SERUG Underway

SERUG is well underway here in Jacksonville. Wakeup temps are cooler than normal for this part of the country. Ate lunch in the Landing yesterday. About 650 people are here. Had a great opening social here in the conference exhibit area last night. Today is packed with sessions of all [...]

City of Lebanon goes live with GEOpowered

The City of Lebanon is now live with their very own GEOpowered Interactive Mapping site. Lebanon is the latest Wilson County city to come online with city-specific data in addition to Wilson County basemap data. This site will make it very easy for residents and city officials to quickly find useful city and [...]

City of Decatur and Morgan County Alabama go GEOpowered

In an effort to update their online mapping experience and the technology that goes with it, the City of Decatur and Morgan County AL Revenue Commissioner, through a joint venture, have partnered with GEO-Jobe GIS to provide GEOpowered Interactive Mapping technology to their internal users and constituents.
We are really excited here at GEO-Jobe because this [...]

Vanderbilt upgrades Emergency Alert System

Vanderbilt University, a long time client of GEO-Jobe GIS, has recently upgraded its emergency alert system to a new system developed by Gallatin based W.A.R.N. (Wide Area Rapid Notification). The W.A.R.N. system provides multiple format rapid alerts to student and faculty in response to threats from tornados and other dangers via alerting mechanisms like [...]

McMinn County GEOpowered gets press from Chattanooga Times

The Chattanooga Times Free Press today released a nice article about McMinn’s new GEOpowered site. One of the interviewees in the article said it best.
Athens surveyor Christian Medders said the new site has made his job easier. “It’s one of the best in the state,” Mr. Medders said.
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TNGIC Update - its next week?

So where does the time go that it’s almost TNGIC time again? It’s going to be a great event this year with some folks you are familiar with organizing it again - and doing a great job I might add. GEO-Jobe is heading up the Geo-cache event and Cliff is out capturing a [...]

McMinn County GEOpowered Kickoff Huge Success

McMinn County did this one right. Planning in advance with GEO-Jobe, the McMinn Co Assessors Office distributed invitations, got the local paper involved, and setup a open forum in the commission chambers for the unveiling of the new county GEOpowered website. Eighty people from various county and city agencies as well as local [...]

McMinn County, TN Launches Interactive Mapping Site

McMinn County, TN has joined the list of GEOpowered mapping sites in TN today. Spearheaded by Assessor of Property Don Cowart and GIS Manager Jeremy Brack, McMinn is providing an essential service to its County employees and also to the public within and around the County. The McMinn interactive GEOpowered mapping site will be introduced [...]

McMinn County GEOpowered Site To Go Live Next Thursday

McMinn County, TN will soon join the list of GEOpowered mapping sites in TN. Spearheaded by Assessor of Property Don Cowart and GIS Manager Jeremy Brack, McMinn will soon provide an essential service to its County employees and also to the public within and around the County. The McMinn interactive GEOpowered mapping site [...]

Not Everyone Knows GIS - So why do we continue to build web maps like they do?

A large majority of the interactive GIS web maps published online today are unusable to the general public. Don’t get me wrong, as a GIS user there are some really great, feature rich and informative sites that serve their purpose as well as their audience. But for the non-GIS user, the sites that are specifically [...]