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City of New Orleans
Project Goal
The City of New Orleans GIS (NOGIS), under the direction of the Mayor's Office of Technology, mission is to coordinate the application of GIS technology to improve business processes that cross many departments and agencies. Through its Enterprise GIS implementation, the City seeks to establish a direct connection between GIS and the City's strategic objectives that encourages GIS coordination between City departments and other governmental agencies.
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Business Problem Solved
While New Orleans has many charms for visitors, troubling “quality of life” issues – among them crime, abandoned properties, potholes and flooding — keep major business enterprises away.
Thus, one of Mayor Nagin’s first priorities was assessing the city’s needs:
How many abandoned properties are there and where are they located? Could they be bundled and developed for residential or commercial uses?
Which buildings need to be demolished, and which could be “adopted” by first-time low-income homebuyers?
Where are the worst drainage and street-repair problems?
Key to addressing these issues was a technology infrastructure capable of connecting many departments and databases together so that multi-disciplinary and comprehensive strategies could be developed. But the high-tech Mayor found his city mired in a low-tech environment of paper records, software that could not interface across departments, and a GIS system unable to track by parcel address.
Technology Implemented
To address these concerns, the Mayor’s Office of Technology reinvented the Enterprise GIS concept. The focus of the implementation was on building spatial framework layers, a robust system capable of facilitating Citywide access in a multi-user environment and a web-based application for viewing and querying. The framework layers identified as the foundation for enterprise development were parcels and address points.
The enterprise data is maintained on two (2) clustered Dell Power Edge (PE) 2650 servers using ArcSDE and SQL Server as the RDBMS environment. The storage for the repository is SAN based with 1.2 terrabytes of dedicated storage capacity.
A two-tiered solution was implemented for the map serving architecture using ArcIMS. The implementation consist of two (2) Dell PE 2650 configured as a spatial and application server for load balancing. This configuration exists in both the DMZ and intranet environment.
Development Team Biography
Management
Greg Meffert, Chief Information Officer
Marseyas Fernandez, GIS Manager
Data Development and Editing
Salome Boyd - GIS Specialist
Jimontanae Rax - GIS Specialist
Dalta Watts - Database Technicians
Toni Berry - Database Technicians
Spatial Data Inc.
Application Development
Scott Domke - Web Applications Development
Bowne Management System, Inc.
Partners
Committee for Better New Orleans
Algiers Economic Development Foundation
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