistency with a legacy application combining demographic, transportation, land use and environment planning components.

room: Clayton 125Track: Economic Development

Measuring and Mapping real estate Transfer TaxesMegan Heckert, Avencia IncorporatedPhiladelphia’s Department of Records has been tasked with providing regular summaries of deeds, mortgages, and real estate transfer taxes, categorized by property type. This presentation will discuss the challenges DOR faced in preparing these summaries and how they addressed these challenges, including development of an interactive mapping and analysis website to provide users with rich functionality for search and analysis of the data.

needs assessment and implementation: a Targeted Gis implementation for berlin, MdJames R. Garrity, ESRGCIn the Spring of 2008, with the direction and assistance of a Salisbury University Master’s in GIS and Public Administration cooperative student project lead by James Garrity, the Town of Berlin transformed itself from a small community government with substantial historic investment in GIS, but little benefit from it, to a community whose staff were consuming geographic information daily. Berlin, MD had a large selection of local data, created since 2002, a powerful GIS workstation and one ArcGIS 9.2 (ArcView) license. They lacked direction, staff skills and knowledge of their needs and potential uses of GIS. This presentation recounts the Berlin, MD Needs Assessment and Implementation project plan, the process and an evaluation of the results of this collaboration.

Capitalizing on existing resources, and combining the functionality of ESRI ArcGIS for cartography and data maintenance, and Google Earth for data visualization across the organization, this small but targeted GIS implementation has been well received and drawn attention from local officials, consultants and academia.

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Wednesday 3:30 pM - 5:00 pM

room: Clayton 125Track: ESRI & Google

implementing Google Maps in an esri environmentMario Field, DC GovernmentOn September 26, 2007, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra announced that the District Government is partnering with Google, Inc. to provide district residents with easier access to district programs and services. To help achieve this initiative, DC GIS has launched several internet solutions utilizing Google geospatial technology, including web mapping applications, and geospatial data (KMZ Google format) delivery services. DC GIS has taken the District of Columbia’s comprehensive geospatial data and Google, Inc’s innovative technology to create a custom Google Earth Globe for DC government. Google DC’s familiar interface enables users of any technical sophistication level to interactively use GIS data. There are over 200 layers available to District employees along with the added ability to load additional agency GIS data. This session will discuss and demonstrate Google technology in the District’s GIS program, and discuss issues and benefits of the integration of Google Earth and Maps into a ESRI shop.

room: Clayton 123Track: Emergency Response

emergency services Using Video Capture TechniquesRay Yourgalite, TGMGThis presentation addresses a 911 conversion project using mobil video technology to capture, verify and qa/qc the addresses and information needed. It also shows how the byproducts from this technology can be used for other applications when the project is completed.

improving als response intervalErik Johnson, Rafeal Sa’adah, DC Fire & EMS Dept.The goal for first paramedic on the scene is 8 minutes or less 90 percent of the time per NFPA 1710. When city-wide response performance was hovering around 80% in early FY 2006, the Chief tasked us with deciding where and when to add paramedic resources.We mapped the incident locations in ArcMap and extracted them by Station Areas. We then aggregated the performance by those areas and displayed the results in a standard format in maps and in a table. We then chose the areas that could best benefit based on the insufficient performance and the number of patient contacts that could be improved. We then re-assigned some units and established new ones at those stations.City-wide ALS performance reached a high of 91.9% in July 2007. The year-to-date monthly average is 89.5%. Using GIS has helped us to sensibly choose the best places to locate our limited resources in order to improve service to the public that we serve.

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room: Clayton 123Track: Emergency Response

enhancing Megan’s law Through GisRichard Rehmann, Civil Solutions, a division of ARHIn 1994, the New Jersey legislature passed Megan’s Law authorizing local law enforcement agencies to notify the public about convicted sex offenders living, working or visiting their communities. The law was inspired by the case of seven-year old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed by a known child molester who moved into her neighborhood.In 1996, the U.S. Congress passed Megan’s Law as an amendment to existing legislation. Every state is now required to develop a procedure for notifying the public when a sex offender is released into their community. Each state has different procedures for complying with the law.Since 1994 county prosecutors and local law enforcement in New Jersey have implemented the law in various ways. Limited resources available for the policing of the law combined with detailed requirements for data capture and public notification have presented a significant challenge. This discussion describes a renewed effort to organize the business process of enforcing Megan’s Law through an enhanced, geospatially-enabled database application and notification workflow.

ThUrsday 11:00 aM - 12:30 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: Analysis/Election

election day incident Mapping and automated analysisMegan Heckert, Avencia IncorporatedThe Committee of Seventy is a non-partisan group that for several decades has focused on monitoring Election Day activities to ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their right to vote. On Election Day, The Committee of Seventy fields calls from voters, polling officials, and field volunteers reporting election irregularities that range from problems with the voting machine to voters being turned away from the polls. During Philadelphia’s 2008 primaries, volunteers turned to GIS to help record, map, and analyze these irregularities. This presentation will highlight how ESRI’s ArcView and ModelBuilder enabled non-GIS experts to produce timely maps of incident locations and types, providing up-to-the-minute information to field volunteers and media outlets, and identifying areas of particular concern.

