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Contra Costa County Selects Farallon Geographics to Develop an Economic Development Website using Publicly Available Web Mapping Software

Nov 15, 2006

Farallon selected by Contra Costa County to create an easy-to-use website to help real estate professionals and business owners find commercial properties available for development or new business locations.
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PTAP selects Farallon Geographics as GIS / Pavement Management Vendor

Sep 28, 2006

Farallon has been selected as a P-TAP 8 consultant and vendor for their work on dynamic integration of GIS technology with MTC "StreetSaver" pavement management system and awarded a contract with the City of Napa.
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Farallon Geographics Builds GIS mashup to Identify and Manage Critical Data for Bay Area Geological Hazard Abatement Districts

Aug 30, 2006

San Francisco Bay Area Geological Hazard Abatement Districts (GHADs) manage risk related to property damage from potential landslides. Farallon was asked to analyze 15 years of quarterly data and provide a web-based solution to identify potential at-risk properties and help proactively manage landslide risks. The resulting GIS mashup provides an intuitive and powerful decision support system with low cost, high speed, and easy scalability.
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Why use a mashup when you already have a GIS - Episode 5

Aug 28, 2006

Everyone seems to be taking an interest in Mashups. Although the uses are diverse, the common thread is that they use location and maps as a theme, and they provide a simple visual interface for decision support. From a GIS perspective, when would it be desirable to use a mashup? We give an example of landslide hazard analysis in the Bay Area.
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What is a geospatially-aware database and why should you care? - GIS & Location Technology podcast - Episode 4

Jun 16, 2006

What does it mean for a database such as Oracle Spatial, to be spatially-aware, How does this enable enhanced data validity, finer control over user permissions, and easier access for web developers.
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Applying Oracle Spatial to a Very Large Insurance Problem

Jun 16, 2006

ISO Innovative Analytics needed to create a set of risk factors derived from unstructured data, to be applied to a myriad of geographies. The risk factors had to be customizable and valid wherever the company has customers. Farallon developed a solution using Oracle Spatial 10g that could handle massive amounts of data and allow the data to be accessed by GIS systems, query languages and APIs.
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Flexibility for San Mateo Powered by OGC Standards

Jun 15, 2006

Using a standards-based approach, Farallon was able to provide the City of San Mateo with access to GIS data via both Google Earth and a high end desktop client, such as GeoMedia or ArcGIS, from a single service. Farallon's approach involved deploying Open Geospatial Consortium services and tweaking them so that Google Earth could read them.
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Is there such a thing as 3D GIS? - GIS & Location Technology Podcast

May 10, 2006

What is the value of a 3D interface to GIS? Is location in 3D space relevant GIS information? Does 3D reduce the level of abstraction in traditional GIS ? Is 3D GIS an impending change to the GIS landscape?
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Farallon Geographics integrates City of San Mateo’s GIS with Google Earth

May 03, 2006

The City of San Mateo wanted to provide more intuitive access to its GIS data and make it accessible to the public using the Google Earth interface. Farallon built a web service interface using .NET to translate data from the City's GIS server to Google Earth, so that a user can view City GIS data including high quality aerial imagery and point, linear, & polygonal features - all in real-time.
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AppFusion and Farallon Geographics announce strategic partnership to introduce geospatial analysis in Management Dashboards

Mar 31, 2006

AppFusion and Farallon Geographics announced a strategic partnership that will deliver a new level of integration between Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems in the form of spatially enabled Management Dashboards.
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ESRI on-demand GIS web services - GIS & Location Technology Podcast

Mar 28, 2006

Mike Tait, Director of Internet Solutions at ESRI discusses on-demand GIS using web services, ArcWeb Explorer vs. Google Earth, and the future of GIS in mainstream business.
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GIS Industry trends for 2006 - GIS & Location Technology Podcast

Feb 10, 2006

Autodesk GIS Web mapping server goes open source; GIS vs Spatial Information Management; The impact of Google Earth on GIS.
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Enterprise GIS supports Bay Area Air Quality Management District

Dec 27, 2005

ESRI describes a solution developed by Farallon that uses an Enterprise GIS to help visualize and maintain air quality standards in the San Francisco Bay Area
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QPC uses geoprocessing to analyze auto insurance risk factors

Dec 13, 2005

Quality Planning Corporation (QPC) risk assessment firm worked with Farallon using geoprocessing to analyze location information for 15 million auto insurance policies and 2 million claims and map out traffic accidents severe enough to cause property damage.
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Web-based PMS/GIS-linked application for Sonoma County and MTC

Nov 06, 2005

MTC and Sonoma County use new web-based integrated Pavement Management System / GIS solution developed by Farallon. Integrated solution enables better allocation of resources and more effective maintainence of road networks
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