Farallon GIS and Location Technology Case Studies
Nothing shows Farallon's capabilities or commitment to customer satisfaction better than real-life case studies of our projects. Whether in a local government office, an emergency dispatch center, a transportation network, or a marketing and sales department, Farallon solutions are enabling businesses and governments to make better and faster operational decisions.
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Most recently posted case studies and client solutions
DNC National Election Precincts Dataset Development for 2008 Presidential Campaign
Voter record point data against a census block polygon layer
Challenge
Map the Vote, working with data from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) wanted to create a national election precinct GIS. But the costs and time required to produce the precincts layers using traditional GIS drawing methods were cost and time prohibitive.
Solution
Farallon developed automated geodatabase techniques and spatial analysis algorithms to process and validate millions of voter records. This enables organizations to cost-effectively microtarget voter turnout efforts for the 2008 Presidential campaign. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Voter Registration
Getty Conservation Institute Web-Based GIS for Managing Jordanian Antiquities
Challenge
The Getty Conservation Institute working with the World Monuments Fund and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities wanted to develop a new national GIS to assist in inventorying, monitoring, and managing the thousands of archaeological sites in Jordan
Solution
Farallon is developing a Web-based, bilingual (Arabic-English) system that will be used by inspectors, archaeologists, scholars, and government planners involved in cultural heritage management and research. The scalable solution using open source software, will subsequently be adapted for use in Iraq and possibly other countries in the region. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, GIS/IT Integration, Asset Management Systems, Geodatabase Design, Open Standards Solutions
City of San Francisco Bridge Preventative Maintenance Program Web Application
Challenge
The City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Works Bureau of Engineering collects and analyzes data on over 300 structures, including pedestrian over-crossing, roadway structures and bridges. The data was distributed across multiple systems in in several locations making it difficult to reliably query and visualize necessary asset information.
Solution
Farallon created a Bridge Preventative Maintenance Program web application to allow City staff, across departments, to view and query bridge inspection reports, field-verify noted deficiencies, and develop accurate cost estimates for the repairs and maintenance of deficiencies. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Enterprise Mashups, GIS/IT Integration, Asset Management Systems
Santa Clara County Pavement Management System - GIS Integration
Challenge
Santa Clara County wanted to integrate their pavement management system with their enterprise GIS and provide live-links between the two systems.
Solution
Farallon integrated MTC's StreetSaver Online pavement management software with ESRI's ArcGIS using the County's existing Microsoft Access database. The segmentation of the streets into paving sections is done dynamically using the Streetsaver database at the time the user requests the information so that the two datasets never get out of sync. Read more details...
Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Pavement Management
Farallon Helps Caltrans Improve Accuracy of States County Route Postmile System
Challenge
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) wanted to improve the accuracy of the county route postmile system by accurately determining locations where highways cross county lines.
Solution
Farallon helped Caltrans to determine locations of the intersection of highway centerline and county boundary crossings for selected sites, within 5 meters of true, using three different technical approaches to determining highway centerlines. Read more details...
Categories: Geodatabase Design, Transportation & Linear Networks, GPS Field Data Collection
City of San Mateo Master Address Database
Challenge
Addresses are a key dataset used by the City of San Mateo to provide essential services. No single complete, accurate, and current address list existed within the City that could be used as the authoritative list of business and residential locations. This limited the ability for City departments to coordinate efforts and integrate information across business systems.
Solution
Farallon designed and deployed a Master Address Database (MAD) as a central authoritative service for all City departments. The MAD offers increased data availability, reduced errors and maintenance, elimination of duplicate data, and enhanced City services. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Enterprise Mashups, GIS/IT Integration, Pavement Management, Asset Management Systems
Caltrans PEAR-STEVE Systems Evaluation
Challenge
The California Department of Transportation, Division of Environmental Analysis required a comprehensive system requirements evaluation for two projects: the Preliminary Environmental Analysis Report (PEAR) tool and the Standard Tracking and Exchange Vehicle for Environmental System (STEVE) project.
Solution
Farallon performed a comprehensive system requirements evaluation of the PEAR-Tool and STEVE projects and prepared a detailed System Requirements Specification report that documents the programs' functional and non-functional system requirements, use studies, interview data, and the perceived limitations of the program. Read more details...
Categories: Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment
City of Hayward integrates ESRI GIS with StreetSaver Online PMS
Challenge
The City of Hayward wanted to visualize their StreetSaver Online pavement management analyses using their ESRI GIS to create maps that could show both detailed street maps and pavement condition and maintenance information.
Solution
Farallon developed dynamic segmentation procedures to render StreetSaver information to the GIS. City staff could then use the GIS to perform spatial analysis, allowing them to quickly create maps showing the extent of distressed streets. Read more details...
Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Pavement Management
Farallon assists with litigation support
Challenge
A California legal firm was handling a dispute over a large parcel of real estate located in rural California. They needed a way for a San Francisco jury to visualize the size of the property.
Solution
Farallon used publicly available parcel data for the relevant areas and overlaid these outlines on a Google Earth orthophotograph of the City of San Francisco to show the property size in relationship to the size of San Francisco. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Property Review
City of Chula Vista uses dynamic segmentation to render StreetSaver information to the GIS
Challenge
The City of Chula Vista wanted the information in their ArcSDE GIS to be shared with a StreetSaver database.
Solution
Tools in ESRI's ArcGIS were used to develop dynamic segmentation procedures to render StreetSaver information to the GIS. The segmentation of the streets into paving sections is done dynamically using the StreetSaver database post mile data at the time the user requests the information so the two datasets remain in sync. Read more details...
Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Pavement Management