Geographic information system

So when we looked at 2017, the data and everything we collected from 2017, we said, there's a better way to do this.

Our GIS department worked with our equalization department and we wrote using ESRI Survey 123, a survey for the residents.

And that survey had the actual definition from FEMA that said you had water that reached your mechanical systems.

You had water that got to the first floor.

So it was more clear to the people who were self-reporting what that damage looked like.

And then we would actually go and start looking at that information, that data.

And on our tablets that we had in the field with us, we could see what parcels had been looked at, the GIS tablet, through the GIS application.

We could see what parcels had been looked at.

Depending on your budget and the particular auction, that one step may quickly eliminate a substantial percentage of that list.

And you have not even opened the property assessor's website, looked at GIS, researched the title, or anything else for that matter.

You simply went down the list, you looked at a number on that list, and you determine, boom, right off the bat, that property does not fit my budget.

There's no reason to waste time on it.

After that, I will look at the sales history.

I'm a big fan of using prior sales data, even if the most recent sales took place 10 years ago it does not necessarily tell you what the property is worth today but it gives you a piece of useful information that is going to be right there in front of you on that assessor's report in most counties it may help you understand how the property has been treated historically and it provide at least some indication of its potential value at that time Okay, we've gone through the tax list, we've gone through the assessor's report.

If the property has survived everything up to this point, I'm gonna be willing to invest a little bit more time into the property, and I'll do that by opening up the GIS mapping system for the county.

Now, if the county does not have a GIS, you may need to locate a plat map and compare it to Google Maps or some other mapping source.

So we can't avoid construction, but we can coordinate it better.

GIS is so critical here because it can help us understand what will happen if I close these three roads at the same time.

Or what if I split them apart? Pros and cons, right? Maybe it'll cost less if I do them at once because I can share resources.

But what is the impact going to be on construction?

So let's start with safety, which is the first concern for most people.

In the US, 40,000 people die in traffic accidents every year.

So how is GIS, or geographic information systems, being used to reduce that number?

That's such an important question.

His name is Aaron Padilla.

He's a GIS specialist.

So that's going to go along with learning a little bit more about mapping and GPS and the ways that we use those in the present day.

Also on September 17th, it is our SPSU event, which is our word of the week.

I'm curious how much of EarthPlus is software and how much is being the analyst your customer doesn't have?

Yeah, in the end of today, to really understand and analyze the information that it's hiding in these images, you need an AI expert, software experts, GIS experts, and Earth observation experts.

And that's the people that we have plus business.

That's why we built SPY, which is the name of our product.

But when it comes to the Azure AD Entra project specifically, They had a bunch of old Dell T320s or whatever they were, all running Windows Server 2012.

And the options were, do we do that CapEx of $30,000 or $40,000, get a bunch of servers, buy all the device CALs, user CALs, whatever, Or do we take the three softwares that run, which was like a licensing server for their GIS program, a backup script for their cloud storage, because they had already migrated everything from SMB to something called Lucid Blank.

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