Tuesday 20 November 2012

Single Release - We Are Times

My Nephew Mike Long released this single.

http://soundcloud.com/leskiv/we-are-times-1



Geomapix Gateway November Newsletter is Out! - Local Government & Community Engagement

This month’s newsletter highlights the Association of Municipal Administrators 2012 Conference in Halifax, NS, Canada on November 6 -9. LGS Inc. was an exhibitor at the conference highlighting the Local Information Utility (LIU) , GIS for Local Government. The theme of the conference was Community Engagement and the role that technology plays within local government in engaging communities.


So grab a coffee and check it out!

Tuesday 30 October 2012

NFLD Tourism Department Project - New way of creating maps quickly

We are designing a GIS Enterprise for the Newfoundland & Labrador Tourism Department. The project began with the re design of the NFLD Road Map. The Road Map has been part of the annual tourism package for all visitors to NFLD since the early 1990's. 

Our design is different because we have built the map around a GIS Enterprise instead of the static CorelDraw version of old. This will allow us to prepare the map for publication to a web mapping application. Also, with the data residing in a GIS we can add multiple themes to the base map to make some cool maps quickly.






Tuesday 16 October 2012

Geomapix Newsletter October Newsletter is Out


This month we look at applications of GIS within our Local Information Utility. We specifically look at the the importance and relationship to climate change.


Read Newsletter


Friday 14 September 2012

Geomapix Gateway's September Newsletter is out! We are comparing Esri and Google Map application potential and what we are doing. Plus a little cloud service comparison.

Newsletter

Municipality of Digby GIS going online!

Municipality of Digby developing GIS web applications with Geomapix Gateway's Local Information Utility webGIS services.


Friday 27 July 2012


Check out this mapping app. where when you open the website the map will zoom into your area, you can search for your street, turn satellite imagery on a add a pothole on your street. Man, the more red locations are on the map, the more severe it looks.

http://www.geomapix.com/Potholes/


Thursday 19 July 2012

A Case Study - Local Government's Finding Big Cost Savings with Virtual GIS/IT Services

Whether you are a small or large municipality; The LIU has always been about inspiring policymakers with the opportunities for data and analytics to transform public service. The technology is present and affordable to implement a GIS system that is smart, flexible, scalable, and mobile.
The LIU technology is reducing paperwork, connecting departments, speeding up data retrieval,allowing for future trending, and revealing easy access GIS for front-line staff that provide information services to their citizens. The LIU is reducing data quality issues and allows an entire authority to manage their GIS, without being a GIS professional.

See it here

Our newest client is the Municipality of Barrington, in Nova Scotia, Canada . Until this spring, they were using a shared GIS and Planning service with a local district planning commission. Suddenly they were left with a DVD of their GIS and no way to implement, manage, update, or distribute location based data. 
Creating a GIS department was impossible because of costs being a minimum of $80 000 per year and attracting talented professionals to a rural area can be challenging. So the LIU takes care of the technology and GIS, so the staff can open a browser window, log into their GIS gateway and can get an all-inclusive and real time look at location based information services. 

The Barrington GIS is maintained by our LIU technical team that acts as a virtual GIS department and averages one billing hour of work per week. From a budget stand point, the yearly LIU hosting and virtual services for Barrington will costs around a dollar per year for each man, woman, and child within the municipality.
For our clients that have a GIS professional on staff, the LIU alleviates the pressures of delivering information in traditional formats like hard copy maps and excel reports. The technician can move forward with management and enhancing their GIS to deliver efficiency to the authority. 

The LIU is really about building a sustainable technology platform for a GIS department, that never shuts down and is allows up-to-date so that staff can concentrate on enhancing their GIS to create better decision making tools for administrators. We offer a visually enhanced interface so that internal and external stakeholders can see information quickly and easily to make critical decisions based on facts; which do not lie.
In recent months, we have seen a tremendous amount of interest in building a regional GIS from neighboring small municipalities in rural Nova Scotia. They are seeing the benefits of having access to data anytime, and the core function of any GIS is to reduce duplication of effort. 

So we have designed several key GIS templates like wastewater and permits so that municipalities can work together to build a common or regional GIS. GIS infrastructure like the LIU can be cost shared and paying for only the services they need, reduces costs significantly to maintain and enhance the entire system. 

Check out the application.