Tallahassee Leon County Geographic Information System (GIS)
The City of Tallahassee, the Leon County Board of County Commissioners, and the Leon County Property Appraiser's Office entered into an Interlocal Agreement in May 1990 to create a joint Geographic Information System (GIS).
The GIS and IMAPS website allows you to use the mapping applications that are currently online.
GIS is an integral part of operations at Police, Fire, Water, Sewer, Gas, Electric and Stormwater as well as having a strong presence in Growth Management, Public Works and Planning plus other departments. The GIS section of City Information Systems Services provides central project management support and direct support for Electric, Water, Gas, Stormwater, & Growth Management.
City GIS also works closely with the Tallahassee/Leon County GIS to ensure that the necessary tools are in place (servers, software, licenses, training) that allow city and county employees to use GIS to perform their primary jobs efficiently. Below are listed a few of the projects that ISS-GIS staff support:
Electric, Gas, Water Utilities link GIS information to enterprise systems
- Electric Utility GIS now contains meter information that is linked back to data in the utility Customer Information System (CIS) via a weekly batch process. New services in the CIS are passed into the GIS and Electric staff connects these new services to the electric lines. This work provides the foundation to support critical COT applications such as Electric Outage Management.
- Gas and Water Utilities are integrating their GIS infrastructure data with CIS data and are linking their data models into the GIS.
- All utility departments provide GIS data that supports the One-Call "Call Before You Dig" service.
GIS information used in other utilities
- Solid Waste Services uses a GIS-based routing solution to support creation of efficient routes for pickup of commercial customers.
- Stormwater uses a parcel-specific GIS application to determine flood elevation. This will allow staff to more easily determine appropriate elevations required to keep buildings above the 100-year flood zone.
GIS information used in other departments
- Daily Operations
GIS data and the infrastructure to support efficient management and distribution of this data provides benefits to many other departments in their daily operations – Planning, Public Works Engineering, Streets and Drainage, Growth Management, Audit, Real Estate, Parks and Rec. The list of departments that benefit from GIS data, applications and analysis goes on! - TPD
GIS provides the backbone for TPD's Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. This ensures that the necessary geographic data (street centerlines, addresses, etc) is available to support dispatch functions. Our custom TLCGIS Mobile Mapping Application is currently in use in all patrol cars, assisting officers with locating addresses and common places. The CrimeView application uses GIS data to assist the Crime Analysis division with tracking crime incidents, reporting patterns to command staff, and assisting in crime prevention activities.
- IMAPS - Maps Online
Web mapping is a great way to bring GIS data and functionality to end-users via web browser. COT GIS and the Interlocal have chosen this as a way to get GIS in the hands of staff and the public who need to view GIS data to effectively do their work, without requiring extensive training or expensive desk-top hardware. This is accomplished by our IMAPS site: http://www.tlcgis.org. - LandID Project
This project will make subdivision development information available to internal staff via GIS. As an example of this, City Electric benefits from access to lot lines before they are formally accepted by the property appraiser. - Dial-A-Ride
StarMetro's Dial-A-Ride program uses GIS data in the routing and rider management system.