Large government entities are often tasked with making decisions that require understanding huge amounts of data. Their leadership needs to be versed on various aspects of an issue before they make a decision that will impact communities. Our geospatial and survey teams work together to gather and organize spatial data to make it simple for leaders to understand the information at hand, thereby empowering and informing their decisions. One recent instance of this type of project work took place when our Fairfax-based GIS team and mid-Atlantic surveying team supported Teton County, Wyoming.
Supporting Teton County
Our firm helped Teton County continue updating its asset portfolio of digital resources. The project includes assessing the current spatial data resource, collecting requirements, evaluating alternatives, designing a new solution, and deploying the new solution via cloud. Our team developed a comprehensive system through which Teton County can create, manage, secure, analyze, and visualize its spatial data. The new resource will lay a foundation for geospatial collection, layer creation, analytics, publishing, and visualization of environmental geospatial data across the U.S.
Although the project began as seemingly very GIS-focused, it was quickly realized that surveying services would be needed as well. Our team led by Erick Quintanilla was brought on when the client needed geodatabase land parcels updated using coordinate geometry (COGO) tools, which were not part of the original scope of the project.
Our geospatial and survey teams work together to gather and organize spatial data to make it simple for leaders to understand the information at hand, thereby empowering and informing their decisions."
Kevin Christy and Erick Quintanilla
Through our internal communication systems, Erick was quickly able to connect with Kevin Christy’s team. The mid-Atlantic surveyors developed the land parcels and accompanying legal descriptions for the client, allowing Teton County to avoid the time and effort it would take to coordinate another organization to complete the land parcels. Erick’s team was also able to help our client discover some inconsistencies with its previous legal descriptions and suggest corrections for the future.