The Land Records department at Bayfield County, Wisconsin has a knowledgeable GIS staff and land records information system that they utilize on a regular basis for updating assessed valuations, addressing, and public land survey data.  Recognized at the 2017 Wisconsin Land Information Association's annual conference by winning the Government Achievement Award for their flood mapping work, the department is no stranger to success.  Led by Land Records Administrator, Scott Gal

Cloudpoint's Erin Strickler was able to attend the Esri User Conference, the world's largest GIS conference, in San Diego for the first time this year.  This is the fifth time that the Cloudpoint team has been represented at the conference where over 17,000 people gather to hear the latest GIS news and enjoy thousands of hours of one-on-one networking, collaboration, and fun with fellow attendees.  Erin shares some of her highlights of attending this year's conference in this

Cloudpoint Geographics is pleased to welcome Erin Strickler to our staff!  Erin is a 2003 graduate of Bradley University's civil engineering program and earned her professional engineer's license in April of 2017.  She comes with a strong background in engineering, surveying, and local governments and an emphasis in transportation.  At one point Erin worked part time for Cloudpoint's founder Jon Hodel, while serving at Woodford County where she was active in creating and mana

We're excited to announce that Princeville Township has contracted Cloudpoint to create a GIS cemetery mapping solution to increase their Cemetery mapping abilities! The township cemetery is located on the Northwest side of the Village of Princeville, IL and has over 5,000 grave sites. As with all organizations, they were looking for a better way to keep an inventory of what is where and adding information such as new graves, grave site availability, any maintenance records,

Completing a Township-wide Sign Inventory for the Monticello Township Highway Department! This week Joe and Tyler ventured to Monticello, IL for a township-wide SignOps implementation and data collection. They were able to inventory all of the Monticello Township Highway Department (MTHD) signs both in the field and in their shop in just 2 days! This allows for a turnkey sign inventory solution for the MTHD. No longer are they required to mark up paper maps,only to then send

Last week Jon and Joe headed north to Elkhart Lake, WI for the annual Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA)  Conference. It was a great event and we were able to connect with current clients and new county officials. We had a wonderful time talking about a variety of projects ranging from migrating to the parcel fabric to completing county-wide inventories. Congratulations to everyone who won a Cloudpoint Titleist or camouflage hat by showing off your putting skills a

Ray has been with Scott County longer than he can remember, but not long enough to retire. Before that he worked at Shive-Hattery and Bi-State Regional Planning Commission just across the river. Sunny has been with the County for just over 3 years. Prior to that, she completed her masters degree in Geography at the University of Iowa.  Ray manages all aspects of the county GIS, and Sunny provides backup while also focusing on department support and web programming. The County

One great thing about working at Cloudpoint is the wide variety of clients we have and the array of projects and services that we provide. Although we're pretty well known in Illinois and Wisconsin, some of our other Midwest brethren are less familiar with the company. This past Wednesday, Cloudpoint's Joe Christian started to change all that by hitting the rural roads of Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa to spread the good word about GIS and Cloudpoint. With stops in Knoxvil

The City of Bloomington, IL has contracted Cloudpoint Geographics to assist in updating their sewer network data. This project includes migrating their sewer network data into Esri's Local Government Information Model, creating features for missing assets, assigning new feature ID’s, and improving workflows for 3rd party software integration within their GIS environment. Once the database has been quality checked, Bloomington will have a much better view of their features in

This has been quite the eventful year at Cloudpoint Geographics. We've been fortunate enough to have completed several projects ranging from a SignOps sign inventory for Macon County, IL, to flying a proposed drag racing strip south of Eau Claire, WI. We also said farewell to our friend and colleague Paul Stephenson as he headed west to Nevada. All in all, it was a great year full of great successes. We've put together the gallery of pictures below as a recap of the great eve

Tyler (Ty) Severson has been an important member of the Cloudpoint team for a little over 2 years. He works on a wide variety of projects including culvert inventories, sign inventories, parcel mapping, and more. Well now you can add being a UAV pilot to the list. Yesterday Ty passed his Federal Aviation Association UAV pilot exam, which will allow him to complete flights for upcoming projects. Ty has been studying hard for the exam as he continues his education at Illinois C

As the Summer projects start to slow down, Cloudpoint's conference season is heating up. In the past month our team has been to the Illinois GIS Association (ILGISA) conference in Normal, IL; the Illinois Association of County Engineers (IACE) conference in Moline, IL; the Traffic and Engineering Safety (TES) conference in Champaign, IL; and the Esri Wisconsin User Group (EWUG) conference at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI. Next week Jonathan and Joe will be attending the Illi

Cloudpoint Aerial Services is excited to introduce new imagery capabilities! We've recently added a drone to our growing fleet, but what makes this drone special is the camera that it carries. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a way to collect data regarding plant health and live vegetation by calculating the amount of visible and near-infrared light that is reflected off of a each plant. By doing this, we can now show which plants are healthier than others

Do you know the quality of your address data in your GIS?  Did you also know that the accuracy of this data is of critical importance for the future of NG9-1-1?  As an Esri business partner, Cloudpoint Geographics understands the value of ArcGIS Solutions for Local Government, including address data management, and has been implementing these solutions for several years.  Our professional staff has the ability to review the quality of your road centerline address ranges, as w

Cloudpoint Geographics excited to announce its official approval and receipt of pilot's badge from Droners.io , an online collection of drone service providers where customers and drone pilots can connect on projects.   "As a professional service provider its not only important to know what we do well, but also to know what we don't do.   Droners.io provides us the opportunity to specify which drone services categories that we offer creating the best possible client-vendor m

Recently Cloudpoint completed a drone flight of Roanoke, IL. The mighty burg of Roanoke is home to Cloudpoint HQ and often times is our guinea pig for implementing or testing new services. We set out to fly all of the town and capture detailed, crisp, clear imagery with our drone mapping capabilities. Although some of you instantly understand what a benefit this can be for a municipality, we thought it may be helpful to talk about the advantages to having Cloudpoint complete

Recently Joe traveled over 3,500 miles from Central Illinois to San Diego and back to attend the Esri User Conference. This was Joe's first UC and it was a great, albeit sometimes overwhelming, time! Joe was able to learn about the latest GIS services available from Esri, as well as connect with colleagues from around the globe. It was truly a worldwide conference, and he was able to connect with people from the US, England, Canada, Sweden, Chile, Russian, and many more count

Over the past 3 months, Cloudpoint staff has been hard at work covering the hundreds of miles of paved roads that make up the Macon County Highway SignOps inventory. The primary team of Joe, Paul, Tyler, and Ken (our new intern!), inventoried and barcoded 7,218 signs, which involved logging assembly location, assembly type, sign type (with MUTCD code), sheeting type, manufacture date, install date, sign text, and noting any damage to the sign.  At the beginning of this projec

Congratulations to Paul Stephenson and Matt Junker of Cloudpoint Geographics for receiving their ArcGIS Desktop Associate  10.5 certification.  This certificate is obtained by completing one of Esri's technical examinations which tests candidates experience applying ArcGIS concepts and processes to workflows.  Candidates must have two or more years of experience to be eligible for the award.  Paul and Matt have both displayed their proficient abilities in utilizing GIS softw

Earlier this week, Joe made a trip to the Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI for the Wisconsin County Highway Association Summer Road School. The association hosts two road schools a year, one in the Summer and one in the Winter. These events allow County Highway Commissioners and County Highway Board Supervisors to get together to learn what issues are facing the state of Wisconsin, as well as learn about new solutions to existing issues. Joe was able to meet with sev