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City of Las Vegas Geodatabase Design - Implementing an Enterprise Solution
Track: Database Design, Automation, and Management
Author(s): Anthony Willis, Elizabeth Marshall, Masao Matsuoka

With 500,000 residents and 113 square miles, Las Vegas is the largest city in the U.S. founded in the 20th century, and one of the fastest growing metropolitans in the country. The City of Las Vegas is one of Esri's earliest adoptors, using ArcInfo since the late 1980s. Recently, the City implemented Hansen as its enterprise system. Integration between Hansen and GIS, creation of a spatial data warehouse, and migration to current ArcGIS technology became a priority.



Led by the IT Department, the City's GIS users worked closely with professionals from Marshall to design a geodatabase that laid the foundation for both integration and migration. The geodatabase design takes advantage of ArcSDE, but also has built-in structures to allow effective synchronization between spatial and Hansen databases. This article summarizes the issues encountered and their solutions, the achievements, and the lessons learned during the enterprise geodatabase design process for a major city.



Anthony Willis
City of Las Vegas
Information Technology
400 Stewart Ave
Las Vegas , NV 89101
US
Phone: 702-229-2075
E-mail: awillis@lasvegasnevada.gov

Elizabeth Marshall
Marshall and Associates, Inc.
1603 Cooper Point Rd NW
Olympia , WA 98502
US
Phone: 360-352-1279
E-mail: emarshall@marshallgis.com

Masao Matsuoka
Marshall and Associates, Inc.
1603 Cooper Pt Rd NW
Olympia , WA 98502
US
Phone: 360-352-1279
E-mail: mmatsuoka@marshallgis.com