Facilities
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| 3D Visualization |
Planning for and adequately managing many of the physical aspects of a school district are becoming more challenging. Geographic questions and solutions are clearly laced in answering many questions.
- What is the state of the overall district built infrastructure and how can data on district assets best be inventoried?
- What capital expenditures are needed to renovate existing but aging schools? What rooms need repainting?
- Where is land for new schools available at a reasonable price with proper zoning?
- What instructional technology assets need to be redeployed to other sites and by what routes are they best delivered?
- What fire extinguishers require charging and where are they? How can safety maintenance work patterns be guided by geography?
- How can CAD drawings and graphical databases be made more relevant and related to other portions of the district management?
These and other questions and tasks that involve the physical setting and operation of a district and all of its various assets can make use of GIS. It begins with the simple recognition of the geographic nature of management activities and databases, and adding a spatial perspective to day-to-day district operations. It progresses with the addition of GIS processes and other information technologies and methods that integrate information into an innovative format that streamlines data collection, dissemination, and use; eliminates redundancies; and facilitates informed decisions and work performance.
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