City of Midland, Texas

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Project Goal

The City of Midland, Texas with a population of approximately 100,000 has a vision of
a true enterprise GIS solution with a wide variety of users. The City of Midland has had a functional GIS since 1993. However, not until recently has the City of Midland realized the true benefit of a Multiuser Geodatabase.

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Business Problem Solved

The GIS Division developed Intranet ArcIMS applications for all City Departments so city employees could utilize the GIS with little or no training. This has improved the way we do business in several ways. GIS Division staff no longer has to maintain two copies of the data because the ArcIMS applications are accessing the most current data on ArcSDE. Previously, the MapObjects applications relied on Shapefiles as their primary data source. Relying on Shapefiles is no longer necessary because the ArcIMS applications have allowed us to phase out the MapObjects applications. This has helped GIS Division staff because we no longer have to maintain a desktop application for the majority of our users. All the end user needs is a web browser to utilize the GIS applications.

The City of Midland GIS website allows anyone to view Internet ArcIMS applications, download Shapefiles or AutoCAD DWG files, and view or download static PDF maps.

Technology Implemented

ArcSDE 9x
Oracle 9i
ArcIMS 9x
Geosmart.net
Visual Studio 2005 (custom buttons and tools)

Development Team Biography

Todd Smith, GISP, GIS Division Manager
Chuck Chamberlin, GISP, GIS Lead Analyst
Curtis Alexander, GIS Specialist
Steve Baker, GIS Technician
Ray Jimenez, GIS Database Administrator
Eddie Saenz, GIS Developer
Todd Alvis, Previous GIS Database Administrator