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History | Creation |
Today | Mission | Goals
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In the beginning, there was RUIS...
In 1984, the City of San Diego and County of San Diego jointly initiated
the Regional Urban Information System (RUIS) project in response to
the increasing complexity of delivering efficient and effective municipal
services to the residents of this large and growing region. The mission
of the RUIS project was to develop a highly integrated geographic information
system (GIS) designed to meet the needs of all City and County activities
that create or use geographic information. RUIS' goals were: to improve
productivity; reduce costs; provide access to accurate, timely information
for decision making; and to improve service to citizens.
Through the RUIS program, a highly integrated GIS was created including
data, software, hardware, and administrative components necessary to
operate a successful GIS. Over 200 layers of geographic data were created
through RUIS. Some of these layers are county-wide while others cover
only the City of San Diego. These databases are maintained by various
County and City departments and are made available to all participating
departments through a distributed network. Several GIS applications
have been implemented for use in critical day-to-day operations within
the City and County. The RUIS project helped improve decision making
and efficiency in local government by providing more timely information,
eliminating redundant activities and by re-engineering and automating
manual processes. RUIS is considered one of the most successful multi-participant
geographic information system ever attempted. It was presented the Exemplary
System in Government award by the Urban and Regional Information Systems
Association (URISA) at its 33rd Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas
in July, 1995.
SanGIS Creation
SanGIS was created in July, 1997, as a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA)
between the City and County of San Diego. After 13 years of working
together on data and application development, the City and County decided
to formalize their partnership in GIS by creating the SanGIS JPA. Finding
that access to correct and current geographic data was considered more
important than application development to County and City departments,
SanGIS focuses on ensuring geographic data is maintained and accessible.
SanGIS Today
The SanGIS joint powers agency was created in July 1997 due to the desire
of the City and County to formalize and continue their commitment to
a common geographic information system (GIS) and to strive to recover
some of the associated on-going costs. The creation of SanGIS is the
City and County’s recognition that a GIS is never completed. GIS
tools and data are now used for decision-making and in the performance
of several government functions. Without current, accurate and accessible
data these processes become questionable or fail.
SanGIS Mission:
To maintain and promote the use of a regional geographic data warehouse
for the San Diego area and to assist in the development of shared geographic
data and automated systems which use that data.
Goals:
• To ensure geographic data currency and integrity.
• To provide cost effective access to geographic data to member
agencies, subscribers and the public.
SanGIS Facts:
- Over 400 geographic data layers.
- Over 500 internal City and County users through a high speed wide
area network.
- Over 400 external data clients.
- Over 2000 maps delivered each day via www.sangis.org interactive mapping.
- Annual budget of $1.5 million (split 50/50, City/County)
SanGIS Responsibilities and
Services:
• Regional landbase maintenance (roads, lots, parcels for all
of San Diego County).
• Centralized, regional data warehousing.
• Public Access to maps and geographic data via the Internet at
www.sangis.org.
• Map products generated on demand for the public.
• Mapping and small GIS project support for City & County
departments.
SanGIS Board Members:
Chandra Wallar, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, County of San Diego
Matt McGarvey, Chief Information Officer, City of San Diego
Acting Executive Director:
Andrew Abouna
SanGIS Staff:
The SanGIS team includes 12 staff employed through the County of San
Diego, City of San Diego or via contract. Because landbase maintenance
is our primary mission, over half (7) of our staff are assigned fulltime
data maintenance duties. Two staff work directly with the public, assigned
to map and data delivery duties and the remaining staff provide in-house
technical support (database administration, system administration, web
site maintenance, etc).
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