1. Oakville’s GIS Site Selection Tool
Find Oakville
Oakville’s GIS Site Selection Tool

2. Project Background – The Business Need
Economic Development works with new and existing businesses
Most common requests?
Inventory of properties
Demographic and business data
Town-specific data
Result? Find Oakville!

3. Project Team Cross-departmental team: Used an ‘agile’ methodology
Business lead (Economic Development)
Geocortex configuration and cartography (Strategic Business Support)
System Design and Development (Information Systems)
Used an ‘agile’ methodology
No formal hierarchy
Worked as a team – sharing ideas together

4. Find Oakville

5. Partnerships and Data Sources
Project would not be successful without our partners:
Oakville Milton and District Real Estate Board (real estate data)
Halton Region (Employment Survey Data)

6. Phased Approach Phase 1 Phase 2 Goals Goals To get the site live!
Integrate automated real estate data feed
Integrate town-owned data layers
Downloadable property reports
Use as a ‘beta’ site
Phase 2
Goals
Improve on the design and user experience
Integrate Halton Region Business data
Integrate Environics demographic data
Improve reporting ability

7. Site Architecture

8. Challenges and Lessons Learned
We still don’t have all of the data we need/want!
Changing data models
Creating legal agreements
QA/QC

9. Demonstration

10. Thank you!
Rebekah Stormes Senior Economic Development Officer ext. 4201
Miriana Strajin Application Development Coordinator ext. 3098