Systems Integration: SDE for Oracle on Windows NT and HTE, Inc., Software on an IBM AS/400

Author: David Koehler
Organization: PlanGraphics, Inc.

1300 Spring St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Phone: (301) 588-8535
Fax: (301) 588-5979
dkoehler@plangraphics.com

Boca Raton, Florida, is a city of 70,000 residents situated within Palm Beach County. Boca Raton has a population increase during the winter months to approximately 86,000. The City has worked with Palm Beach County to develop GIS capabilities through acquisition of land base and parcel data. Boca Raton uses IBM AS/400 operating software by HTE, Inc., from Orlando, Florida. HTE produces software modules designed for local government management of information related to land management, building permits, occupational licensing, code enforcement, planning and zoning, and several other activities. Boca Raton is integrating data contained in the HTE system with its GIS. To accomplish this, Boca Raton is implementing SDE for Oracle to store and manage the spatial data and ArcView GIS and MapObjects IMS to provide user access to the spatial data linked to attributes coming from the HTE modules. This paper describes the issues encountered during GIS implementation and HTE integration activities.