Project Profile

City of Corvallis, Oregon GIS Strategic and Implementation Plan

Client:
City of Corvallis, Oregon

Location:
Corvallis, Oregon

Timmons Group was hired by the City of Corvallis Oregon to develop a GIS Strategic and Implementation plan to leverage and consolidate its existing GIS initiatives into an Enterprise GIS. Timmons Group evaluated the current GIS status and developed strategic recommendations necessary to achieve successful Enterprise GIS services, development, and implementation.

Timmons Group tasks include:

• Assessment of the current systems, work processes, and user requirements
• Development of an enterprise GIS Vision and Mission statement
• Identification and application of Best Practices in enterprise GIS for local government
• Development of recommendations for Enterprise GIS
  • Organizational structure, governance, and staffing
  • Funding strategy and management
  • Data management and sharing
  • Training and education
  • Infrastructure (network, hardware, software)Relationships with external organizations (data sharing, regional initiatives, standardization, etc.)

Deliverable products

• GIS Strategic Plan document
• GIS Implementation and Migration Plan documentation

 

Project Profile

911 Infrastructure and Software Needs Assessment

Client:
City of Salem, Virginia

Location:
Salem, Virginia

Timmons Group was hired by the City of Salem, Virginia to assess the current state of the 9-1-1 Information Technology and make recommendations for improvement.  The goal was to create an IT environment that will enable the support of new technologies (Next generation 9-1-1) within the 9-1-1 center and support integration with other City IT efforts.

Timmons Group tasks included:

• Assessment of the current systems, work processes, and user requirements
• Development of recommendations for
  • Infrastructure (Servers, Networking, backup work processes)
  • Disaster Mitigation and Recovery
  • 9-1-1 mapping systems
  • Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)
  • Police Records Management (RMS)
  • Data management and sharing
  • Staffing, Training and education

Deliverable product:

• 9-1-1 Infrastructure and Software Needs Assessment Document

Project Profile

CADD to Geodatabase Migration and Enterprise GIS Implementation

Client:
Bedford County, Virginia

Location:
Bedford County, Virginia

As part of the FY 2007/2008 Virginia Wireless Services Board (WSB) grant program, Bedford County and the Bedford Communications Center, which jointly services Bedford City and County, undertook a comprehensive effort to move the County’s Geospatial program to a true Enterprise GIS environment. Undertaking a number of concurrent tasks, the County’s GIS office developed the necessary ESRI-based Land Records and E-911 Addressing and Emergency services Geodatabase models to support a variety of ongoing initiative, specifically modernization of the County’s legacy AutoCAD-based GIS.

In conjunction with Timmons Group, the County’s implementation partner, the County performed a complete CAD-to Geodatabase migration of cadastral and addressing databases, adapting the State’s Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) Road Centerline (RCL) data model. The migration and subsequent deployment of COTS data maintenance tools and ArcGIS Server based Web technologies have enabled to County’s GIS office to significantly reduce the time it takes to supply changes to the County’s current and future Computer Aided Dispatch applications.

The County has also contracted Timmons Group to implement and host Web LoGIStics, Timmons Group’s internet mapping technology designed for local governments. 

Services Provided

• System Migration planning and coordination
  
• ArcGIS data model design
  
• CADD to GIS data migration
  
• Migration to the statewide VBMP Road network
  
• CAMA / GIS Integration
  
• Internet Mapping Application design, development, and hosting
  
• Parcel  and Road LoGIStics Parcel Maintenance Software implementation and training

Project Profile

ArcGIS Server Replication for Automated E-911 Update

Client:
Harrisonburg/Rockingham Emergency Communication Center

Location:
Harrisonburg/Rockingham County, Virginia

Timmons Group was hired by the Harrisonburg/Rockingham Emergency Communication Center (HRECC) to design and implement a solution that supports near-real time Geospatial updates of critical infrastructure and address layers by both consolidating disparate data sets and facilitating the consumption of these layers into E-911 mapping system. The solution integrates ESRI’s ArcServer, ArcSDE, and the HRECC mapping software using ArcServer replication and automated extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools to seamlessly extract the updates from multiple sources, integrate data GIS data, and update the mapping system.

Tasks included:

• Assessment of the current systems, work processes, and user requirements
• Development of recommendations into a functional requirements document
• Implementation of the infrastructure, software, applications, workflows, a defined in the recommendations

Project Profile

Site LoGIStics - Comprehensive Internet Application

Client:
Winston-Salem Business Inc.

Location:
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina

Timmons Group contracted with the Winston-Salem Business Inc., the marketing and economic development organization representing Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina , to develop a comprehensive Internet application designed to enhance the ability to attract and promote business within the Region. Timmons Group, leveraging a combination of ESRI-based Server/Internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, has developed a highly advanced economic development and prospect recruitment software known as Site Logistics.      

One of the principal features of Site Logistics is the ability for WSBI to purchase a hosted (ASP) solution. The software leverages the most advanced applications development methods available in ESRI’s ArcGIS Server hosted on a robust multi-tier environment configured to use the constituents Enterprise data.

