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GIS Partnership Summary
Suffolk County Orthoimagery
Partnership is Open to New Partners
Partnership Purpose and Goal:
Purpose was to find money to pay for the additional costs of the higher
resolution upgrade for the 2007 NYS Digital Orthoimagery for all of
Suffolk County. The goal was to secure a total of $454,000 from multiple
government agencies within Suffolk County that requested the need for
higher resolution imagery. Suffolk County was not prepared to foot
this bill alone and a partnership solution was sought.
Participants and Resource Contributions:
All of the following agencies contributed funding to this project:
- Suffolk County
- Town of Brookhaven
- Town of East Hampton - NYS GIS Data Sharing Cooperative member
- Town of Huntington
- Town of Smithtown
- Town of Southold
- Town of Southampton - NYS GIS Data Sharing Cooperative member
- Town of Islip - NYS GIS Data Sharing Cooperative member
- The Long Island Rail Road
- The Suffolk County Water Authority
Date Partnership Began: June, 2006
Contracts are
scheduled to be finalized in fall 2007, however letters of commitment
have been secured from all agencies participating in this partnership.
Deliverables:
Deliverable will be six-inch pixel Natural Color and CIR 1 foot Natural
Color Digital Ortho images for all of Suffolk County. To be delivered
to the Suffolk County GIS Coordinator for distribution to all agencies.
Brief Summary of Partnership:
The partnership was successful due to the Suffolk County GIS Technical
Committee that meets monthly in Hauppauge. This committee is run and
facilitated by the Suffolk County GIS Coordinator and is open to all
government agencies working or involved in Suffolk County that have
interests in GIS. One of our main goals is to work together to obtain
regional data at no or low cost. Each agency GIS representative was
given the task to find their share of the cost from within their agency.
After each representative was able to secure a letter of commitment
from their agency, the real work began with coordinating budgets. The
monthly meetings were the key to the communication needed amongst so
many agencies to coordinate budgeting. The biggest challenge with this
partnership was accommodating 10 different agency budget cycles (and
their unique budgetary policies). Coming up with this funding every
three years still looks to be a large challenge and we are presently
discussing ideas on how we can look to local legislation to form a
"County Consortium" to address the nightmare of pulling
together large sums of money from multiple government agencies on a
three year cycle for this much needed dataset. Many thanks is owed
to Tim Ruhren, Digital Orthoimagery Program Manager from NYS CSCIC
who worked closely with us to successfully meet this challenge.
An additional side benefit of the success of this partnership was realized by our neighboring counties. Because of our large size, Suffolk County’s commitment to upgrade our resolution brought down the costs to the other three counties in Zone 7 to upgrade their resolution as well. Suffolk County is the largest county in the zone as we represent more than half (52%) of Zone 7 fly area.
Additional Information Available On-line: None
Contact Information:
Name: Jim Daly
Title: Suffolk County GIS Coordinator
Organization: Suffolk County Dept of Information Technology/ GIS Division
Address:725 Veterans Memorial Hwy., P.O. Box 6100 Hauppauge, NY11788
Phone(631) 853-6045
Fax (631) 853-5076
E-mail: James.Daly@SuffolkCountyNY.gov
Contact Information:
Name: Eric Lawler
Title: GIS Technician II
Organization: Suffolk County Dept of Information Technology/ GIS Division
Address: 725 Veterans Memorial Hwy., P.O. Box 6100 Hauppauge, NY11788
Phone: (631) 853-5094
E-mail:Eric.Lawler@SuffolkCountyNY.gov