Bexar Metropolitan Water Subscribes to MapCiti to Enhance Service; Web-Enabled GIS Solution to Facilitate More Accurate and Timely Communication.Business/Technology Editors Syncline(R), Inc. today announced that Bexar Metropolitan Water District has subscribed to MapCiti(TM) (www.mapciti.com), Syncline's fully automated e-government mapping service. MapCiti enables organizations to immediately Web-enable their geographical information systems Geographical Information System - Geographic Information System (GIS) and provide essential services and information to internal departments and the general public without additional investments in technology. Facilitating Communication and Information Access Bexar Metropolitan Water provides water services to 75,000 customer accounts in the San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. area. The utility dispatches approximately 30 servicemen per day to perform routine maintenance on the area's water systems. Currently, dispatchers communicate the details of a particular job to servicemen in the field via telephone. With MapCiti, Bexar will be able to load all of its geo-referenced infrastructure data, including aerial photography This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , into MapCiti's fully hosted, web-based mapping application and create regional maps of the city's water infrastructure online. Dispatchers and servicemen will access and view these maps from any location, using only a standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , to communicate about jobs. By clicking on entities on the map, they will retrieve detailed information about those entities, including hotlinks to other information sources housed at Bexar. "MapCiti will enable us to integrate multiple sources of data about our infrastructure into maps that are easy to access and use for performing maintenance and visual analysis," said Armando Aguirre, GIS Analyst at Bexar. "The service also allows us to have an offsite backup for our valuable GIS data, and to disperse it departmentally as needed as needed prn. See prn order. ." Matthew Gentile, co-founder and COO of Syncline, said, "Bexar Metro recognizes the tremendous time and cost savings associated with more accurate communication between dispatchers and servicemen." Gentile added, "In this way, MapCiti will enable Bexar to provide faster and better service to its customers." About Syncline(R), Inc. Founded in 1997, Syncline, Inc. is the leading provider of products and solutions that allow customers to visualize and analyze spatial data Data that is represented as 2D or 3D images. A geographic information system (GIS) is one of the primary applications of spatial data (land maps). See spatial analysis, spatial resolution and GIS glossary. using maps they create, share and manage via the Internet. The company's customers include state and local government organizations, as well as the Fortune 1000. Syncline partners with industry and technology leaders such as ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. , Oracle, Sun MicroSystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , TeleAtlas and GDT GDT Global Descriptor Table GDT Geographic Data Technology Inc. GDT Gas Discharge Tube (energy, electrotechinical and electronics) GDT Getting Things Done GDT Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing GDT Ground Data Terminal to deliver its comprehensive solutions. A member of the ESRI Corporate Alliance, Syncline was named ESRI "Partner of the Year" in 2001. Syncline is located in Boston, Mass. For more information, visit www.syncline.com. Copyright(c)2002 SYNCLINE, INCORPORATED. All Rights Reserved. Syncline is a registered trademark of Syncline, Inc. MapCiti is a trademark of Syncline, Inc. All other company and product names referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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