Mapping the du bois philadelphia negroKrista Heinlen, Sara Ansell, Cartographic Modeling LabMapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro is a teaching, outreach, and research project at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design that aims to recreate WEB Du Bois’s 1897 survey of Philadelphia using GIS. The project includes an online interactive GIS that allows visitors to look at 1900 census data to see who lived in the area that Du Bois studied. The project also includes a map-based board game, documentary, and community mural. For more information, visit www.mappingdubois.org

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ThUrsday 11:00 aM - 12:30 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: Careers in GIS

Careers in Gis panel discussionModerator Scott Warner

room: Clayton 125Track: Public Safety/Transportation

delaware’s Criminal & highway analysis Mapping for public safety (ChaMps) applicationChad Lauderbaugh, GeoDecisionsReinforcing the theme of A Spatial Network, the Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) has undertaken a joint effort with the Delaware State Police (DSP) to develop a comprehensive and flexible Web-based Geographic Information System known as CHAMPS that will allow the departments to query, map, report, and analyze all crashes in near real-time. Built from a hybrid of ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server, OHS and DSP are able to query on nearly any crash, criminal, eTicket, or Person attribute and overlay the results on a map that can include limitless layers such as crashes and crime by type, emergency facilities, DUI checkpoints, political boundaries, red light and traffic cameras, aerial photography and much more. Given CHAMPS flexibility, it will be the future of crash and criminal analysis in Delaware as the two agencies work together to make the State of Delaware safer.

Using Gis to Monitor and report ada ComplianceJoe Bizzel, Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Greg Slater, Maryland State Highway AdministrationThe Maryland State Highway Administration has set goals to improve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for sidewalks along state maintained roadways for each reporting year. Compliance is assessed in relation to SHA’s Accessibility Policy and Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities along State Highways, which are more restrictive than the national ADA guidelines. SHA has developed a comprehensive data model, migrated existing inventory information into the new database and developed a web-based compliance reporting application using ESRI technology. The application allows SHA to report on sidewalks, ramps, and other related features to compare compliance on a user-defined and quarterly basis when preparing their reports. SHA now has ADA compliance data at their fingertips, dramatically reducing the hours necessary to create the required reports and ultimately improving the quality of mobility for citizens with disabilities. This presentation will discuss the business need, the technical solution and next steps for system and program enhancements.

Urban applications of intelligence Transportation systems (its) improves Traffic safety, saves Time, lives, and enhances productivitySamuel H.Mwabira-Simera, Morgan State UniversityTo examine the current ITS technologies Integrated into the transportation systems for Urban application planning efforts, research was conducted to identify specific applications in many scenarios. Many of these ITS applications involved a planning-related examination of urban needs for real-time and other issues associated with infrastructure and traffic flow information in a realistic scenario, with a concept that resists the technological and the economical assay, to increase safety, improve the effectiveness of intelligent system to ensure safe vehicle operation is central for overlapping networks whose composite density is a direct reflection of the required spatial accuracy, and to insure security for the transportation systems focusing mainly on Urban areas. In addition, in Baltimore and Mary County , Urban ITS Application provided a vital solution to study of the level of congestion, speed limits, and accidents to promote the safe traffic operations, improving safety and reducing congestion, increasing the convenience, reliability, and accessibility of all transport modes while saving lives and time and generating revenue.

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room: Clayton 123Track: Database Design

Cadastral Mapping in the Geodatabase: accuracy expectations vs. realities of CostWilliam Wetzel, The Sidwell CompanyNot all cadastral geodatabases are created equally. Two cadastral geodatabases containing the same information can easily drive map maintenance costs up or down by a factor of two or more based solely on how they the geodatabase is designed. The geodatabase schema is a significant driver behind the complexity and cost of map maintenance. The focus of this presentation will be to provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the guiding principles behind cost, how to differentiate between various types of cadastral geodatabases, and showcase an efficient cadastral geodatabase data model to support your enterprise GIS program.

development of large scale planimetric, Topographic and orthophoto base MapsDavid Weaver, Applied Geographics, Inc.Municipalities, campuses and other entities require accurate base maps with a great variety of vector-based features (e.g. buildings, other structures, utilities, roads, sidewalks, driveways, fences, hydro, etc.) They also require accurate elevation data and orthophotography. The cost of these projects has fallen dramatically in the past several years. This presentation gives an overview of the process required to create such a base map and includes technical specifications, detailed geodatabase design, accuracy goals, and general cost estimates. The advantages of digital aerial cameras will be discussed, and examples will be shown of base maps created at 40-scale and 100-scale.

ThUrsday 2:00 pM - 3:30 pM

room: Clayton 119Track: GIS in Education

Mobile Travel decisions: Cost and Travel Time analysis in a Multi Modal CityGarima Vyas, University of PennsylvaniaAs we all are in the era where everything needs to be done quickly. Increasing demand of hand held devices and the development work in it, points out the same thing to us that, we do need decisions in our hand. Imagine a situation when you are required to go to a Z location from your current X location. You have to quickly make a decision to choose a mode (Y) that how will you go there. Most of the people go with the decision of driving, as it’s the most convenient way of reaching anywhere. What if there is a traffic jam on the route? What if there is a better way of public transportation connection picking you up right exactly where you are (Z)? How can you save time and money invested in travel? How will you improve your choice of Y? How convenient it would be for anyone in this world to punch in some numbers or letter and get the decision in their hands. This is the concept behind MTD (Mobile Travel Decision). MTD will be a software in which user would be able to punch in the starting and destination address to get a map with the addresses marked on the map. With the addresses on the map, user will also get information regarding all the different modes oftransportation available in between those two points with the scheduled timing and updated real time data (if possible). To make a decision about which mode to chose user will get the cost and time comparison of all the routes.The implementation of such a concept for the real world usage will be a boon for every mobile user. Traveling in a city by public transit or with personal car will no more be an impediment. Every single user will be an informed person. If you are visiting a new city, you do not need to worry about collecting information and maps before you start your journey. Just keep your mobile in your pocket and the world will travel with you.

