From the Back Room to the Corporate Data Center: Lessons Learned in Migration to an Enterprise GIS

Author: Dave Murray
Organization: City of Aurora

1470 S. Havana St
Aurora, CO 80012
USA

Phone: (303) 739-7482
Fax: (303) 739-7547
dmurray@ci.aurora.co.us

The City of Aurora, Colorado, is a dynamic, fast growing community struggling to keep up with the demands of a booming economy and rapid development. Fortunately the City began developing a GIS in the mid-1980s and now has a mature system with hundreds of users. The transitioning from a paper map based GIS to a real-time data-centric GIS has been a challenge to the developers and users. The City's Strategic GIS Plan has provided a vision for users and managers to follow the development of new technologies. This paper will document the obstacles and the solutions that the City has implemented in the quest for distributed spatial data.