Farallon Enterprise GIS Presentations
Farallon is highly active in the Geospatial and Enterprise GIS community and we have written several whitepapers, presentations and technical briefs.
This presentation from CaGIS 2010 explores a centrally available, authoritative address system as a critical tool to streamline the business of government and corporations. It covers the features of this system including a Master Address Database for managing addresses, their spatial relationships with parcels, streets, apartments, units and lineage requirements. The entire system is built on Open Source software.
This presentation at CalGIS 2007 explores how Google Maps, Google Earth, MS Virtual Earth and other emerging technologies can be integrated with traditional GIS tools such as geodatabases and ArcGIS server to deliver useful "enterprise mashups" to to dramatically improve the dissemination of GIS data and analyses to people while significantly reducing the cost of deploying and maintaining GIS.
This presentation at CalGIS 2007 explores innovative strategies and technologies that will enhance the value of investment in GIS, including decentralized databases and non-traditional visualization tools.
This presentation to the MISAC Northern California Chapter Meeting Nov 2007 discusses how organizations can deploy GIS solutions that leverage spatially aware relational database management systems like Oracle Express, free SOA-based mapping API's like Google Maps and Google Earth, and open source software like Autodesk Mapguide to manage data, integrate systems, and deliver compelling geospatial applications for a fraction of the cost of traditional GIS.
This presentation to the July 2006 BAAMA meeting discusses using Oracle Express, web services, JSON and Google Maps API to create a sophisticated decison support solution for hazard abatement anaylysis.
This presentation to the Location Intelligence Conference April 2006 discusses using Oracle 10g Spatial for a series of pre-processing services and custom data structures for the intensive large volume geoprocessing for Quality Planning Corporation ("QPC"), a risk managment insurance company.
This presentation to the Oracle Spatial User's Conference in April 2006 discusses usage scenarios of Oracle Spatial for logisitics including: Network Data Models (NDM) to generate paths based on network, costs, and constraints; Linear Referencing Systems (LRS) to support along-path distance determination, drive times and situational awareness (i.e., more than just dynamic segmentation); and using an Application Server Mapviewer to generate dynamic data-driven maps for inclusion into business applications.
This overview whitepaper for the County of San Mateo Public Works Department highlights their work with Farallon Geographics to produce an automated, user-intuitive integration process between their Hansen asset management system and the County's enterprise-level GIS. The Oracle Spatial supported solution allows for automatic data updates, ensuring system synchronization and minimizing the risks associated with error-prone human tabular data entry.
This presentation to the ESRI Business Partner Expo on November 2 introduces the concept of a Master Address Database (MAD) and the advantages it provides in meeting business objectives. By deploying a single, centralized MAD, cities and counties can solve the problem of duplicated and error-prone addresses. In order to maximize usefulness, the MAD must be spatially-enabled (e.g. related to geographical location through the visualization using maps) and integrated with other business systems.
This presentation to the ESRI 2005 user conference in July 2005 discusses the City of Fairfiled GIS portal for interdepartmental collaboration and property management: what it does, why it is successful and how it was built technically.
This presentation to the GIS-T conference in April 2005 discusses the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) state highway LRS data model, highlighting its capabilities for managing multiple LRMs, multiple cartographic representations, and historical route lineage management.
This presentation to the Northern CA chapter of URISA on 05/11/2005 discusses the important considerations for achieving high business value when implementing GIS on the Web. It notes that a key aspect of Web GIS is that it will not look like "traditional GIS" and will instead use GIS as a technology to answer specific business or operational questions.
This presentation to the Oracle Spatial Users Conference on 03/10/2005 discusses the GIS architecture behind San Mateo County's Enterprise GIS. The Oracle Spatial database focused architecture insulates the system from variations in GIS technology, improves efficienty and plays an active role in the entire enterprise geodata lifecyle.
This presentation to GeoForum on 02/23/2005 discusses the purpose and implementation of a Master Address Database (MAD). A single, centralized MAD can solve the problem of duplicated and error-prone addresses. In order to maximize usefulness, the MAD must be spatially-enabled (e.g. related to geographical location through the visualization of maps) and integrated with other business systems.
This presentation to the Norcal URISA Chapter Meeting on 02/09/2005 discusses the purpose and implementation of an Enterprise Geodatabase. In particular it helps explain the differences between legacy database approaches and using Oracle Spatial for an enterprise-scale, "best-of-breed" GIS solutions. Several case study examples are explored.
This article was first published Oct 1, 2004 in GeoSpatial Solutions Magazine and discussed how San Mateo County worked with Farallon Geographics to use GIS to develop a Get-Out-the-Vote drive that was cost-effectively tailored to different minority needs. The solution integrated GIS with census data to allow precision canvassing of target areas for voter registration efforts.
This reprint from an article in GeoSpatial Solutions Magazine discusses using an islandwide GIS implemented by Farallon to track the location, disposition, and handling of every suspected unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, recovered from the island of Kaho'olawe. This GIS also became an integral resource to track the locations of historically significant sites, natural resources, endangered species, and environmental hazards.
A presentation to the BAAMA July 2004 on the use of modular Web Services for liquid fuel pipeline incident management for Kinder Morgan.
This reprint from an article in GeoSpatial Solutions Magazine discusses the use of Portal technology to integrate and present data from paper records, geodatabases, GIS software, and nonspatial databases and applications. Topics include how portals and portlets operate, the ROI of open APIs, modular application building and the fundamental difference between a portal and a Web site.
A presentation on the use of Web Services in Enterprise GIS including geocoding, spatial analyses, map creation, and simple geodatabase maintenance.
This composite homeland security solution illustrates how our solution can leverage existing tools (forms, reports, data) and applications critical to the first responders in public safety, health, and emergency medical services.
A presentation covering case studies for: Walnut Creek with 70+ maps for their General Plan, each different data about the city; the City of Fairfield with map books, each 140-195 pages, of their sewer, water and storm systems; and CSES - Strategic Encroachment Study with 5 presentation size maps with a unified look and feel.
This presentation cover the case of using Oracle Spatial including: direct interoperability across GIS products, existing Oracle investment (systems/expertise), scalability (> 500M), database-centric philosophy, data outlives GIS apps, dentralized constraints and security, and fully leverage RDBMS best practices.
A presentation making the case that by applying the basic principles of design, anyone from any background can create high-quality, attractive maps.
A presentation on the GIS at the County of San Mateo, which is the tool that uses geography to bring together departments, streamline information flow throughout the organization, and save effort across the enterprise.