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room: Clayton 119Track: GIS in Education

forclosure analysis in northern VirginiaCharles Gerlach, Northern Virginia Community College

TbaSebastian Carisio, University of DelawareExurban expansion has been an increasing concern and topic of interest for researchers, developers, and local governments all of whom seek to understand better the forces of this expansion in order to predict exurbia’s growth. In the spring of 2008, a group of University of Delaware geography undergraduates, led by geography professors April Veness and Tracy DeLiberty, conducted research in the development along Route 40 in New Castle County, Delaware to better understand the quality of residential life and the space residents use in this development. Besides their functioning between their home and work locations, exurban residents tend to develop and utilize a third space known as sacred space. Sacred space is often a recreational area, a house of worship, library, coffee house, or park that residents will visit for gathering, socializing, and leisure activities. This presentation shows use of GIS to map sacred spaces for four different neighborhoods along Route 40, all of which exist in close proximity, but are easily distinguished by their diverse demographics. The map produced shows the location and access of sacred space in relation to crime, resident income, race and other human and environmental factors.

room: Clayton 125Track: Data QC/Conversion

Quality Control in a Global environmentPatti Rockwell, TGMGIn today’s global environment many projects use multiple subcontractors in producing their work. Those cultures often have a difficult time in understanding converion of data even though the database design is clear. This presentation covers the QA/QC of a project that is produced by three different off-shore sub contractors and the problems encountered and addressed.

Cad-to-Gis Transformations using data interoperability extensionBill Dickinson Jr., Exceptional Software StrategiesThis workshop will provide a step-by-step guide on how to transform Microstation CAD drawings (.dgn) into file geodatabase datasets using the ESRI Data Interoperability Extension. Lessons learned while transforming CAD data for a large facilities operation will also be included in the discussion.

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room: Clayton 123Track: ArcGIS Server/Web

parcel Map reporting in Web applicationsBen Dwinal, Dave Braig, BAE SystemsBAE Systems ADR Geospatial Systems Engineering Team was tasked with upgrading a desktop mapping application to an enterprise application. The client had an initial interest in using ArcGIS as the Enterprise mapping toolkit. The enterprise application will support over 1800 users. The map component is integrated as a piece of a larger information reporting application that allows users to view, query and select tax parcel data to be included in output property reports.The solution provided includes a distributed implementation of ArcGIS Server as well as many custom built components specific to the application. Current application is a desktop application which includes high maintenance costs for software pieces and data. Every data update and software version release requires packaging and shipping to each client. The application needed to be upgraded to a server based enterprise application to reduce maintenance costs.

issues with arcGis server 9.2 and non-esri customized ToolsChristine Vandeyar, Yanli Gong, Montgomery County PoliceMontgomery County Police Department, MD and the county GIS have recently been working together on a web mapping service application through ArcGIS server 9.2. This is to offer support to the officers as a situational tool - displaying history data of incidents; displaying the number of incidents at the same location; as a planning tool - a crime occurred, what do we need to do?; as an operational tool- visual with aerials. We have ArcGIS server based templates with non-ESRI customized controls to perform zoom-in capabilities, display results in table formats and map tips on a windows system. Issues:

In-stability of service•Inflexibility to incorporate third party tools•Network time-out issues between firewalls •

This caused us to make the database set to file-based geo-database not linked to SDE.This presentation will cover the obstacles and issues encountered when trying to implement customized features for public safety.

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speaker bios

sergei andronikov, phd, MbaEmail: sandroni@gmu.eduPhone: 703-993-9801School of Management, George Mason University4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030Website: http://som.gmu.edu

More than 20 years Dr. Andronikov has been working with GIS technology, served as Director of two GIS Centers in academia. He implemented Enterprise GIS solutions, constructed Geodatabases, managed federal, regional and local GIS projects applying predictive modeling. Currently his interest spans Spatial Business Intelligence, application of GIS technology to business. Dr. Andronikov received “Special Achievement in GIS” by ESRI, “Academic Excellence and Quality Award” from TBR, and “Key Technical Contributor” award from DARPA.

steve beckEmail: sbeck@jmt.comPhone: 410-316-2280Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT)72 Loveton Circle, Sparks, MD 21152Website: http://www.jmt-engineering.com

Steve Beck has over 31 years of experience in GIS, IT, and Project Management for state and local government agencies. Steve has spent the past 8 years with JMT managing the development of Baltimore City’s GIS program within the Department of Public Works/Bureau of Water & Wastewater. Steve is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP), certified by AIIM as an ECM Specialist (ECMs), a certified GIS Professional (GISP) and a Business Process Management Specialist (BPMs).

Joe bizzellEmail: jbizzell@jmt.comPhone: 410-316-2676Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT)72 Loveton Circle, Sparks, MD 21152Website: http://www.jmt.com Joe Bizzell serves as a lead application developer, contributing over 7 years of experience to the JMT applications team. Mr. Bizzell is an Enterprise GIS System integrator and product developer as well as an ESRI ArcIMS and ArcSDE Programming Specialist. He has served as a Product Development Architect and Technical Lead for major enterprise Web-based GIS systems.

