Clients
ESRI Case Studies
Enterprise Address Repository and Maintenance Solution for Walnut Creek Citywide Building Address Database
Challenge
The City of Walnut Creek maintained critical address data on a departmental basis in a variety of incompatible formats. They wanted to reduce errors and inconsistencies by deploying a single, authoritative, centralized database of building addresses.
Solution
The City engaged Farallon to design and deploy an integrated Enterprise Master Address Database /Repository, Address Management System and Address Maintenance System that would link every building address within the City to assessor parcels, street centerlines, and potentially to individual buildings.
Cal EMA Enterprise GIS and CAL-SABER Web Application
Challenge
The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) needed an Enterprise GIS integrated with it core IT and business workflows that would offer it in-house capability to quickly disseminate critical geospatial datasets and applications in support of its mission of statewide emergency mitigation, response, and recovery.
Solution
Farallon developed an Enterprise GIS and data model for the thousands of GIS layers that the Cal EMA warehouses, along with a web-based GIS viewer to visualize the location and extent of incident data such as wild fires, accidents or swine flu outbreaks. Farallon also developed a prototype Android-based mobile application for collection of real-time field data during an emergency training exercise.
Union Sanitary District Plant GIS
Challenge
Union Sanitary District wanted to develop a Plant GIS Rich Internet application for viewing wastewater treatment plant infrastructure and managing mission critical workflows. It needed to tightly integrate with 15 business systems including SharePoint, Hansen Asset Management System, Wastewater Asset Management database and ArcGIS Server.
Solution
Farallon designed designed, developed and deployed a web-based Plant GIS asset tracking application that monitors wastewater treatment plant infrastructure and manages mission critical workflows.
Kern County Community Services Finder
Challenge
The County of Kern needed a web mapping application to improve access to parcel and address-based information for its staff and citizens.
Solution
Farallon developed a property-based community services locator for the County to support its citizens’ ability to identify essential services. The web app has an intuitive, high-performance user interface providing smart address-based and map-based property searches.
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.
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.
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.