The Best Kept Secret

G.I.S.

The Problem E-911

• Intersection Signs

• Residentail Markers (house numbers)

• Ordering

• Manufacture

• Installation

• Quality Control

How??

• Order 9700 sign blades

• Package per Township

• Provide maps for locates/install

• QC legend/install/location/inventory

• Over 400,000 $ project

I hate making the same map

• Needed 2232• Boring• Doesn’t Promote GIS• Paper is outdated

The Solution

• 62 Township Maps W/int#

• Emerency service Handbook

• GPS

• Arc Explorer

WIN WIN AND WIN!!!

• Project completed on time

• QC provided

• Inventory made

• Highway Dept/Arcview /Trained

THE BIG WIN

• I am out of the Interection signage buisness

• GIS has been promoted in our agency

Project #2

• Over 20,000 house numbers (res markers)

• Gopher one state

• Maps maps and more maps

• designed by route for install

• limitaions on manufacture/install

• <440,000 $

A WHOLE LOT OF MAPS

• Provide QC• List by route• provide maps for

locates/bidder• Package signs/pick• Correct spot/out of

order

Can laziness be a driving force ?

• Yes for me, its easier to talk and train then get work done.

Laziness/Bid Spec’s/GIS

• Ye shall have a lap top for each crew

• Ye shall cut thy own database/route

• Ye shall make thy own maps

• Ye shall work out packaging/manufacture

• Ye shall use Arc View

• Ye shall get drug into the 21st century

• Ye shall do it cheeper/using Arc View

Laziness/Bid Spec’s/GIS

• We shall provide training

• We shall hold you to the data base

• We shall validate your computer procedures

• We shall come in on time??? 500/day

• We shall come in on budget???

It Works!

• Successful bidder / Arc Explorer

• Loves the way they can plan project

• All Data at finger tips/new/old/name ect

• Measuring tools/driveways/structures

• Packaging/manufacture doesn’t care.

BIG PRESENTATION

• Dedicated Pro’s

• Problem Solvers

• ??????????/come from

OTC/PLAN/SMALL

• INTRODUCE Arc Explorer

• Let them get their feet wet.

• Free

• Give them the power of GIS

A Race Car needs a driver

• Start with a go cart

• Transmission experts

• Engine Experts

• Limitations on both

• Get the professional to drive it.

• OTC PLAN OF ATTACK