GISP Certification

Interwest congratulates three of our GIS team on their recent GISP Certification.


GISP Certification Renewal:

Steve Gay, GISP


New GISPs:

Jason Latoski, GISP
Mary Ellen Rosebrough, GISP

Esri User Group Conference 2015

Join us at Esri's User Conference in San Diego, July 20 - 24th. We hope to see you at the Regional User Group Reception on Tues, July 21st, 5:30 - 7:00pm, West Terrace Upper Level.

Sacramento GIS User Group Presentation: The Elk Grove Enterprise GIS Platform

Last month, Steve Gay gave a presentation at the Sacramento GIS User Group meeting featuring the City of Elk Grove's GIS Implementation. View the presentation here. 

CalGIS Conference

Join us today and tomorrow at CalGIS at the Sheraton in downtown Sacramento, booth #308.

Webinar: Asset Management Using SharePoint and GIS, Tues 5/19/15 at 10:30am PT

Webinar: Tues, May 19^th 10:30am – 11:30am

Asset Management Using SharePoint and GIS

Please join us for an informative webinar featuring examples of asset management projects Interwest has implemented for local government agencies including facilities maintenance tracking in SharePoint and asset inspections and repair tracking using Collector for ArcGIS.

Warm regards, Steve Gay | GIS and IT Manager interwest Consulting Group | sgay@interwestgrp.com D 916.436.3017 |M 916.838.6870 | www.interwestgrp.com

Weed Abatement for Fire Prevention Using GIS

Every year the City of Merced's Fire Department conducts a weed abatement survey to identify and locate areas where weed over-growth can cause a potential fire hazard.  

Residents are required to maintain their properties year round by removing weeds as well as other combustible debris such as junk wood, dead trees, and dead brush. Adherence to the ordinance is critical during the dry season.

Interwest partnered with the City’s GIS department to quickly develop a web based inspection application to help track all the information tied to the weed abatement survey. 

Read more here: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/article3259195.html#storylink=cpy

The GIS application helped the city gather the information in just a few weeks, allowing staff to analyze the data and work with citizens on mitigating the potential fire hazards.

Interested in having Interwest's GIS Solutions team create a web application for your agency?  Contact the GIS Team to get started. 

Drought Response and Water Conservation with GIS

The City of Elk Grove's citizens are served by multiple water purveyors. Each agency is responsible for determining rationing and restrictions of its customers as California faces the most severe drought in recorded history. The City created a web page to help citizens determine which agency services their home and their home's permitted watering days and times. 

Interwest's GIS team assisted this effort by creating a web map for citizens to determine which agency services their home.

In addition to the webmap, Interwest created a widget for the webpage that allows a citizen to look up their address and determine their watering restrictions. Addresses auto-fill as the citizen types, the citizen selects the appropriate address and searches.

The widget accesses the rest end point of the ArcGIS Online hosted feature service to display restrictions based on the water purveyor servicing that address and the even/odd address number of the parcel.

Interested in having Interwest's GIS Solutions team assist with your agency's drought response efforts?  Contact the GIS Team to get started.