Case Studies

Bonneville Power Administration [PDF-536 KB, 2 pages]
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) used MapObjects to design an online viewer. The viewer provides BPA employees access to spatial data about BPA's transmission lines.
Energy Currents, May 2006

Schindler Elevator Corp. [PDF-899 KB, 2 pages]
This large company needed a computerized system for managing and routing thousands of technicians. The project team decided on a client/server architecture using MapObjects software with local street map storage. More than $1 million was saved in increased efficiencies with a payback of less than one year. Routes in more than 250 offices were created in two hours instead of more than two weeks.
ESRI case study series, December 2005

Fairfax County Community Services Board Emergency Response System: Notifier
Notifier is a GIS-enabled Windows desktop Emergency Response System that was developed for the Fairfax County Community Services Board (CSB). It was built using Microsoft Visual Basic 6 in conjunction with ESRI MapObjects 2.1. MapObjects is a library of both visual and virtual components, which allows the programmer to add just the right amount of GIS functionality into an application. The vector-based geographic data used by this application is stored as shapefiles, which are in a very basic nonproprietary data format and are usable by most GIS systems. The Aerial photography is stored in MrSID compressed image format.