Conference Highlights

Vol. 3 Issue 4
August 2008

It's that time of the year when we jump into our swimsuits and get our sombreros out of the closet. And we count Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, California, and the Southwest U.S (reminiscent of Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson furiously galloping after some bad-looking villains -- think Spaghetti Western here) among our summer plans. And what would have our summer been without the Summer Olympics? After the breathtaking swimming races between the Americans and the French, the bets were flying in the office as to who would win the medal count! But between taking off to some exotic destinations and watching the Olympics, we have been working on great projects. We're thrilled to introduce you to MPIP's MetroPhilaMapper and a fun internal application of our DecisionTree technology. Welcome to another edition of the Azavea Journal.

Early in the morning on August 4th, Robert and Megan happily joined the throngs of people descending on the San Diego Conference Center for the 2008 ESRI International User Conference. The annual event, with over 14,000 attendees, is chock full of presentations, technical workshops, and good times. We were particularly pleased to cheer for the City of Philadelphia, recipient of the 2008 President’s Award in recognition of its groundbreaking enterprise GIS applications.

Over the course of the week-long conference, we presented five of our clients’ projects including Asheville, NC’s Priority Places, the LandStat and Property Fraud applications for the Philadelphia Department of Records, an election incident mapping system designed for the Committee of Seventy, and lead a discussion of automated map development for analysis of campaign contribution origins, which touched on research by both Common Cause New York and MapLight.org.

As always, we enjoyed the opportunity to see the latest and greatest that ESRI and GIS users around the world have to offer, and look forward to applying what we’ve learned to future projects.