Minnesota’s Three Rivers Park District Becomes a Smart Park
The park district’s GIS department moved to a centralized GIS program that replaced the district’s disjointed system of datasets.
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5 Steps for Using GIS to Combat COVID-19
In what ways is GIS being used to combat the coronavirus spread? Esri’s Chief Medical Officer outlined five steps GIS responders can take.
Missouri State Parks Ease Response to Flooding With GIS
Flooding is a recurring threat for the Missouri state park system because many of its parks lie along major rivers. They found a GIS solution that automated and streamlined information to share with stakeholders and the public.
The 4 GIS Technology Tenets to Revolutionize Smart Parks
At GovLoop’s online training, industry experts with park agency backgrounds spoke about how GIS can help park agencies maintain and manage smart parks.
ODOT’s Virtual Highway Corridor
The Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Virtual Highway Corridor (VHC) Project has integrated data sources from across the agency and made them available through an internal web portal to provide a comprehensive snapshot to improve efficiency, safety, and accuracy. Read how it was done.
Scooters, Begone or Be Regulated With GIS
Nashville is one of many metropolitan municipalities looking to manage the influx of micromobility — that is, scooters. These vehicles and others like it have cropped up almost overnight with city officials scrambling to regulate them.
Why Data is the ‘Next Gold Mine’
An expert in government technology says that data enables several promising tools that agencies can use for mission success.
Esri’s Story Maps Chart a Course for Government’s Future
There may not be a map to the future, but Esri’s story map technology certainly seems to be taking us in the right direction.
How GIS Achieves Civic Inclusion
Geographic information systems (GIS) — an online spatial tool for data collection, management and analysis that is rooted in geography— has been acknowledged as a foundational platform in building smart community strategies worldwide.
Top 5 GIS Resources to Be Locationally Intelligent
When it comes to tackling issues like the opioid epidemic, disease transmission, reducing homelessness, civic inclusion and more, government has especially utilized GIS to serve their citizens and residents.
