Local GIS Tidbits
Leavenworth County, Kansas just launched an online GIS and published a Q & A with the Jeff Culbertson, GIS director. That’s a nice way to introduce the site and highlight that the county has a GIS director and not something I’ve seen done.
Sam Gett at the Northfield News wrote a recent column about inaccuracies in data in his GPS. I responded to it with a few suggestions. (GPS is still mis-expanded in the article; oh well…). But there is good news from Gett this week in his column:
Brian Welch, the city’s GIS technician, told me he received a call from NavTeq’s Midwest representative after the company found my recent column on mapping services online. NavTeq had previously targeted Rice County, along with about 500 others, for data updates. Welch connected the rep to county GIS coordinator Michelle Trager to obtain accurate street centerlines and address information. With any luck, he hoped, my GPS device will locate my house within a few months. Thanks, Brian!
It’s great to see that NAVTEQ is tracking such articles and responding. Well done!
Laflin (that’s in Upper Wyoming County, PA) is taking a GIS company up on a discounted monthly fee to test out its GIS tools.
Although not included in the budget as presented at the meeting, council agreed to spend $50 monthly on a municipal mapping plan outlined by In Sequence, Inc, a GIS mapping company. The company believes the mapping it will offer will be worth $350 to $500 a month, but is offering the program to the borough at the low monthly fee so that it can be shown as a pilot project. Once running, the system will show in a unified form all utility routes, power, water and sewer lines, as well as any other information that the borough feels important.
InSequence is actually one word. The company offers "GlobalView" a GIS service, though it does not list any municipalities as current clients.
