The ROI on GIS

摘要

With the advent of mobile devices, websites, and cloud-sharing, municipalities can leverage Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to organize, share, map, and analyze assets across multiple departments, and even separate agencies. For example, this is what an enterprise GIS solution allows, simultaneously: 1. A field crew reviews a structure's maintenance history on their tablet computers. 2. Another field crew adds the locations of newly installed traffic signs into a mobile device. 3. The field crews' data automatically syncs to a geodatabase back in the office, where engineers pull the files directly into CAD. 4. Various department managers view municipal assets on their desktops via a GIS website that connects to the geodatabase, which shows data updates in real time.