Paper Using ArcView GIS to Extract and View Environmental Health Data From Our ENVISION Database

Author: Ruthanne Harbison
Organization: Madera County

216 W 6TH ST
MADERA, CA 93637
USA

Phone: (559) 675-7823
Fax: (559) 675-7823
envhealth@thegrid.net

The Environmental Health Department in Madera County (California) is just getting into the GIS arena. We saw the need to be able to analyze our custom environmental health data with ArcView GIS against our County basemap. However, we are just learning ArcView GIS and wanted a simple way to do just that. We contracted with a company in Merced to develop a user-friendly interface that had the same look and feel of the custom software that we already use. The result has been a very flexible and yet powerful application that allows us to use ENVISION and ArcView GIS at the same time. It also has a "button" to ArcView GIS that we can use to quickly access ArcView GIS tools if we need to do additional work with our project.