Clients
Google Maps Case Studies
Colliers International Bank Site Data Management Application
Challenge
Colliers International, a leading global real estate services firm, needed to enhance the way it managed site data collection for Citibank locations. Usng Excel spreadsheets to track bank branch locations data resulted in incomplete or inconsistent data, and made it difficult to search and compare information about specific locations or transaction comparables.
Solution
Farallon developed a web-based database and mapping application that would let Colliers evaluate and enter a new bank location simply by clicking on a map and entering information associated with the bank. Staff can also manage existing Citibank properties, enter and update information for potential bank locations, and track the location of competing banks.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District - Geospatial Components Integration With Mobile Field App
Challenge
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is responsible for maintaining air quality standards within the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. BAAQMD needed to develop and integrate geospatial functionality into backend applications for permitting, engineering, and enforcement used for daily operations. They also wanted to build and integrate a mobile application into their system to support inspectors in the field.
Solution
Farallon developed and integrated geospatial functionality into the District's customer facing permitting application and internal SharePoint portal that contained all of the District's spatially related data. Farallon also developed an Android-based mobile application and integrated it into the District's production system to support coordination between inspectors in the field and managers in the District's office.
TKT STPR iPhone & Android App helps avoid parking tickets in San Francisco
Challenge
General Eyeballs was in process of developing an iPhone & Android application to help drivers avoid parking tickets in San Francisco as well as other major urban centers. No central database of citywide parking regulations and restrictions in San Francisco existed so one had to be created that could intelligently integrate sophisticated spatial and non-spatial data.
Solution
Farallon Geographics integrated a variety of data sources from the City of San Francisco including point datasets for parking meter locations and non-spatial (i.e. tabular) datasets such as time restrictions and street cleaning schedules using sophisticated geospatial processing techniques to correctly position all the data on the right street segment and on the correct side of the street.
Mobile Data Collection Application using Android
Challenge
A Bay Area city needed a comprehensive and accurate storm drain geodatabase and geometric network to support their stormwater infrastructure planning, operations, and maintenance. They wanted it efficient for field crew data collection of 12000+ storm drain features, and real-time trackable by office managers.
Solution
Farallon developed an Android-based workflow-driven mobile data collection application to streamline the process of data collection and synchronize with the City's central database in both network connected (3G or Wi-Fi) and disconnected environments. Managers in the office track real-time progress using a simple Google Earth interface.
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.
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.
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.