Relevant Geography
By Tracy Winchell - Posted on December 26th, 2007
Ever wonder who your city director is? What ward you're in? When your
trash pick-ups are scheduled? Where you vote? If your street is
classified as a "feeder" or a major arterial? How your property is
zoned? Or if that piece of property you're thinking about renting is in
the floodplain?
Answers to these questions and much more are located right here.
http://gis.fsark.com/maps.html
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the city might benefit from utilizing the google maps api, which has some really neat vector illustration features for drawing lines along routes.
Hi, Brandan.
The Fort Smith GIS Department is experimenting with the Google API and has published two map services using this technology. They can be found at:
http://www.fortsmithwifi.com
http://gis.fsark.com/CBIDPortal/cbid_gm.jsp
We are hoping to do more with the API. However at this time we require vector geoprocessing (e.g. buffering, nearest-point, point-in-polygon, etc.) than the API possesses.
Please stay in touch.
Russell Gibson
IT/GIS Director
City of Fort Smith
rgibson@fortsmithar.gov
...so I'm really fuzzy on the technical side of how all this stuff works.
However, I do know that the Google maps are, in part, based on some assumptions.
The data you find within Fort Smith's GIS system is darned near exact, in terms of structure placements and is virtually real time when it comes to new streets.
The GIS guys have deployed some of their data inputs to Google maps, so you'll probably start to see some integration there, and they're continuing to put together "mash-ups" on specific data sets.
In fact, Google Earth is using our overhead images.
The technology is way, way over my head. I understand just enough to be fascinated by how quickly the sophistication advances -- and becomes more useful to me, the geek wannabe.
Check out my personal blog at www.tracyplaces.net.
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