Jonathan and Joe have been traveling like it's the holidays lately. What's been keeping them busy is a combination of field work in Macon County, IL for a SignOps implementation and various parcel fabric projects. But here at Cloudpoint we love to get out and meet different GIS users and talk about solutions for problems and projects that they are undertaking. Over the past 8 days, Cloudpoint has traveled over 450 miles and been to two different American Public Works Associat

Cloudpoint is excited to announce that we have partnered with DTS and Farnsworth Group for a pavement rating project for the City of Peoria! This project is quite extensive and entails driving every mile of City maintained roadways in a van equipped with laser scanning that collects and inventories every minute detail of the road. Once all the data is collected, the City will have a highly detailed record and rating for all of their roads. This data will be used for planning

With the number of field work projects increasing, and being well past the 200,000 mile mark on the current Honda Odyssey work van (Also known as Homer - get it? Because Homer wrote the Odyssey) we realized that we were going to be in the market for a new work vehicle. Well the stars aligned and the clouds parted, revealing a gorgeous "Cloudpoint blue" Dodge Caravan that was meant to be ours! Since expanding our fleet we are able to get field work done faster with two crews,

Cloudpoint Geographics is excited to announce another UAV drone mapping project that is in the works. We will be collecting data at Cog Hill Golf Course in Lemont, IL. Some of you golfers out there are familiar with Cog Hill, but for you other folks, Cog Hill is comprised of 4 separate courses and has hosted numerous Professional Golf Association events including 16 Western Opens and 4 BMW Championships. We will be collecting ground control points and high resolution imagery

Ashland County, WI has a beautiful setting along the southern shore of Lake Superior and is host to numerous northwoods activities.  The County recently decided to upgrade its cadastral GIS layers to take advantage of Esri's newest tools including the parcel fabric.  To accomplish this they choose Cloudpoint Geographics to provide professional services involving migrating their data into the parcel fabric within the ArcGIS environment.  In addition, Cloudpoint will help the C

Tim has been with the City of Rochelle Street Department for 14 years. He started out as an operator in 2003 and in 2013 he became the Streets and Cemetery Superintendent. As Superintendent, Tim’s responsibilities include: maintenance and repair of all city streets, alleys, sidewalks, and parking lots; inspection, repair, and replacement of the city storm water system; maintaining all traffic control devices to MUTCD standards; managing the city forestry program; snow and ice

Macon County, IL is home to several gems, Millikin Univeristy, the original home of the Chicago Bears (Decatur Staleys), and of course, the Macon County Highway Department. Recently Macon County started inquiring about different solutions to manage their existing sign inventory.  After meeting with Jon Hodel and Joe Christian a few times and getting an in depth demo of SignOps, Cloudpoint's in-house developed, web-based, sign inventory solution, County Engineer Bruce Bird kne

Cloudpoint is excited to announce that we have partnered with Scott County, Iowa to install ArcGIS Server on the Amazon Cloud. This will allow the County to have greater control over their mapping and make their maps available to more people on the web.  The Amazon EC2 cloud is a flexible deployment solution that is versatile and scalable. Scott county staff will have complete control over what, when and how their public facing GIS is updated. this allows more efficient use o

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 B

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 ha

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

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 r

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.  Cloudpoint's own Micah Williamson was on the winning team while Joe, Paul, and Matt were all runners up falling 1 point shy of tying Micah. In addition t

One thing setting SignOps apart from the rest of the crowd is the user-derived environment.  The development team has former highway maintenance experience and the users are solicited for their feedback frequently. Well, you spoke and we listened! Cloudpoint is happy to announce that we have launched our updated SignOps release! After compiling ideas for a few months, Cloudpoint was able to get some of your suggestions put in place.   So what updates are included: The program

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). To celebrate the special occasion, team members were treated to a lunch at the Chanticleer restaurant in Eureka, IL and a round of disc golf at Washington Park.   Cloudpoint con

Cloudpoint staff is currently undertaking a very large sign inventory for the City of Bloomington, IL.  The city has over 20,000 signs and over 300 miles of roadway, which is the biggest SignOps project that we've undertaken so far.  With so many signs to inventory and such a large area to cover, we started to brainstorm ideas that could lead to higher productivity.  The solution that we came up with: Bicycles.  The bicycles are proving to work great!  Staff can park in a cen

Santa Fe, New Mexico  The New Mexico state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) has been using ArcGIS for several years. The problem lies within it's departmental silos. They have utilized ArcGIS Server for a few years, but not to the enterprise level. Last Month, EMNRD contracted with Cloudpoint* to install ArcGIS Server with Portal. This included a SQL Server datastore, Federated servers and integration with Active Directory. Because we are a nimble fir

We at Cloudpoint Geographics are pleased to announce that Esri inc. has awarded us with an exclusive designation of being Local Government specialists. The specialty is designed to assist Esri users looking for  partners who can help them deploy ArcGIS for Local Government in their organization. While this description is no surprise to our existing clients, it serves as a validation of our work ethic and excellence. We strive to make our clients great and help them get recogn

It's never been easier to maintain an accurate and up-to-date inventory of your culverts using GIS and mobile technology.  Another example of the effectiveness of using mobile apps for inventories is shown during our ongoing project in LaSalle County, IL where Cloudpoint is completing a culvert inventory on all of the county highways.   Here, Joe is using Esri's Collector app to complete a culvert inventory for LaSalle County, IL. While climbing into and out of the work van,

The Town of Normal, IL is taking great strides in its GIS progress under the leadership of two highly talented professionals.  IT Director, Teri Legner and GIS Coordinator, Cassidy Killian are currently working with the water department to update all of their old maps.  The water distribution system is currently all mapped out in CAD however it is not exactly to scale, causing a huge challenge when trying to convert to GIS format.  Normally a simple georeferencing process can