Jayson brennenEmail: brennenjd@cdm.comPhone: 603-222-8323CDM670 N. Commercial Street, Manchester NH 03101Website: http://www.cdm.com

Jayson Brennen is a Senior GIS Program Manager at CDM. He has 19 year of GIS implementation experience and has helped over 50 communities and utilities implement enterprise-wide GIS programs. He specializes in GIS system planning and integrating GIS technologies with complementing systems.

Julia brokawEmail: jules226@gmail.comPhone: 610-982-9268Gallows Run Watershed Association/Palisades High School1575 Mine Spring Lane, Upper Black Eddy, PA 18972

sebastian CarisioUniversity of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

Christian CarlsonEmail: ccarlson@esri.comESRIAfter graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with BA degrees in Geography and Economics, Christian started a career in Geographic Information Systems as a GIS/GPS analyst with the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management. Christian’s responsibilities included collecting, organizing and analyzing data used to support projects ranging from wetlands delineation to coastal erosion.

In 1995 Christian joined Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., as a business development executive. Over the next seven years Christian served in multiple business development capacities spanning public, private and utility sectors. In 2001 Christian was promoted to Southeastern Regional Manager responsible for business development, professional services and education services in the southeastern United States.

In 2007 Christian was asked to serve as Director of US State and Local Government Business Development. In this role Christian leverages his experience in working with public sector GIS users to craft strategies and business processes designed to meet the changing needs of state and local GIS users.

Christian grew up in Durham, NC and currently lives in Charlotte with his wife Heather and 3 year old daughter Helen Jane Carlson. Christian received his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Fall of 2008.

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adam ConnerEmail: aconner@geodecisions.comPhone: 302-731-7531 x 8GeoDecisions56 W Main St, Suite 207, Christiana, DE 19702Website: http://www.geodecisions.com

Adam Conner is a developer and project manager for GeoDecisions. He has been with GeoDecsions for 1.5 years and worked with clients throughout the state of Delaware, as well as clients in Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Adam specializes in internet development using Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, OpenLayers, and ESRI’s Javascript and Flex API’s. Adam enjoys using new technologies to improve client workflows, allowing GIS to simplify client problem solving instead of complicating it.

bill dickinsonEmail: william.dickinson@exceptionalsoftware.comPhone: 240-373-0350Exceptional Software Strategies849 International Drive, Suite 310, Linthicum, MD 21090Website: http://gis.exceptionalsoftware.com

Bill Dickinson has been working in the GIS field for the past nine years, developing web-based mapping applications for environmental and facilities management issues. He has a Masters in GIS from the Penn State World Campus, where his focus was the application of next generation web-mapping technologies to archaeological data. He currently leads a small development team converting CAD drawings into geospatial data for access through the Google Earth desktop client.

ben dwinalEmail: ben.dwinal@baesystems.comPhone: 856-793-4286BAE Systems124 Gaither Drive Suite 100, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054Website: http://www.baesystems.com

10 years experience in GIS and mapping technologiesExperienced in GIS analysis, spatial data management and processing, application development, database programming, object-orientated programming, automation of spatial data processing, web development, systems design, image processing and analysis, 3D data processing, high volume map production, automated mapping.

lee epsteinEmail: lepstein@cbf.orgPhone: 410-268-8816Chesapeake Bay FoundationPhilip Merrill Environmental Center6 Herndon Ave., Annapolis, MD 21403

Lee R. Epstein—Director, Lands Program, Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Mr. Epstein is responsible for developing policy, advocacy, and public education activities in support of the CBF’s land use policy, land conservation, and stormwater management agenda. With 200,000 members across the United States, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, based in Annapolis, Maryland, is the largest private non-profit organization dedicated to saving the Chesapeake Bay. Prior to joining CBF, Mr. Epstein managed the environmental practice as a partner in the law firm of Linowes & Blocher in Silver Spring, MD; served for six years as a Maryland Assistant Attorney General in that state’s Department of Natural Resources; worked as an environmental planner and policy chief for Fairfax County, Virginia; and served as a planner and lawyer with the National Association of Counties. Mr. Epstein holds a masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a law degree from the George Washington University, and has spoken and published widely.

Mario fieldEmail: mario.field@dc.govPhone: 202-727-1761DC Government441 4th St NW, Suite 930 South, Washington DC, 20001

Mario Field has been the GIS Data Coordinator for DC Government since November 2001. He is responsible for managing, publishing, and maintaining the rich DC GIS database and supervising the OCTO GIS data team. He also worked on projects for Prince George’s County and Baltimore City MD, and was the QA/QC manager at Baltimore County government. He has a BS in geography for Virginia Tech and graduate work in Environmental Planning and GIS at Towson University.

Qiaomei fuFairfax County, VA

hank GarieEmail: hgarie@geoanalyitcs.comPhone: 608-241-7100Geoanalytics10 West Mifflin St, Suite 400, Madison , WI 51709 Website: www.geoanalytics.com

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James GarrityEmail: jgarrity@choosemaryland.orgPhone: 410-428-9743ESRGC 1101 Camden Ave Salisbury, MD 21801

Garrity specializes in public sector GIS, having worked with the Worcester County Department of Comprehensive Planning and now for Maryland DBED in cooperation with Salisbury University’s ESRGC and BEACON and the Lower and Mid-Shore Councils. He recently graduated from Salisbury University’s Master’s in GIS and Public Administration Program. Garrity aims pragmatically, within bureaucracy, to place useful tools into the hands of those who will use them.

