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Westchester County GIS Overview

Westchester County GIS Overview. Westchester County Municipal Administrators Association Luncheon November 14, 2001. Topics for Discussion:. Some GIS Terms & Concepts Current Projects and Issues Questions and Answers. Many GIS Projects:.

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Westchester County GIS Overview

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  1. Westchester County GIS Overview Westchester County Municipal Administrators Association Luncheon November 14, 2001

  2. Topics for Discussion: • Some GIS Terms & Concepts • Current Projects and Issues • Questions and Answers

  3. Many GIS Projects: “Are started with little planning, little design, and great expectations”

  4. GIS Integrates Data Video GPS Satellite Photos GIS Aerial Photos Multi- Media Geographic Data RDBMS Business Data Cable

  5. Municipal GIS Applications: • Internet Mapping • Infrastructure Management • Emergency Services & Dispatching • Tax Mapping & Land Records • Environmental & Land Use Planning • Economic Development • Health & Human Services • Pavement & Bridge Management Systems • Schools, Libraries, and Public Access

  6. Benefits of GIS: • Improved information management • Increased information analysis potential • Data centrally located and avoids duplication • Extensive cost efficiencies – once systems are built • Increased data access for decision making • Increased access to information • Provide public access to government information

  7. 5 GIS Major Components • Hardware • Software • Data • Applications & Routines • People

  8. Types of GIS Products • On-line data access and analysis • Presentation & draft quality maps; slide shows • Tabular reports & print outs • Export files for electronic distribution • Make information available for the internet

  9. Major Costs Associated with GIS Implementation: • Data Development, Conversion & Maintenance (75%-80%) • Staffing (full-time GIS/technical support) • Consulting -Application Development/Programming -General; all areas of GIS • Hardware & Software (w/maintenance) • Operations/Materials & misc. support

  10. Cortlandt Croton-On-Hudson Greenburgh Harrison Hastings-on-Hudson Irvington Lewisboro Mamaroneck (Town/Village) Mount Kisco Mount Pleasant Mount Vernon New Castle New Rochelle North Castle North Castle North Salem Ossining (Town/Village) Pound Ridge Somers Yorktown Local Government Assistance:

  11. Westchester County-Sewer Lines

  12. Pound Ridge- Tax Maps

  13. County Base Mapping Project

  14. Primary Project Objectives: • Identify common base mapping needs for government, utilities, and business & professional organizations • Review administrative and administrative issues (FOIL, staffing, data distribution) • Review cost sharing options • Create Uniform, County-wide Digital Base Map

  15. Some Technical Specifications: • 2,200 countywide tiles • Color digital orthophotography • 1” = 100’ land base • 5’ contours • 35 features to be captured, including edge of payment, building footprints, normal planimetrics • Consistent with NYC database design • Seamless county-wide coverages • Municipal data “bundles” a deliverable in ArcView shapefile format

  16. At the direction of the County Executive, all County GIS data sharing requests and distribution policies are currently suspended and under review as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

  17. Pitfalls of a GIS • Overstating benefits • Failure to define goals • No long-term & strategic plan • Lack of management or technical support • Lack of user involvement/user training • Budget overrun (budget underestimation) • Hard to expand or modify existing/legacy systems

  18. GIS Myths: • GIS turns bad data into good data • GIS software has a “Just Do It” command • “You can save that in WORD format, right?” • GIS is a desktop publishing program • GIS can present everything on 8x11 paper in B/W • Staff don’t require training & education (No time!) • We’re going to make a lot of money selling this data! • That map can be scanned, right? • Buy just one copy & put it on every machine • Why are we replacing GIS with GPS? • “I can do this with MapQuest & MapBlaster, so…..”

  19. The IT Future Will Favor Spatial Data Investments That: • Multi-purpose • Maintained (updated) • Simple (minimum structure) • Integrated across disciplines • Standard Models • Documented (metadata) • Shared/Open

  20. Change Management: “Experience has shown that even the best technology strategies stand little chance of success if the workforce doesn’t accept and adopt them”

  21. Westchester County GIS Andrew J. Spano County Executive Sam Wear, GIS Manager stw1@westchestergov.com http://giswww.westchestergov.com

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