URISA Awards PlanGraphics' Clients.Business Editors, Technology Writers FRANKFORT, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA URISA Urban and Regional Information Systems Association ) has chosen New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Mayor's Office of Emergency Management and NYC's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications for an Exemplary Systems In Government (ESIG ESIG European Solvents Industry Group ESIG Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (US National Center for Atmospheric Research) ESIG Electronic Signature ESIG Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique de Gestion ) Award. The technology award is for the City's successful emergency management solution, the Emergency Management Online Locator System (EMOLS) application developed by PlanGraphics, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :PGRA PGRA Plant Growth Regulator Abstracts (database) ) The EMOLS application helps citizens locate, via the Web, a variety of emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' including, but not limited to, hurricane evacuation information, coastal storm emergency shelters, and cooling center information. In the wake of September 11th, the system was swiftly adapted to provide pertinent emergency information 24/7 to New York City's 8 million residents during the most crucial times and played an important role in increasing the public's confidence in government and how they were handling the disaster. The ESIG Awards were inaugurated in 1980 by URISA to recognize extraordinary achievement by government agencies in the use of automated information systems. This achievement is defined as the effective application of computer technology that can be measured in terms of improved government services and increased benefits to citizens. The annual award competition is open to all public agencies at the federal, state/provincial, regional, and local levels. URISA is a non-profit association of professionals using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other information technologies to solve challenges in all state and local government agencies and departments. PlanGraphics, founded in 1979, is a full life-cycle systems integration and implementation firm that provides a broad range of services in the design and implementation of information technology in the public and commercial sectors. PlanGraphics' experience with spatial information systems and assets provides a critical discriminator dis·crim·i·na·tor n. 1. One that discriminates. 2. Electronics A device that converts a property of an input signal, such as frequency or phase, into an amplitude variation, depending on how the signal differs from a among other IT consulting and integration firms. PlanGraphics is headquartered in Frankfort, Kentucky, and has regional offices in Maryland, Colorado, California, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey. For more information about the company and our most recent achievements, please visit our Web site at www.plangraphics.com. |
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