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Project Goal

Boise City Public Works GIS Division is in the process of developing ArcSDE geodatabases that support utility billing, permit planning, and licensing applications. A common attribute component for each of these applications is a site address. An ArcSDE address geodatabase is necessary to limit redundancy, increase efficiency, and support “near real-time” data entry/delivery.

The City is currently working to deploy, through the .NET framework, an ArcGIS Server application that integrates the address data store with a variety of desktop, and web applications. In addition to public works, the vision includes developing “Server GIS” applications that integrate information systems in other City business units and eventually a regional portal that points to ArcGIS Server applications that enhance Valley-wide spatial datasets.

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Business Problem Solved

Addresses are used throughout the City of Boise for business functions including emergency services, utility billing, building permits, a wide variety of licensing, library patrons, and users of the parks department programs. In general each of these functions are considered essential to the City of Boise.

Each of these functions/departments stores its own, stand-alone set of addresses. Before the GIS migration project began, rarely, if ever, were the data cross-checked to ensure that the data was consistent and accurate. Additionally, each function/department used its own data model for addresses making address matching/comparison difficult and time-consuming. Creating maps of locations based upon addresses stored in databases external to GIS usually required days of data QC, error correction, and data manipulation.

Technology Implemented

ArcSDE Geodatabase on SQL Server
ArcIMS
ArcGIS Server
.NET
ASP.NET

Development Team Biography

Jim Hetherington - GIS Coordinator
Jimae Haynes - GIS Programmer Analyst
Eric Wing - GIS Analyst
Barbara Edney - GIS Analyst
April Wing - GIS Technician
Karan Waters - Program Technician (Addressing)
David Berry - GIS Database Administrator