The Connection

In this Issue: GIS Day, Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System,Project MERG

The MERG (Mountain Empire Regional GIS) project has been presented with a Virginia Governor’s Technology Award for Cross-Boundary Collaboration. This award recognizes the innovative use of IT to provide government service based on the common needs in service delivery through shared processes. WorldView Solutions developed the regional GIS data sharing architecture, software, and services for this regional project. By winning this award, the MERG partners demonstrated strategies to share data easily across boundaries, create knowledge-sharing cultures, and provide IT solutions that support common business processes and promote innovative partnership programs.

The City of Lynchburg web mapping application has won the annual Public Information Program award from the International Association of Assessing Officer. This award is given to an assessment jurisdiction that has developed and implemented an effective system for the dissemination to taxpayers of information regarding the assessment process. The City’s web mapping application, developed by WorldView Solutions provides real time access to the City’s complete assessment data and is fully integrated with the City’s GIS database, providing users with access to dozens of data layers and current assessment data on the City’s parcels.

Please join WorldView Solutions at the 2011 VA GIS Conference at the Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen, Virginia. This annual conference features exhibits, lightning talks, and how-to sessions throughout the day.

In this Issue: WorldView Staff Profile, Henrico County, Hydrant Flow Inspection Tool, ArcObjects Layer Visibility in ArcMap

The City of Charlottesville, Virginia, recently awarded WorldView Solutions a contract to develop a web mapping application. This application will provide constituents with access to a complete set of maps, data, and tools from the City’s web site. As part of the contract, WorldView also has the option to provide ten years of ongoing GIS support services to the City.

The City of Hampton, Virginia has contracted with WorldView Solutions to provide an upgrade and enhancement to their existing GIS systems and software, in addition to providing ongoing support services for all GIS related systems, products, and services. The enhancements will provide Hampton with the tools and services to enable deployment of GIS on the web for citizen access, in addition to integration with internal City applications and services.

WorldView has been awarded contract 4400008244 with the Pennsylvania Department of General Services | Master IT Services ITQ 4400004480. WorldView contract includes Geospatial Technologies / Geospatial Information Systems (GT/GIS) Services and Software Development Services and is open to any Commonwealth of Pennsylvania agency.

As part of Esri’s International User Conference, WorldView will present a lightning talk on its involvement with the non-profit Virtual World Race program. The Virtual World Race is an online motivational program designed to encourage student fitness, enhance student achievement, and combat childhood obesity. WorldView’s lightning talk will occur directly after the plenary session, at 4pm in Ballroom 20 of the San Diego Convention Center.

WorldView, in partnership with Michael Baker Jr. Inc. and Bowman Consulting, has been awarded a contract by Hanover County to provide general GIS consulting services. As a first task under the contract, WorldView will develop on ArcGIS Server mobile application for the County Sheriff’s Office. Future ongoing services can include database design, data conversion, survey monumentation, and application development.

The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Conservation District has awarded WorldView a contract for developing desktop and web based applications to replace their existing BMP and Conservation Planning management software. These applications will provide desktop users with core GIS data maintenance tools while allowing general users to view, edit and maintain BMP and Conservation Plan data from within the District’s tracking web site.

The Henrico County GIS Department has begun a project with WorldView, as part of its annual services contract, to develop a countywide, street-name based linear referencing system. This system will allow the County to apply measure event data related to road maintenance on contiguous route data being developed for the entire County. Future applications of this system will include snow plow mapping and integration with the County’s work order management system.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has contracted with WorldView to convert and integrate all statewide TMDL data into the new database and maintenance application, also developed by WorldView. The database conversion effort will integrate all reporting data, including watersheds, permits and equations for each TMDL in the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing DEQ with a baseline of data for future system maintenance.

The Henrico County Department of Public Utilities has engaged WorldView to provide ongoing support throughout its upcoming Work Order Management System (WMS) deployment. WorldView will provide GIS services related to data preparation, QC and design review, program support, and application maintenance related to the WMX project.

In this Issue: WorldView Staff Profile, Virtual World Race, Danville myCommunity Map, Using Google to Search Esri’s Online Help

In partnership with Virginia Interactive, WorldView Solutions will develop the enterprise mapping components for the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s new Municipal Storm Water Best Management Practices (BMP) application. The mapping components will be fully integrated with Virginia Interactive’s web mapping application, allowing users to track Storm Water BMP data, apply spatial data in the storm water credit process, and take advantage of robust markup sharing and collaboration tools.

WorldView has deployed an ArcGIS Server Mobile application for the Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Department of Utilities. The application, which has been deployed on five ruggedized Trimble Nomad handheld GPS units, will be used for the County’s comprehensive water hydrant flushing project. County staff, as part of the hydrant flushing process, are using the application to store data about flushing events while the application automatically geolocates the hydrant and associated GIS data as the user fills out the hydrant flushing inspection form.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has awarded WorldView a contract to develop, over three phases, a Thin Client application for the agency’s Road Inventory Management System (RIMS). RIMS will provide users with access to millions of inventory records, related to VDOT roads and functionality, to manage inventory change requests, address complex data editing requirements, and integration with many other VDOT systems.

The City of Danville has launched its new myCommunity Map application, which provides the citizens of Danville with access to detailed mapping information about the City’s diverse community. Using Esri’s Silverlight API for ArcGIS Server, WorldView has built a user-friendly tabbed workflow and robust set of query and analysis tools for the City.

In this issue: Silverlight Redistricting Application (DLS), ArcGIS 10 Migration Training, BMP Tracking Application, City of Hopewell, ArcGIS 10 Desktop Enhancements

WorldView Solutions will make a presentation titled “BMP Tracking Made Easy: A Virginia Case Study” at the 2011 National Association of Conservation Districts. In partnership with WorldView, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation recently completed a project with the state’s Soil and Water Conservation Districts to modernize their obsolete Best Management Practices (BMP) tracking software. The successful project resulted in a modern Web platform for managing more than a decade of the Commonwealth’s BMP data. This presentation will explore how conservation organizations can leverage the latest technology to manage evolving conservation programs.

In partnership with Esri, WorldView has been selected by the Virginia Department of Transportation to develop tools for transitioning the agency from using its current road centerline product to an Enterprise Road Centerline based on data developed and maintained by the Virginia Geographic Information Network. The project includes development of data import and conflation tools, replication strategies, desktop editing tools, and automation capabilities using Esri’s workflow management tools.

As part of the 2011 Esri Federal User Conference, WorldView will co-present with the Smithsonian Institution on a talk titled “VectorMap - Using Silverlight for Disease Vector Distribution Data”. The presentation will focus on the current capabilities of the VectorMap web site, planned geoprocessing and analytics enhancements, and a demonstration by WorldView of a prototype using the new Silverlight mapping components.

The Virginia Division of Legislative Services (DLS) provides research for the General Assembly legislators and information for the public, including data on state legislative and congressional districts. As part of the 2010 Census, Virginia is one of the first states to begin the redistricting process and will finish all redistricting in the Commonwealth before the end of the year. To assist with this effort, WorldView has been contracted by DLS to develop a redistricting web site using Esri’s ArcGIS Server Silverlight API. The web site will provide access to 2010 Census demographics, redistricting data, and functionality for commenting on redistricting plans as they become available in the Spring.