Charles GerlachNorthern Virginia Community College

Jessica GouldEmail: jgould@ch2m.comPhone: 215-640-9024CH2M HILL1717 Arch St. Suite 4400, Philadelphia PA 19103Website: www.ch2m.com

shawn GravattEmail: Shawn.Gravatt@e2m.netPhone: 703-752-7755 x 129engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e²M)2751 Prosperity Avenue, Suite 200, Fairfax, VA 22031Website: www.e2m-inc.com

Mr. Shawn Gravatt is e²M’s GIS Manager. He is an accomplished professional geographer with expertise in environmental planning and GIS. Shawn has a proven ability to perform GIS analyses, provide technical reports and reviews, and use GIS to answer project specific questions for NEPA documents in support of DoD, DHS, DOE, USAF, NPS, and many other public and private sector clients. His current efforts are focused on developing complete spatial reporting tools.

Megan heckertEmail: mheckert@avencia.comPhone: 215-701-7712Avencia Incorporated340 N. 12th St. Suite 402Philadelphia, PA, 19107Website: www.avencia.com

Megan Heckert is business development manager for Avencia Incorporated. She holds a Masters in Geography from Temple University and a Certificate in GIS from Penn State.

krista heinlenEmail: kristah@sas.upenn.eduPhone: 215-573-4098Cartographic Modeling Lab, University of Pennsylvania, 200 Caster Building, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214Website: www.cml.upenn.eduKrista Heinlen holds a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania where she concentrated on using GIS to analyze regional geology and landscape evolution. She has worked as a Project Manager and Outreach Coordinator for the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System at the Cartographic Modeling Lab (www.cml.upenn.edu) since 2005, and has worked closely with Dr. Amy Hillier to introduce the Mapping DuBois (www.mappingdubois.org) project as a teaching tool and resource for faculty and students throughout the Philadelphia region.

leonard hugginsEmail: Leonard.Huggins@city.pittsburgh.pa.usPhone: 412-287-0124City of Pittsburgh

erik Johnson, eMT-p, CpMEmail: erik.johnson@dc.govPhone: 202-673-3320DC Fire & EMS Dept.1923 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20001Website: http://fems.dc.gov/fems/site/default.asp

He has co-authored original research published in the Journal of Academic Emergency Medicine. He has been a finalist for the Cafriz Awards for Distinguished DC Government Employees twice, and has earned one of the Fire & EMS Department’s highest awards, The Bronze Bar. He has worked for DC for twenty years.

brock kingstonEmail: bkingston@latitudegeo.comPhone: 416-253-5186Latitude Geographics Group Ltd. 2275 Lake Shore Blvd W, Suite 516, Toronto ON Canada M8V 3Y3Website: http://www.latitudegeo.com

Brock Kingston is an Solutions Manager at Latitude Geographics. An Internet Geography firm with a focus on creating a clear path for success on ESRI web based technologies. Having worked for several as a Consultant and a Technical Solutions Specialist for ESRI Canada, Brock has the technical skills and knowledge to help people succeed with web GIS. Brock enjoys spending time with his wife and two year old twin boys.

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Chad lauderbaughEmail: clauderbaugh@geodecisions.comPhone: 302-731-7531GeoDecisions56 West Main Street, Suite 207, Christiana, DE 19711

pat Mcloughlin Spatial Systems Associates

simon MossEmail: simon.moss@paconsulting.comPhone: 212 973 5900PA Consulting Group The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10174 Website: www.paconsulting.com

Simon Moss is a Principal Consultant within PA’s ITUS Practice. He has over seven years’ experience of working on both implementation and strategy assignments for a wide variety of clients, including blue chip private sector clients and local, regional and national government departments.

samuel h. Mwabira-simera “Mwasi”Email: mwasimwas@yahoo.com Phone: 443 885-4747Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State UniversityPO Box, 5116 Forestville-Capital Heights, MD 21251 USA

Presented papers at; (1)-The 12th, ITS World Congress, San Francisco; (2)-the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), Savannah Georgia; (3) three papers at 16th Annual Reflections of the Past, and Solutions to the Present Geographic Information Science Conference at Towson University setting a new record as a researcher; and nominated for Best Professional Award and Student awards;(4)-the Historically Black Colleges and Universities 18th, Annual Summer GIS Faculty workshop, Washington DC. Awarded for the best student paper; (5)-on Transportation Objectives crossroads, Local/Regional Economic Goals; (6)-the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing XVIII Congress, Vienna, Austria. This paper is published in the ISPRS archive, Vienna, Austria and I was awarded the Netherlands First Order; (7) International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission VII “International Symposium on Resource and Environmental Monitoring” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Publications - Author of “Pearl of Africa”, and “Elements of Satellite Surveying and Mapping.” Manuscripts send for publication.Memberships - Canadian Geomatics; National Professional Surveyors, Association of District of Columbia Land Surveyors. Traffic engineers with the State of Maryland; Institute of Transportation Engineers; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote sensing; and American Congress of Surveying and Mapping.Honors: Inclusion in The WHO’S WHO: - Strathmore (2001-2002); American Registry of Outstanding Professional (2002-3/2003); Metropolitan (2005/06); Montclair (2007/08);

and Madison (2008/09) which has been included in Library of Congress.

