LEJIS Helps Pennsylvania Agencies Share Police Incidents, Thwart Crime

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Our solution, the Law Enforcement Justice Information System (LEJIS), is an innovative police data sharing system transforming how Keystone State law enforcement agencies access and share police incident records. For the first time in Pennsylvania, participating law enforcement agencies have near-real-time access to information about each other’s police incident reports. With information more readily available, police officers and sheriffs are better equipped to improve their own safety, while detectives and district attorneys conduct more efficient investigations.

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Spatial NSDI Saves Money In UAE

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Spatial NSDI Saves Money In UAE

Nationwide geospatial datasets and associated data sharing framework did not exist in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) prior to 2010. This resulted in significant redundancy in data collection and integration efforts among federal and local government agencies, time and money wasted, and conflicting and erroneous analysis results from poor-quality spatial data. A primary concern at the time was the inability of the UAE National Emergency, Crisis, and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA) to respond to a major disaster without an available enterprise  GIS. NCEMA is the federal UAE government agency responsible for national emergency planning, preparedness, and response.

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Making Business Connections at Esri UC

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Making Business Connections at Esri UC

At the San Diego Convention Center (in one of America’s finest cities), the Esri UC provides us the privilege of discussing business and technology with our partners - paramount to our future success. During the 2015 mega-event, our Commercial Solutions Vice President Brian Smith sat down with Esri’s Karen Richardson to talk integrated solutions, ArcGIS Online Platform benefits, agility, overcoming business challenges, and, of course, that value of relationships.

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Developing a new Project using MapLaunch

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Here at GeoDecisions, there are collocated and distributed teams working on developing web mapping solutions. A lot of these solutions have maps and widgets that share overlapping functionality and a common workflow. We asked ourselves: “Wouldn’t it be cool to develop these components once and reuse them across multiple projects, instead of developing the same functionality over and over again?”

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The Future of JavaScript in GIS is bright

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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the JS.Geo conference. A one-day conference that "brings together anyone interested in visualization, analysis, or cartography for a day of talks and demos of mappy sorts of things built with JavaScript (mostly).”  I saw demos and talks about a lot of cool innovations and projects involving maps and JavaScript. I'm going to expand a bit more about the two biggest trends I saw below.

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