DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM:

Geographic Information System (GIS) Division of the Information Systems Department

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

The purpose of the GIS Division is to define, design and deliver an organized, shared geospatial-centric information infrastructure that enables our county to manage data and resources using a cost effective county wide enterprise approach.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS YEAR:

1. Designed, installed and fully configured a new 4 terabyte Storage Area Network (SAN) complete with multiple host bus adapters, fiber channel switching and back up and recovery resulting in high availability and high performance suitable for the mission critical data storage needs of county departments, constitutional offices and other agencies.

2. Designed, installed and fully configured a VMware ESX 2 server cluster environment and 3x2 Microsoft clusters (MSCS) fully integrated with our SAN to provide high availability application and database servers to county departments, constitutional offices and other agencies.
3. Migrated Growth Management Permit and Inspection system from Informix Dynamic Server running on IBM AIX RISC 6000 to a Microsoft Sql Server Cluster environment resulting in better availability and performance.
4. Created, collected, processed and managed GIS related data, maps and websites for over 14 jurisdictions within Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties in support of the Joint Land Use Study (JLUS). Created and maintain the main JLUS website. Defined, designed and delivered the Military Operations Planning and Analysis Module (MOPAM) aka the Compatibility Planning and Analysis Module (CPAM) prototype in preparation to support the resulting Growth Management Planning effort for the entire region.
5. Redesigned and migrated the Water and Sewer subsurface utility “Trimble” data collection system from Constantine Engineering to Okaloosa County GIS.
6. Defined, designed, developed and implemented the complete Public Works storm water “Cartegraph” data collection system fully integrated with GIS. Working on implementing a comprehensive work order, pavement and signage management system as part of the final solution to integrate Public Works, GIS and other county data into a comprehensive decision support system.
7. Performed extensive QA/QC of current 9-1-1 and GIS addressing procedures and data in support of current technology and in preparation for the new Patriot and Mapstar systems. This effort resulted in significant changes to enable better automated mapping when time is of the essence. This is an ongoing effort with the goal of designing and implementing a complete 9-1-1 GIS integrated MSAG addressing solution for Public Safety.
8. Processed and/or performed over 1,700 Sunshine One fiber utility locates to protect the integrity of the county wide fiber network. Created and submitted over 25 fiber related construction permits while integrating new survey grade GPS equipment and software.
9. Tested and selectively implemented a new ArcGIS Server and application development environment. These new technologies will replace our current Internet Map Service (IMS) environment and allow GIS to more effectively design and serve websites, data and resources to departments, agencies and the public. County GIS related websites will be faster, more user friendly and provide a better overall experience to our entire user community.
10. Daily administration, management and maintenance of all GIS related hardware, software, data, websites and personnel necessary to keep the enterprise GIS/IT related functions of the county operational and effective. This is already a baseline 24x7 effort and clearly diverts staff resources away from otherwise new county initiatives.

PROGRAM GOAL:

The goal of the GIS Division is to provide robust, user friendly access to “on demand” geospatial data and systems for critical government services that affect the citizens of our county.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

1. Continue to leverage key development environments to produce maintainable, highly effective software applications.
2. Create a highly available (HA) GIS/IT infrastructure to insure mission critical applications and data services are available 24x7
3. Coordinate and facilitate interdepartmental and interagency cooperation to reduce duplication of effort and wasted resources.
4. Work with federal, state and local governments to create and facilitate cost sharing strategies.
5. Increase efficiency with technological innovation.

PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

GIS related projects and tasks logged and managed using customized windows share point services, recently implemented database management software to monitor and report on standard statistical metrics to help determine efficiency of system architecture, fulfilled over 500 external requests for data and services, processed over 3,000 basic geospatial data edit functions, handled over 65,000 hits to GIS related websites, processed and modeled over 500 square miles of digital elevation and planimetric data, modified over 575 reports for the county permit and inspection system and managed over 4 terabytes of geospatial and other mission critical data sets.