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GIS prepares Pinellas County for anything

Award-winning enterprise GIS has saved residents $5.2 million per year, improved disaster response, and prepared this community for the future.

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Articles and success stories

Miami Beach mitigates sea-level rise

Climate change

City staff are using GIS to identify the biggest flooding concerns and determine how to consolidate public works projects.

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Sacramento launches new smart 311 system

Citizen engagement

Adding a spatial component to the 311 system helps aid citizens and connect departments. System integration with Salesforce improves efficiency.

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Improving trash monitoring with drones & AI

Artificial intelligence

Using drones and machine learning, coastal communities were able to create a cost-effective approach to actively monitor garbage in public areas.

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ArcGIS Insights helps analyze budget

Equitable budgeting

With a new tool, Topeka Public Works Department helps residents understand how and where public funds are allocated and increases transparency.

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Escondido runs a smart city with ArcGIS Hub

Parks and recreation

To maintain a 3,000-acre conservation area, the city used ArcGIS Hub to engage, recruit, and collaborate with trail maintenance volunteers.

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San Diego prioritizes capital projects

Capital improvement planning (CIP)

The city enabled holistic planning and investment prioritization across departments by integrating GIS into its asset management system.

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Los Angeles County pinpoints park deficits

Parks and recreation

Staff at the department of parks and recreation analyzed the county's 3,024 parks to understand access to parks for residents.

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Dashboards give service calls perspective

Citizen engagement

Baton Rouge public officials turn to GIS to visualize and handle the thousands of citizen service requests they receive on a monthly basis.

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LA County maintains 4,000 facilities with GIS

Facilities management

As an early adopter of ArcGIS Indoors, Los Angeles County proved how indoor mapping can improve facilities management.

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