Internet-based Sites and Buildings search capabilities include:

• Property Search
  
• Text/Attribute based search
  
• Reporting/Output
  
• Property (Site/Building) Reporting
  
• Surrounding Businesses Reporting
  
• Demographics Reporting
  
• Report export to a variety of supported standard formats, including PDF, Excel and XML

Data Management Functionality:

• Site Logistics’ Administrative property management tools enable the efficient change or inclusion local site and building data. The functionality found in the Property Management component includes:
  
• Add new Property
  
• Edit existing Property
  
• Search for Property
  
• Attach Document to Properties
  
• Export Property Data

Project Profile

Site LoGIStics - Web Portal for Economic Development

Client:
Havover County, Virginia, Department of Economic
Development

Location:
Hanover County, Virginia

Timmons Group contracted with the Hanover County, VA Department of Economic Development to develop a comprehensive Internet application designed to enhance the ability to attract and promote business within the County. Timmons Group, leveraging a combination of ESRI-based Server/Internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, has developed a highly advanced Economic Development and prospect recruitment tool, known as Site Logistics.   Timmons Group’s software combines a companion desktop maintenance application to enable the maintenance of sites and buildings information necessary to feed the Site Logistics site, as well as the needs related to providing the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) with current building and site information in the required State database format.

One of the principal features of Site Logistics is the ability for Hanover County to purchase a hosted (ASP) solution. The software leverages the most advanced applications development methods available hosted on a robust multi-tier environment consisting of ArcIMS, SDE (ArcGIS Server) configured to use the County’s Enterprise Geodatabase data. The ASP service includes Monthly GIS database updates and Annual demographic database updates as they become available.

Internet-based Sites and Buildings search capabilities include:

• Property Search
  
• Text/Attribute based search
  
• Map Search
  
• Reporting/Output
  
• Property (Site / Building) Reporting
  
• Surrounding Businesses Reporting
  
• Demographics Reporting
  
• Report export to a variety of supported standard formats, including PDF, Word, Excel and XML.
  
• Data Management Functionality
  
• Site Logistics’ Desktop property management tools enable the efficient change or inclusion local suite and building data. The functionality found in the Property Management component includes:
  
• Add new Property
  
• Edit existing Property
  
• Search for Property
  
• Attach Document to Properties
  
• Export Property Data

 

Project Profile

Enterprise Asset/Work Order Management System

Client:
City of Richmond, Virginia Department of Public Works

Location:
Richmond, Virginia

Timmons Group is currently implementing a GIS-based Enterprise Asset/Work Order Management System for the City of Richmond, Virginia Department of Public Works (DPW).  The DPW has undertaken this project to integrate a variety of disparate legacy applications as well as improve its daily operating efficiencies and increase its level of service to customers.  This project will also establish a comprehensive inventory of all public works assets and will achieve American Public Works Association (APWA) accreditation for public works best management practices.

Scope of Services

Requirements Analysis & System Design

Conduct a series of implementation planning workshops for the purpose of defining critical success factors, work processes, data needs, work order/service order protocols, reporting requirements, etc.

Existing Data Analysis

Review and analyze each of the existing data sets that will need to be integrated with the new asset/work order management system including pavement distress data, stormwater system condition assessments and various other paper work order and permit documents.

Database Design

Develop the customized UNITRANS and Cityworks (CMMS) database design required to support linear referencing and asset/work order management activities within the City’s existing ArcGIS geodatabase.

Legacy Application Discovery & Interface Design & Implementation

Perform a detailed review of the multiple legacy applications (Permitting, Payroll, Finance, Central Address Database, CMRS, etc.) that the planned asset management system will be expected to either replace or interface with as part of the overall enterprise implementation.  

The results of this effort will yield a Functional Requirements Document (FRD) capable of supporting the development of the required application interfaces (customized programming).

Base Implementation

Install, configure, tune, test, load, etc. the base asset/work order management software packages (Cityworks) throughout the department.

Asset Capture

Deploy state-of-the-art van-based image capture and terrestrial photogrammetry techniques to locate all of DPW’s above ground assets visible within the public right-of-way of an approximately 1,000 road network.  

A variety of point and linear assets will be captured on digital images, extracted to sub-meter accuracy, integrated with the existing base GIS data sets and loaded into the GIS and asset management software applications.

Point Features:

• Bridges
• Crosswalks
  
• Drainage structures
  
• Traffic signs
  
• Pavement markings
  
• Utility poles
  
• Parking meters
  
• Speed humps
  
• Railroad crossings
  
• Fire hydrants
  
• Manholes
  
• Valves
  
• Street trees

Linear Features: 

• Surface type (pavement management)
  
• Median type
  
• Traffic direction  
  
• Speed limit zones
  
• School zones   
  
• Shoulders   
  
• Curbs   
  
• Ditches   
  
• Guardrails   
  
• Sidewalks   
  
• Pavement striping