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| NOVEMBER 24, 2003 |
NGI DEVELOPS LAND DIVISION TRACKING APPLICATION
 AUGUSTA, ME. Northern Geomantics completed development of a custom parcel transaction management application designed to track and evaluate lands sales through time. The Land Division Tracker (LDT), a GIS-based application developed specifically for the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC), allows planners to turn title search results into geographic parcel transaction layers that include historical parcel boundaries and attribute information such as lot numbers, deed dates, and grantor-grantee information. Historical parcel information is important to LURC's mission. When a landowner makes a request to subdivide a parcel, LURC's decision is contingent, in part, on its transaction history which, until now, has been difficult to create and maintain.
The Land Division Tracker intelligently links parent and child parcels to create a "genealogy" of related parcels. In addition, it intelligently populates ownership and deed date information of a newly created parent parcel based on the attributes of its children.
LURC guides land development and zoning for approximately 40,000 parcels covering over 10 million acres in Maine. An increasing rate of development over the last decade has strained the agency's ability to monitor land transfers and subdivision creation, thus prompting the need for a customized parcel management tool. The Land Division Tracking tool will help LURC staff identify unapproved land divisions, analyze development trends, and plan for future growth. "The LDT tool has received much positive feedback from our regional staff. It has proven itself very useful in our permitting process," reported Aga Pinette, LURC Senior Planner.
The LDT Tool, developed with ArcObjects from ESRI, employs an Oracle database and ArcSDE from ESRI for parcel storage. LURC staff access the data layers through network connections on the state's wide area network. The LDT Tool is built upon the successes of several previous GIS projects developed by NGI for LURC. These include a GIS user needs analysis, parcel database design and clean-up project, distributed parcel viewing tools, and a parcel editing tool.
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| OCTOBER 20, 2003 |
NGI DEVELOPS ON-LINE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
 NEWTON, MA. - Planning for and responding to emergency situations requires an efficient means to communicate information among numerous decision makers. This information needs to be clear and easy to comprehend. Many existing emergency management systems effectively disseminate tabular information, but what about the critical spatial aspect of the data? When an organization needs to know where personnel, equipment, and vital infrastructure are located, the most effective means is through maps.
Northern Geomantics recently completed an Internet-based mapping component for an online Homeland Security system used by organizations within the US government. The system now provides these organizations with the ability to attach spatial information to any tabular records related to a natural or manmade emergency event. The software allows users to create, modify and delete geographic features representing locations of incident activities, emergency response personnel, and various assets using an interactive map. Users have complete control of the feature symbology and labeling. The spatial data is stored in a central RDBMS and is available for viewing online by authorized users in real-time.
This interactive mapping software is fully integrated with the organization's existing emergency management system and contains a documented Java API for continued development. Since its rollout in August, the application has been used in a number of real-world events and training and planning exercises. |
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