New York State Office of Cyber Security
Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse
GIS Partnership Summary
GIS Web Hosting Service Service for County and Local Government
Partnership Purpose and Goal:
This was a Pilot project to determine the usefulness of having a GIS Web
Hosting Service accessible for county and local government. The
pilot included the development of an online GIS application by a private
vendor as well as web hosting services for 4 local governments for a
one year period. The focus for the application is to support everyday
business uses for people accessing/utilizing parcel (land records) data.
Participants and Resource Contributions: (* = NYS Cooperative Member)
*NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination: funding, data for the application, staff
*Delaware County: staff, data for the application
*Tioga County: staff, data for the application
*Town of Brunswick: staff, data for the application
fountains spatial (Applied GIS): hardware, software, technical staff, hosting, end user training
Date Partnership Began: June, 2005
Completed: June, 2006
Deliverables:
Parcel (land records) application delivered to each of the government participants
and published on publicly accessible websites, other than Tioga County,
whose application remained for in-house use only.
Brief Summary of Partnership:
The NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure (CSCIC) invited
proposals for a Local Government GIS Web hosting pilot project. The
pilot included the development of a powerful and easy-to-use, web-based
GIS application as well as web hosting services for four local governments
for a one year period. This application included a set of high
priority functionality selected to provide tangible and direct benefits
to users in support of many of their common business requirements. The
goal of the pilot was to demonstrate the usefulness of these types of
sites so that development costs could be offered to municipalities on
the New York State Procurement Contract for a discounted price to state
and local government organizations. The focus for the application
was to support everyday business uses for people accessing/utilizing
parcel (land records) data.
Each of the web-based GIS applications included an extensive set of spatial data layers provided by CSCIC and other NYS agencies and up to 10 data layers provided by the local government. In particular, tax parcel boundaries, provided by the local governments, were a pivotal data layer on which much of the applications key functionality was based.
Overall, the partnership was a great success, as measured by monitoring of the number of “hits” to each public access site and through the feedback provided through an anonymous online feedback form. Between the four local government websites, more than 2.9 million hits were registered during the 1 year period. At the conclusion of this pilot project, CSCIC has gained valuable experience and feedback that will be evaluated when establishing potential future directions for this important initiative.
In addition, the online application has been a great success for the participating local governments. Delaware County, in particular, has secured funding for the continued support of the application beyond the CSCIC contract period and plans to grow the application to accommodate user needs.
Additional Information Available On-line:
www.giswebhost.org/clinton
www.gismaphost.com/delaware
www.giswebhost.org/brunswick
Primary Contact Information:
Jennifer Harvill - GIS Coordinator
Delaware County Planning Department
P.O. Box 367, Delhi, NY 13753
Phone: 607-746-2944
Fax: 607-746-8479
E-mail: jennifer.harvill@co.delaware.ny.us
Secondary Contact Information:
Austin Fisher - President
fountains spatial (formerly Applied GIS)
137 Jay Street, Schenectady, New York 12305
Phone: 518-346-0942
Fax: 518-346-5322
E-mail: Austin.fisher@fountainsamerica.comJohn Borst - Project Manager
NYS CSCIC
30 South Pearl Street, 11th Floor, Albany, NY 12207-3425
Phone: 518-474-5212
Fax: 518-473-5848
E-mail: jborst@dhses.ny.govMathew S. Andrews, GISP - GIS Manager
Tioga County Information Technology and Communication Services
56 Main St., Owego, NY 13827
Phone: 607-687-8293
Fax: 607-223-7015
E-mail: andrewsm@co.tioga.ny.usPat Poleto
Town Councilman
Town of Brunswick
336 Town Office Rd., Troy, NY 12180
Phone: 518-279-3461
Fax: 518-279-4352