Cloudpoint Geographics is excited to announce that we have been contracted by the City of Barrie, Ontario, Canada to assist with their Parcel Fabric! This project has been in the works for a few months and we a pleased to see all the pieces come together. In the coming year, Jon will be making a couple of trips to the great white north to assist in implementation and training of key staff to utilize Esri's Parcel Fabric. The Cloudpoint team is thrilled to add the City of Barrie to our client list and we are eager to get to Canada to start this partnership!
Local Governments Learn About What's New in GIS!
Jonathan Hodel discussing UAV mapping and how it can enhance an organization's existing GIS.
This past Friday dozens of city and county officials converged on the Morton Fire Department building in Morton, IL for Cloudpoint Geographics' ArcGIS for Local Government Solutions Showcase. It was a successful event that included several presentations ranging on topics including drone mapping, parcel management, webmap creation, and much more. You can learn more about the topics discussed as well as access the presentations by accessing the Showcases page HERE.
We are happy to announce that we have three showcases scheduled for 2017! We will be hosting events in Janesville, Wi, Morton, IL, and the North suburbs of Chicago, IL. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or visit our website to make sure you get the latest information about our upcoming showcases!
A Better Way to Manage GIS Services
The City of Washington, Illinois has experienced a population growth and a spur in construction over the past few decades. After meeting with Cloudpoint Geographics early this year, they decided that they needed to get the most out of their GIS in order to be ready for future growth. Washington decided that the best way for them to prepare for the future was to properly document all of their spatial data. Whether it was parcel data, utilities, zoning, or any other section of data that the town manages, they knew that in order to build for tomorrow, they had to create a foundation to start from.
By bringing Cloudpoint on to work with and expand their existing GIS system via a Managed Services Contract, the City of Washington is able to continuously improve the ways that they use and view their data. Currently, Paul Stephenson has been creating a network model to show what the city's current sewer system can handle and what parts of the system would be affected if an increase in flow was to arise via emergency or future land development.
Here you can see a network modeling tool used by the City of Washington to test increased flow added into their existing sanitary network.
In addition to the aforementioned network modeling work, Paul has also be busy working on a variety of other projects including pavement ratings, various small planning and development mapping requests, and overhauling the city's access and sharing practices of various GIS data. All of this work is improving the City's GIS and it's use moving forward.
We are excited to partner with the City of Washington to deliver the best in GIS implementation, in order for them to better serve the citizens in their jurisdiction. If you have any questions about Cloudpoint Geographics' Managed Services Contracts, please contact us at 877-377-8124, or visit
SignOps December Deal!
SignOps Year End Discount!
Cloudpoint Geographics is excited to offer a year end discount on SignOps, our sign inventory management application! This offer is only valid for SignOps subscriptions that are purchased during the month of December in 2016. All SignOps subscriptions purchased in December will either receive a 10% or 20% discount on their yearly subscription fee.
Sign up for 1 year of SignOps, and receive 10% off your yearly subscription fee.
Sign up for 2 or more years of SignOps, and receive 20% off your yearly subscription fee.
Call us at 877-377-8124 or visit www.cloudpointgeo.com/signops to learn more!
Spreading the Word about GIS
One thing we love about working at Cloudpoint Geographics is the ability to spread the good word of GIS and how powerful of a tool it can be for an organization. Over the past few weeks several Cloudpoint staff members have had a variety of speaking engagements ranging in topics from mobile mapping implementation, to overhauling utility mapping, to a general overview of what GIS is, and why updating maps is important. This was true for both Jonathan and Joe as they hit the road to talk GIS and all things geospatial.
Another Successful ILGISA conference!
Every Fall the Illinois GIS Association hosts its annual conference. This year the event was at the Hilton Lisle/Naperville Hotel and Conference center from October 17-19. It was a fantastic event which started with the Monday night social which was sponsored by Cloudpoint Geographics and featured a rousing game of Trivia.
Hodel & Knapp pass the Unmanned Aircraft General (UAG) Exam
SignOps Gets an Upgrade!
Reason to Celebrate: 5 years and growing!
Roanoke, IL- Cloudpoint Geographics recently celebrated its 5-year anniversary on August 25, 2016. We've come a long way from back in the day with a one room office borrowed from the local realtor and an old Lenovo laptop (which we still have in our possession now bearing the label Cloudpoint-LAP 1).
Customer Spotlight - Janna Baker, GIS Coordinator, Tazewell County, IL
Janna Baker, Tazewell County GIS Coordinator, is a great proponent of applying GIS at the county government level.
Janna Baker is the GIS Coordinator for Tazewell County, Illinois. Here is a little bit of information about Janna, how she got to where she is today, and what GIS has done for her.
Janna has been with Tazewell County for over 2 years. She was an intern with the County from April to November of 2014, and then took over as the GIS Coordinator.
As part of her duties, Janna is responsible for administering GIS databases through SQL Server software and ESRI software, managing GIS websites/services hosted on-site, creating new GIS websites/services, handling map/data sales, distributing map services and policy development, troubleshooting hardware/software issues, and identifying data needs, quality, accuracy, and standards,
When asked how her and her staff currently use GIS on a daily basis, Janna says, “GIS is used to increase efficiency in managing spatial data and serving it to the public. An example being parcel data in the Assessor's Office. GIS allows for quick access to parcel information by both staff and the public. Web access to the parcel data reduces the number of public calls to the Assessor's Office, freeing staff for other work. GIS provides staff with the ability to visually identify errors with ease and to correct them quickly. Through the enterprise database platform, these corrections can be immediately served out to GIS users in other departments, like Zoning, who rely on the parcel data to aid in their decision making, and to the public through GIS Web Maps.
Janna knows that GIS will play a large role for Tazewell County moving forward. She emphasized that by saying, “GIS is a very effective method of relaying information both between government entities and to the public. The ability to display tabular data as a model of the real world, and to visually display analysis of that data, is a benefit to government decision making in all areas. GIS will continue to integrate into more departments as it provides a fast, centralized way to manage and share spatial data, both internally throughout the organization and externally to the public."
Cloudpoint would like to thank Janna for her commitment to GIS technology and use of the Esri platform in helping her organization to succeed with providing detailed geographic data to the citizens of Tazewell County. Because of Janna’s insight, the County is tracking their information and infrastructure like never before, allowing them to build upon her work for years to come.
