![]() ![]() As he worked to untangle the data and server, more and more GIS departments around the county joined his core GIS group, growing from 2 people to 18 in just eight months. Moss managed to track down the right passwords and started implementing changes. That's when Moss knew something had to be done. Moss said: "We didn't know how to get into the server, and we didn't know how to change it." Director Moss learned that an employee in charge of GIS for regulatory agencies had left without sharing passwords or documentation. The pivotal moment came in 2014 when the county almost lost access to its data and servers. Furthermore, we weren’t able to capture spatial data very well back then because data that were collected in the field were recorded on paper." As a result, there was a lot of manual work involved to get data refreshed. Hossack said: "We did not have integration with other databases that hosted business data in nonspatial SQL Server tables. File-based GIS data were managed as shapefiles in shared folders or Personal Geodatabases in Microsoft Access. At the time, there was no enterprise geodatabase. Steve Hossack, now GIS software architect, was hired as a database administrator six and a half years ago. Figuring out which data source to update was difficult because individuals edited and kept versions on different desktops. ![]() You never really knew which was authoritative or the newest at the time."ĭata was also static and only updated quarterly, recalled GIS analyst Christopher Turner. Data was in many geodatabases, in many shapefiles, and in 17 different iterations on everybody's computer across the county. Kacie Baker, GIS software architect, said: "Data was definitely siloed. For years, data was managed by different groups all over the county with little collaboration between them. ![]()
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