The Connection

The City of Falls Church, Virginia, has awarded WorldView a contract to redesign its parcel mapping web site. The new web site will be built on ArcGIS Server and will provide robust parcel viewing, searching, and analytical tools for City government and its constituents.

The Albemarle County Service Authority is partnering with WorldView on the development of an enterprise GIS database. Project tasks include database design, integration of existing data into the new database, and the development of processes for maintaining the data in the office and the field.

As part of its mapping services contract with the City of Lynchburg, WorldView is redesigning the City's economic development web site. The new web site will provide a seamless interface for prospects to view sites and properties, query business data associated with these properties, and create custom demographic reports for each City site.

Working through its partnership CACI Inc, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation has awarded WorldView a contract to modernize the department's Best Management Practices web application. The modernization effort includes updating the system's database design, building new data entry modules, providing robust reporting tools, and integrating the data with a GIS map viewer using ArcGIS Server.

WorldView has been contracted to provide enterprise application development services for a major northeastern gas company. Services include development of an intranet web mapping application using ArcGIS Server, deployment of an enterprise mobile application using ArcEngine, and integration of the company's numerous internal business systems with its enterprise GIS.

As part of its existing maintenance and support contract with WorldView, the Henrico County, Virginia, Department of Public Utilities has engaged with WorldView to provide additional support for its ongoing GIS needs. Tasks include data development, application design, on-site training and implementation planning assistance.

Using automated feature extraction software, WorldView has been selected to develop a comprehensive Land Use / Land Cover dataset for the Rivanna River Watershed in western Virginia, with a goal providing more effective watershed management, land conservation, and land use planning tools for the project partners. Project partners include StreamWatch, The Nature Conservancy, Albemarle County, and the Rivanna River Basin Commission.

WorldView Solutions has been awarded a contract to develop the City of Waynesboro’s water, sewer, and storm water utility database. WorldView will integrate existing source data into the system, supplemented with field verification of water and storm water features using sub-foot accuracy GPS data capture.

Caroline County, Virginia, has contracted with WorldView to provide three years of GIS development and support. WorldView will work closely with the County on the design of its GIS database, conversion of hard copy mapping into the GIS database, desktop software tool development, web mapping application design, staff training, and ongoing system maintenance.

As part of its Rapid Open Space Assessment partnership with The Conservation Fund, WorldView is developing a geodatabase of ownership information for a sixteen County regional land use assessment in northeastern North Carolina.

The Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Environmental Studies has contracted with WorldView Solutions on the development of an online interactive Underground Storage Tank workbook. The application will provide VCU, VaDEQ, and the EPA with self-certification software that is similar to popular consumer certification products, like TurboTax.

WorldView has contracted with Goochland County, Virginia, on a utilities GIS database design and data conversion project. WorldView’s staff will field-verify, using sub-foot accuracy GPS, the location and status of all sewer and water utility structures in the County. This data be integrated into an ArcGIS geometric network, using ESRI’s water and sewer data model.

As part of its ongoing GIS maintenance and support contract with Henrico County, Virginia, WorldView has been contracted to scan, georeference, and review the County’s water and sewer map books. The goal of the project is to integrate any remaining data from the map books into the County’s enterprise geodatabase and replace these hard copy products with digital mark-up and visualization tools using ArcGIS.

The Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission has selected WorldView as its vendor for a conversion project in Clarion, Crawford, Forest and Venango Counties of more than 135,000 tax parcels. WorldView will also provide cartographic map design, editing tools and training for each County.

The Virginia Geographic Information Network has contracted with WorldView on the development of a statewide cached dataset for the 2006 / 2007 Virginia Base Mapping aerial photography. WorldView will use ArcGIS Server to generate twelve levels of image caches, configure ArcGIS Server and the caches at VGIN, configure content security for map services, and providing ongoing technical support for the caching effort.

York County, James City County, and Dinwiddie County, Virginia are the latest localities to choose WorldView and its sister company, MapsDirect, to develop parcel portal web sites for the localities. MapsDirect offers WorldView clients a fast, reliable and simple set of tools for deploying applications with ArcGIS Server.

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College has contracted with WorldView Solutions on the development of GIS student database. In addition to mapping and aggregating nearly 50,000 student data records, WorldView will integrate demographic data and provide J. Sargeant with demographic analytical services.