The City of Jackson, TN is the latest GEO-Jobe GIS Geopowered site to go live. This new site is part of a bigger project GEO-Jobe is involved in with Jackson to develop an Enterprise GIS. Utilizing ESRI ArcGIS server technology, several city agencies, including planning and police, will begin sharing data between eachother and with Madison County agencies, like the Assessor’s office. One of the big goals of this project is to reduce costs by eliminating data duplication. Many times cities and counties have data that could be shared, but are limited by connectivity or technology. GEO-Jobe is helping Jackson and Madison County remain current while making the best use of tax-payer dollars. With budgets being reduced in nearly every community in the US, using tax dollars wisely is at the forefront many city leaders minds.
Please visit the City of Jackson Geopowered site and take it for a spin.
We ended our weeklong trip across Tennessee in Jackson last Friday. It seemed like as the week progressed, our demo got a little better. We’ll be doing them again down the road so keep you eyes on the lookout.
Here are some pictures from the week. I think I need a new camera phone. These pictures are not great.
Chattanooga
Jackson
The annual MAGIC GIS Day conference has been a great success. Here, yours truly and Mike Brewer from Poplar Grove Utility District (one of our clients) show off the GEO-Jobe booth. Richard Duncan presented our Field to Finish solution yesterday before a packed crowd at the Germantown Athletic Club.
This year GEO-Jobe is also showing off the latest Trimble gear, the Nikon Wi-Fi cameras that link wirelessly to the GeoXH, and the LaserTech TruPulse 360B which is a great bluetooth laser rangefinder.
Join us tomorrow for the Middle Tennessee GIS User Conference in Nashville. That is sure to be a fun day as well.
GEO-Jobe GIS is pleased to call Putnam County, TN our newest GEOpowered interactive mapping client. Rhonda Chaffin, Putnam County Assessor of Property, and her staff provided us with their requirements and data and the development team at GEO-Jobe went to work. The result is a very fast and efficient web-based alternative to calling or visiting the Assessor’s office for basic property related information. On the Putnam County GEOpowered site you’ll be able to search via the interactive map using standard tools like zoom and pan, plus you’ll have full text search capabilities of Parcel ID, Owner Name, Address, Subdivision, and more.
The beauty of GEOpowered is in its non-GIS approach from a user’s perspective. Most people accessing our GEOpowered client sites are non-GIS professionals who only want to get in and get out with up to date property information. This makes GEOpowered a superior decision support tool. With more to do and less people to do it within the Putnam County Assessor’s office, this means fewer office requests for basic information, freeing up Putnam County staff to stay focused on appraisals and administration of property data. Plus, GEO-Jobe is implementing geodatabase data replication between the county and our secure data center making the update process seamless and automated on a nightly basis.
The GEO-Jobe staff are very professional. We have found turn around time on questions or data change request is very fast and effecient. They have been most helpful in explaining “computer-gis” talk to us in terms we can use and understand. I am very proud to be working with them. – Rhonda L. Chaffin, Putnam County TN Assessor of Property
Putnam County, with its seat in Cookeville, TN, has a population of over 45,000 and manages over 35,000 parcels.
TN opens up its voting booths early, and purely for convenience. This is really nice because a lot of us can’t afford to take time off from work on that one day of the year when civic duty calls the loudest. TN is also fortunate to have a nice new State website where anything voting related is just a click away. Early voting locations are scattered throughout each county in the state making it nearly impossible to find an excuse not to vote. I had a change of address this year. I went in to Prairie Fitness in Cool Springs, one of the early voting locations in Williamson County, and filled out my change of address form right there. All I needed was my original voter registration card and drivers license. 3 minutes later I was standing at the computer screen with my daughter who is 8. She was really excited that she got to push the selections on the touch screen (great teaching opportunities are always available if you look for them). 3 minutes later and we were done. Got the sticker to prove it.
Remember, you don’t need a reason to vote early. Just show up at your nearest early voting location which are usually open from 9am – 7pm, including Saturdays. Here are couple of links that will help you find what you need to vote this year.
Early Voting: October 15th , 2008 through October 30th , 2008
Voter Registration Lookup (check your voting location)
Fall is a great time of year to be a GIS professional in TN. Coming up in just a few days is an ESRI sponsored event for those of you interested in learning more about the new ArcGIS 9.3. Zach Layne of ESRI will be hosting a free seminar entitled “ArcGIS 9.3 Seminar: Improving Your Entire GIS Workflow”. The seminar will be held on October 30 in Franklin, TN at Franklin Marriott in Cool Springs. For more information, you can go here.
On November 3rd, the East TN GIS Fall Conference will take place in Kingsport at the MeadowView Conference Center.
On November 18-19, the 8th annual MAGIC GIS Day conference will get underway. More info here.
Finally, on November 20-21, Middle TN gets its chance to shine with the Middle TN GIS User Group conference. You can learn more here.
So there you have it. Get out an enjoy the beautiful state we live in.
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GEO-Jobe is offering an Intro to ArcGIS II class in two weeks. It is a 3-day class beginning on July 29th. Cost is $1,250. The class is going to be held at our Nashville corporate training facility. To learn more and to register, visit the training page of our website.
Approximately two miles of Interstate 40 in Knoxville will be closed to all traffic for 14 months as TDOT’s SmartFIX40 program gets going. SmartFIX is TDOT’s accelerated repair program which requires a portion of a highway or interstate to be fully closed. This provides a faster turnaround time by maximizing the construction window to a full 24 hours when necessary. TDOT has been getting people ready by advertising (Dolly Parton has a PSA on TV about it) and by setting up detours in advance. If you are traveling east/west or west/east on 40 through Knoxville, you’ll need to take I-640 across the top of the city which only delays the trip by a few minutes.
If you’ve traveled through Knoxville at all in the last several years, you’ve seen the need for repairs and probably seen existing construction. This road closure will be between Exits 388A (James White Parkway) and 389 (Hall of Fame Drive) on I-40.
A few links for those traveling regularly through the area.
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 property information with just a couple of clicks.
Want to find out when the next Mosquito spraying will occur in your neighborhood? How about when the next pickup and chipper service will be driving through? Interested in the zoning code for your property? You can find that and more with a visit to the Lebanon GEOpowered Interactive Mapping site.
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