Jim oweckeEmail: jim_owecke@evsgps.comPhone: 434-817-5000Earth Vector Systems1710 Allied Street, Charlottesville, VA 22903Website: www.evsgps.com

With over 20 years experience in the geospatial industry Mr. Owecke has developed a broad spectrum of expertise in the many practical applications of GPS and GIS. In his current position with Earth Vector Systems he is focused on providing expert consultation, sales, training and technical support regarding Trimble GPS systems and other advanced technologies for field data capture and mobile GIS.

nicholas a. procopio iii, ph.d. Email: nprocopio@njpines.state.nj.usPhone: 609-894-7300 x 183New Jersey Pinelands Commission 15 Springfield Rd., New Lisbon, NJ 08064 Website: www.nj.gov/pinelands/scienceDr. Procopio is a research scientist with the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, a land-use regulatory authority that oversees the protection of the one million acre Pinelands National Reserve. Nick’s research specialization is in water resources, water quality and GIS. Nick serves on several inter-agency technical advisory committees.

richard rehmannEmail: rrehm@arh-us.comPhone: 800-924-0482Civil Solutions, a division of ARH850 S. Whitehorse Pike, PO Box 579, Hammonton, NJ 08037Website: www.civilsolutions.biz

Richard Rehmann is a Vice President of Civil Solutions, a division of ARH. Over 15 years, Rich has gained broad experience with GIS on the local, regional and national levels particularly in the State and local government, public safety, and Internet data delivery solutions markets. Rich is an active member of the New Jersey GIS community, most notably serving as the Executive Chairman of the New Jersey Geospatial Forum for 3 years.

ovidio rivero-bartolomeiEmail: orivero@pwcgov.orgPhone: 703-792-4187Prince William County5 County Complex Court, Suite 140, Prince William, VA 22192

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patti rockwellEmail: prockwell@govmap.comPhone: 410-745-3442TGMG515 Tenant Circle, Saint Michaels, MD 21663

shannon roseEmail: srose@mccrone-inc.comPhone: 410-758-2237AEGIS – McCrone, Inc.207 N. Liberty St, Centreville, MD 21617Website: www.thinkaegis.com/

Shannon Rose has over eight years of experience in GIS and ESRI software products. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Master of Science degree in Business Administration and Management. Her experience spans both public and private sectors, having worked for the State of Maryland Department of Transportation and State Highway Administration, as well as private firms. Over the years she has worked on projects related to land planning, transportation, engineering and surveying, environmental studies, watershed and floodplain studies, planimetric and topographic mapping, and US Dept. of Defense classified contracts. She received her Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP) certification in May 2008. She has also been an ESRI Authorized Training Partner since April 2008. Shannon is currently the GIS Manager for the McCrone, Inc.’s GIS group AEGIS – Analytical and Environmental GIS, located in Centreville, MD.

andrew smartEmail: asmart@geographit.comPhone: 717-399-7007geographIT1525 Oregon Pike, Suite 202, Lancaster, PA 17601 Website: www.geographit.com

Mr. Andrew Smart is a GIS Analyst at geographIT located in Lancaster, PA, a technology firm specializing in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Information Technologies. He holds a BA in geography, with minor in geology from Millersville University, Millersville, PA. Before joining geographIT in 2005 he worked at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). His responsibilities at the USDA involved the design of conservation systems and implementation of conservation practices in Pennsylvania and New York. Since joining geographIT, he has quickly and consistently demonstrated competence and quality in database design, GIS analysis/geo-processing, database administration, map design and quality assurance. In addition to expert cartography skills, Andrew possesses extensive training and experience in ArcGIS editing environments, geo-processing with Model Builder, geo-coding, geodatabase design, ArcSDE, database replication and QAQC procedures. He is recipient of the Innovation Award at the 2008 PAGIS Conference for the development of a ArcGIS server web-based application demonstrating one of the most innovative use LiDAR data.

Tom TinerEmail: ttine@arh-us.comPhone: 908-231-9040Civil Solutions, a division of ARH1250 Route 28, Suite 201, Branchburg, NJ 08876Website: www.civilsolutions.bizOver the past twenty (20) years, Tom has gained a wealth of experience in many aspects of the digital mapping industry. Tom is a certified photogrammetrist and experienced in photo-interpretation, photogrammetry and GIS implementation strategies. Tom’s focus and commitment toward successful implementation of GIS technology is realized through his diverse work with his peers and clientele. His career goal is to continue developing innovative and cost effective GIS solutions.

Christine VandeyarEmail: christine.vandeyar@montgomerycountymd.govPhone: 240-773-5218Montgomery County Police Department, MD2350 Research Blvd, Rockville MD 20850www.montgomerycountymd.gov/poltmpl.asp?url=/Content/POL/index.asp

Christine Vandeyar has been in the GIS field for over 10yrs and has worked for the Montgomery County Police Department for past three years as GIS Manager. My role as GIS Manager is to manage the Police data and implement GIS applications and projects for the police department.

Garima VyasEmail: vyasgarima12@gmail.comPhone: 215-882-0247University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA 19104

sam WearEmail: stw1@westchestergov.comPhone: 914-995-3047 U.S. Geological Survey/Westchester County GISReston, Virginia/ White Plains, New YorkWebsite: http://giswww.westchestergov.com

Currently on a detail with the U.S. Geological Survey (Reston, VA) serving as a local government liaison to the Geospatial One Stop and The National Map. Project Leader for the Westchester County (NY) GIS program since inception in 1987. Responsible for all elements of County GIS program including application and data development, human resources, operational and capital budgets, and coordination with regional, state, and federal programs Serving 26 county departments and 43 local governments in Westchester County

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david WeaverEmail: weaver@appgeo.comPhone: 617-447-2440Applied Geographics, Inc.24 School St., Suite 500, Boston, MA 0 2108

bill WetzelEmail: bwetzel@sidwellco.comPhone: 630-549-1099The Sidwell Company 675 Sidwell Court, St. Charles, Illinois 60174 Website: http://www.sidwellco.comAs National GIS Account Manager, Bill works with local government entities to enhance their cadastral GIS data and streamline their land records workflows. Bill has worked with Sidwell for over 8 years and has previously held the positions of GIS Account Manager and Project Manager. Prior to joining Sidwell, Bill worked with two engineering companies, providing GIS services to local government. Bill holds both a BA and MS in Geography.

