Greetings A friend in Oregon state government has a fairly ambitious web-based GIS project. A brief description—take all land use records from all state, county and local government offices and digitize them, with metadata, make everything queryable within a performant web-based geoservices platform. It's envisioned that this could be used by policymakers, economic development groups, individuals, transportation planning, and many other stakeholders. In his words, they want to take Oregon state GIS "from 1989 to 2020" in one fell swoop.
The project is in (at least) two phases. The first, which would begin immediately, is to interview stakeholders and create an implementation plan—what does the application(s) look like, resources, timing, expertise, etc…There's money for that. The second phase is build, and there's also money for that. It's envisioned there will be more money as the application can be shown off to various stakeholders. Phase one begins immediately and phase two would start in mid-summer. There's a strong interest in using the best geo has to offer—that means not being bound by traditional tools/services/infrastructure. Open source/AWS is encouraged, and he's excited about having multiple firms/consultants working on different elements of the project (ie, data sourcing, db design, app dev, UI, project management, etc…). I'm guarding this a bit close to the vest as I don't want my friend to get bombarded with email, so if you are interested in knowing more let me know and I can put you in touch. I == Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc 26 O'Farrell Street Suite 310 San Francisco CA 94108 T.415.946.8170 X800 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com
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