GOVERNANCE
Subject matter that ensures clear schedules, automated update workflows, defined responsibilities and governance rules are followed
What is Data Maintenance?
Department that requests data visualization and spatial analysis to support decisions on land-use changes, zoning laws, infrastructure and growth patterns
What is Planning and Development?
Information that is freely available for anyone to access, use, modify and share without restrictive licensing or fees
What is Open Data?
This central storage environment ensures that parcel, zoning, utilities, and infrastructure layers remain synchronized and authoritative across all departments
What is Enterprise Geodatabase?
The section of governance helps ensure alignment with land-use regulations, environmental reporting standards, and emergency preparedness mandates
What is Policy & Compliance?
Technical services for roads, water systems, sewer lines, parks, and public buildings which allows for efficient tracking, maintenance, and repair scheduling
What is Infrastructure and Asset Management?
This platform centralizes spatial data without needing specialized software, reducing requests to staff and improving transparency and access to municipal data
What is AGOL / Portal?
Enterprise System Administrators monitor this network component that powers web maps, apps, and data streams for internal staff and public-facing GIS portals.
What is the GIS (or ArcGIS) Server?
Area that covers classifying datasets, redacting sensitive features, and applying guidelines before releasing data publicly
What is Privacy and Security Requirements?
This subject matter helps identify high-risk areas, improves disaster preparedness, and provides mapping support during crises, such as search-and-rescue operations or evacuations
What is Emergency Services?
Applications and tools curated to empower citizens to answer their own questions, participate more effectively in planning processes, stay informed about local projects and have access to public information
What is Interactive Maps?
This security practice involves assigning profiles and permissions based on a user’s department, job function, or responsibilities.
What is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)?
A central governance committee that reviews and approves all systems changes
What is CAB (Change Advisory Board)?
Section that delivers interactive maps, data requests, and information about trash pickup, transit, and zoning
What is Public Services?
A web solution to generating custom maps or responding to repetitive information requests in addition to retrieving spatial information for planning applications, infrastructure maintenance, emergency response, and development reviews
What is Self-Serve Tools?
This process ensures that utility attributes, zoning maps, and infrastructure layers remain up-to-date by documenting who edits, when changes occur, and how they are validated.
What is Data Stewardship?
Oversight to ensure that GIS initiatives support mission objectives, avoid redundant projects, and deliver measurable value
What is Strategic Planning?
Type of data services where green space management and sustainability programs, locations of pollution sources, waste disposal sites, and water contamination zones can be visualized and analyzed
What is Public Health and Environmental Monitoring?
Collaborative municipal operations utilize these, reducing inconsistencies and supporting better coordinated decision-making across departments
What is Authoritative Data Layers?
Enterprise admins oversee this high-availability design approach, which keeps essential GIS services running during hardware failures, platform upgrades, or peak public portal traffic
What is Redundant or Load-Balanced System Architecture?