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applied Geographics24 School St., Ste 500Boston, MA 02108-5113Contact: David WeaverPhone: 617-447-2400Fax: 617-259-1688Email: dweaver@appgeo.comWebsite: www.appgeo.com

Applied Geographics, Inc. (AppGeo) has provided comprehensive, high-quality GIS consulting services and innovative geospatial solutions since 1991.

axis Geospatial llC8600 Brooks Drive, Suite AEaston, MD 21601Contact: Erica InsleyPhone: 410-822-1441Fax: 410-822-6225Email: einsley@axisgeospatial.comWeb: www.axisgeospatial.com

Axis Geospatial is a full-service photogrammetric mapping firm specializing in providing and updating the core information required in GIS and engineering applications. Axis has over 20 years experience with locations in Maryland, New York and Colorado.

bae systems10920 Technology DriveSan Diego, CA 92127Contact: Pamela PetersonPhone: 858-592-5721Fax: 858-592-5055Email: pamela.peterson@baesystems.comWebsite: www.baesystems.com

BAE Systems specializes in geospatial imagery tools and solutions, exploitation, and advanced information technologies for the intelligence, defense, homeland security and commercial markets. We are a premier provider of: Geospatial Intelligence Analysis; Systems Architecture and Integration; Battle Management and Targeting; and Knowledge Management.

boyd instrument & supply Co. inc.445 B Easton Rd.Horsham, PA 19044Contact: Rosemary BoydPhone: 215-443-9996Fax: 215-443-9639Email: roe@boydinstrument.comWebsite: www.boydinstrument.com

We are the Topcon GIS Dealer for PA, & NJ areas. We have a GPS Network System. We have been in business since 1986, and bring a wealth of experience to the Surveying, Construction and GIS communities.

CdM670 N. Commercial StreetManchester, NH 03101Contact: Jayson BrennenPhone: 603-222-8323Email: brennenjd@cdm.comWeb: www.cdm.com

CDM is a full-service consulting firm helping public and private clients improve infrastructure, environment, and information access. Whether you need assistance with planning your GIS environment, developing GIS data sets, or implimenting custom GIS applications, CDM can help. CDM has been providing enterprise GIS and information technology consulting services to our clients since 1986 and continually strives to maximize our client’s investment in the technology. To serve the region, CDM has offices in NY, NJ, PA and VA.

Contex americas15737 Crabbs Branch WayDerwood, MD 20855Contact: Kathy MagenheimPhone: 240-399-5630Fax: 240-268-1118Email: kmagenheim@contex.comWebsite: www.contex.xom

Contex Large Format Scanners (25” wide to 54”) with increased speed, resolution, and operational simplicity increase productivity for scan-to- print and scan-to-file applications for GIS.

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dewberry8401 Arlington Blvd.Fairfax, VA 22031Contact: Sue Hoegberg & Victoria Bryant-HallPhone: 703-849-0454Fax: 703-849-0182Email: vbryant-hall@dewberry.comWebsite: www.dewberry.com

Dewberry is a multi-disciplinary design firm providing services in program management, planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, geographic information services, and the environmental sciences. The firm is headquartered in Fairfax, VA and maintains offices at 35 locations throughout the U.S. Clients include government agencies at all levels, corporations, real estate developers, colleges and universities, school districts, and other commercial and institutional organizations. Within Dewberry, the Geographic Information Services Department is an innovative solutions provider, offering renowned GIS services to private corporations as well as Federal, State, and local agencies since 1980.

earth Vector systems, llC1710 Allied St. #20 BCharlottesville, VA 22903Contact: Cindy MoorePhone: 434-817-5000Fax: 434-817-5010Email: cindy_moore@evsgps.comWebsite: www.evsgps.com

Provider of Trimble GPS technology for integrated mapping and mobile GIS solutions, serving the mid-Atlantic for over 14 years. Our professional expertise guides clients in the complete process of product selection, configuration, training and technical support. Our focus is on high quality products backed by high quality service.

esriphiladelphia office1400 Morris Dr. Suite 102Chesterbrook, PA 19087Contact: Greg WelcPhone: 610-644-3374Fax: 610-644-3379Email: gwelc@esri.com

esriWashington dC office8615 Westwood Center Dr.Vienna, VA 22182-2218Contact: Paul HartwellPhone: 703-506-9515Fax: 703-506-9514Email: phartwell@esri.com

ESRI is the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) software industry. ESRI software helps you accomplish tasks faster, easier, and more efficiently.

Geodecisions207 Senate Ave.Camp Hill, PA 17011Contact: Gloria PattersonPhone: 866-426-6388Email: gpatterson@geodecisions.comWebsite: www.geodecisions.com

GeoDecisions is an information technology company specializing in geospatial solutions. We deliver strategic geographic information systems (GIS) and information technology (IT) solutions and applications to empower government, military, transportation, and private/commercial clients to make smarter, more-informed decisions.

