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Case Studies
Nothing shows Farallon's capabilities or commitment to customer satisfaction better than real-life case studies of our projects.
City of Fairfield Property Review and Notification Application
Challenge
The City of Fairfield wanted to upgrade its slow, legacy property review and notification application.
Solution
Using Farallon’s flexible and cost effective framework, Farallon developed an extensible web-based property review and notification application utilizing the City’s existing ArcGIS Server technology along with Google Maps basemap data.
GIS Web Application to Identify and Manage Critical Geological Hazard Data
Challenge
Geological Hazard Abatement Districts (GHADs) are charged with managing geological hazards within their district. They needed an efficient, easy-to-use tool for managing hazard report / monitoring information and a way to quickly visualize this data.
Solution
Farallon developed a high performance web application using Farallon's flexible and cost effective framework. The application allows the GHADs to more effectively protect homeowners from geologic hazards occurring within their community by providing an intuitive and powerful decision support system with low cost, high speed, and easy scalability.
Town of Danville Property Review Application
Challenge
The Town of Danville's 10-yr old GIS used a proprietary design and data structure. Existing property review and property notification applications built on this GIS were not scalable and could not be integrated with modern mapping services or other Town data systems such as permitting and document management.
Solution
Farallon built a new web-based property review application to query and display property ownership, taxation, and jurisdiction information on a map to allow staff the ability to quickly and easily access property data.
Farallon builds Emergency Operations Center (EOC) incident management application for MTC
Challenge
In order to effectively manage unpredictable events in real time, MTC's Emergency Operations Center needed an incident management application with a clean, intuitive interface optimized to streamline the collection of incident data, as well as the display of incident locations relative to other critical data sets.
Solution
Farallon created a robust web-based incident management application that enables users to register and flag emergencies on a map, report routine incidents such as service delays, add emergency routing and response information and generate summary reports. EOC can now effectively manage and assess large volumes of continuously generated data in real time, and to distribute this data to all relevant personnel.
Enterprise GIS for Town of Woodside with StreetSaver PMS integration
Challenge
The Town of Woodside needed an enterprise GIS. They also wanted to integrate the GIS with MTC’s StreetSaver Online Pavement Management System and a CRW Permit Management System.
Solution
Farallon Geographics built and deployed an enterprise GIS for the Town of Woodside, CA, and linked the GIS to the Town’s MTC StreetSaver Pavement Management System (PMS) as well as to its CRW Permit Management System. Town staff could quickly map StreetSaver information into the GIS to perform spatial analysis or use a map as an interface for managing property assets and notifications.
Contra Costa Economic Development website integrates spatially-aware database and MS Virtual Earth
Challenge
To promote economic development, Contra Costa County Community Development Department wanted a website to help real estate professionals and business owners search for properties available for development or new business locations.
Solution
Farallon developed an easy-to-use "GIS Site Locator" website that lets users enter parameters such as price range and square footage, then view matching properties on a map in MS Virtual Earth. Click on a property to display additional information, including photographs, driving directions and current traffic conditions. An RSS feed automatically keeps users updated of relevant new properties.
MarineMap web application for identifying marine life protection areas
Challenge
The Marine Life Protection Act directs the State of California to design and manage a network of multi-use marine protected ecosystems.The state needed a web-based decision support system for designing marine protected areas and communicating proposed designs.
Solution
Farallon, working with the Marine Science Institute at UCSB, developed "MarineMap", a Web 2.0 online mapping application that enables members of scientific community and general public to participate in the selection of marine environments that should be designated for conservation, recreational, and commercial uses.
City of Santa Rosa: Utilities Geodatabase Deployment and Integration
Challenge
The City of Santa Rosa needed to automate the process of populating the asset inventory in its Asset Management System based on information in the utility maps generated with AutoCAD.
Solution
Farallon developed a GIS data model in an ESRI geodatabase that is populated from AutoCAD and uploads it to the City's Hansen Asset Management Software.
Kern County Master Address Database Needs Assessment
Challenge
Kern County had no single complete, accurate, and current address list that could be used as the authoritative list of business and residential locations for providing essential services. This limited the ability for Count departments to coordinate efforts and integrate information across business systems.
Solution
Farallon Geographics completed a Master Address Database needs assessment and budget plan for a single, centralized address source or MAD to solve the problem of duplicated and error-prone addresses.
City of Oakland, CA Enterprise GIS and Master Address Database Development
Challenge
The City of Oakland wanted to improve the efficiency, automation and integration of its location-based data, improve the usefulness and accuracy of its existing parcel data, and develop an enterprise geodatabase to expand city services.
Solution
Farallon built an enterprise-scale parcel database using spatially accurate orthophotographs and then implemented a master address database (MAD), providing the City with a comprehensive inventory of the City's addresses. The system also tied in other outside data sources including the Alameda Assessor's property database and Oakland permit tracking database.