Spatial Data Management for the Enterprise: Migrating to Esri Enterprise at the City of Calgary

Author: Gord Rasmussen
Organization: City of Calgary

PO Box 2100, Station M
Calgary, T2P 2M5
Alberta, Canada

gord.rasmussen@gov.calgary.ab.ca

In April 1999, the City of Calgary selected the Esri suite of software and tools to support the revitalized GIS initiative. One of the early challenges for the City of Calgary was the undertaking of an enterprise approach to spatial data management. This presentation will cover many of the discoveries made for converting, connecting, and managing spatial data in a traditional enterprise setting. The City of Calgary will discuss some practical strategies for
- Data replication from legacy GIS to Esri
- Change management in the enterprise
- Interfacing spatial and nonspatial data: mainframe, packages, Oracle, and others
- The challenges of CADD migration
- The creation and ongoing maintenance of spatial metadata
- Performance challenges and solutions
- Disaster/Recovery models