Grey County GIS Overview Grey County Public Works Association – April 4, 2012
Talk Overview Poll – Who has used County GIS website? What is GIS Road type example Union Gas example Air Photo example Culvert Example – grey road 15 (bayshore) Web Site overview
GIS is a System of computer software, hardware and data, and personnel to help manipulate, analyze and present information that is tied to a spatial location spatial location – usually a geographic location information – visualization of analysis of data system – linking software, hardware, data Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Spatial Location: Where is it? Species: Maple Height: 8m Age: 26yrs Species: Maple Height: 8m Age: 26yrs Attribute Information: What is it? 51 N 112 W
Database
Visualization “Worth a thousand words”
GIS Resources GIS web Site – ELA (Enterprise License Agreement) recently signed with ESRI – You all have access to software
Surface Types Red Surface Treatment Blue Hot Mix Grey Gravel
Desktop Software Union Gas information Sign information
Air Photo Example Changes between 2006, 2010 airphotos
Web Site Demo Draw & Measure – paving job Identify – road attributes Search – Mailbox
Discussion Utilities Fibre Gas R-plan Autocad vs ESRI (GIS) What is important to Roads/Public Works
Geoff Hogan, IT Director County of Grey (519) Grey County Public Works Association – April 4, 2012