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT)72 Loveton CircleSparks, MD 21152Contact: Ashley HalePhone: 410-316-2280Fax: 410-472-0731Email: ahale@jmt.comWebsite: www.jmt.com

JMT is a leading geospatial and information technology solutions and services company, providing clients with innovative applications of technology and knowledge to help improve their day-to-day operations. JMT’s IT professionals offer a wide-range of services including: system integration, GIS, application development, database management and administration, infrastructure design and implementation, asset management, program management, and telecommunications and wireless solutions.

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latitude Geographics Group, ltd.204 Market SquareVictoria, BC Canada V8W 3C6Contact: Amy ThiessenPhone: 250-381-8130Fax: 250-381-8132Email: athiessen@latitudegeo.comWebsite: www.latitudegeo.com

A division of Latitude Geographics Group Ltd., Geocortex provides a suite of proven products, services and knowledge that organizations can use to deliver effective, successful web-based mapping using ESRI’s ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS. With success stories across North America, we help clients create top-notch web-based GIS implementations.

Michael baker Jr. inc.4431 N. Front St., 2nd FloorHarrisburg, PA 17110Contact: Lindsey SenftPhone: 717-221-2031Fax: 717-234-7611Email: lsenft@mbakercorp.comWebsite: www.mbakercorp.com

The Michael Baker Jr., Inc. (Baker) Geospatial Information Technologies Service Area provides GIS consulting; technology assessment and implementation; mapping and digital orthophotography; GPS and conventional field inventory and surveys; database support; web portals; and application development. Baker’s GIS/GPS Field Mapping software GeoLink provides real-time data collection with GPS accuracy.

pbs&J12101 Indian Creek CourtBeltsville, MD 20705Contact: Bill Press, GISPPhone: 301-210-6800Fax: 301-210-4539Email: WJPress@pbsj.comWeb: www.pbsj.com

PBS&J is a multidisciplinary, employee-owned, professional consulting firm with core service disciplines that encompass engineering, planning, geospatial sciences, intelligent transportation systems, and program management. Founded in 1960, PBS&J’s mix of public and private sector clients include federal, state, and municipal agencies; departments of transportation; airports; utilities; and toll road facilities.

pinnacle Mapping Technologies, inc.8021 Knue Rd., Suite 113Indianapolis, IN 46250Contact: Bob GrayPhone: 505-263-6701Fax: 505-212-0776Email: bgray@pinnaclemapping.comWebsite: www.pinnaclemapping.com

Pinnacle Mapping Technologies, Inc., a woman-owned and veteran-owned small business, provides a broad range of photogrammetric and GIS services to clients in the private and public sectors. At Pinnacle, we bring together our large company technical knowledge base within a smaller organization. Our customers feel like they are working with a large company that is in tune with quality assurance and customer satisfaction, they receive first-rate mapping products and they spend only a fraction of the cost a large company would charge for those services.

rolta international5865 North Point ParkwayAlpharetta, GA 30022Contact: Tim DecPhone: 678-942-5000Fax: 678-942-5001Email: tim.dec@roltaus.comWebsite: www.roltaus.com

Rolta is a full service GIS consultancy that boasts an ESRI award winning web GIS application called OnPoint™. The OnPoint™ suite provides the unique ability to easily publish GIS data quickly and securely over the web to registered users. Additionally, OnPoint™ takes a simple web GIS and transforms it into a true Enterprise solution by linking to your organizations non-GIS databases and enhancing this data with spatial intelligence. OnPoint™ solutions have won 1st Prize five times at the International ArcIMS Development competition held at the ESRI user conference in San Diego.

routesmart Technologies, inc.8850 Stanford Blvd., Suite 3250Columbia, MD 21045Contact: Christina GoodrichPhone: 800-977-7284 ext. 3104Email: cgoodrich@routesmart.comWebsite: www.routesmart.com

RouteSmart Technologies, Inc. develops, markets, licenses and supports RouteSmart for ArcGIS—an advanced GIS-based route optimization system used globally by leading organizations in the newspaper, postal, public works, and utility industries. RouteSmart for ArcGIS operates in all current ArcGIS desktop environments and is a complete solution for route planning.

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spatial systems associates, inc.6345 Woodside Court, Suite 201Columbia, MD 21046Contact: Henry WeissenbergerPhone: 410-423-1870Fax: 410-423-1871Email: henryw@spatialsys.comWebsite: www. spatialsys.com

Spatial Systems Associates Inc. (SSA) is a full-service Geographic Information Systems (GIS) implementation and support provider and ESRI business partner founded in 1995. SSA’s services include: consulting, Internet map service and website development, application development, data services, analysis and cartographic production and training.

The Government Mapping Group (TGMG)515 Tenant CircleSaint Michaels, MD 21663Contact: Patti RockwellPhone: 410-745-0260Fax: 410-745-0333Email: prockwell@govmap.comWebsite: www.govmap.com

The Government Mapping Group (TGMG) is an independent professional service organization comprised of the premier GIS consulting, mapping and asset collection experts based in the USA. We offer “customer-focused” solutions to produce an optimal integrated product for your users.

To learn more, route yourself to www.routesmart.comor call us today 1.800.977.7284.

From the Desktop to the Enterprise—LoGIStics Solutions thatPick-up and Deliver.RouteSmart Technologies understands the middle name of logistics is GIS! Over the past twodecades we’ve delivered scalable, sustainable GIS-based routing solutions that operate using theESRI® technology platform. RouteSmart software is specifically designed to meet the demandingroute planning needs of the newspaper, postal, public works and utility meter reading industries.

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