Abstract
Building web platforms across agencies for healthy communities
Track: Mapping and Visualization
Authors: Steve Spiker, John Garvey
In Alameda County a nonprofit social change organization has leveraged its geospatial experience to develop a dynamic web mapping and data visualization platform for policy makers, officials, residents and researchers. This new platform is a basis for publishing all available data across multiple county and city agencies with very little investment or overhead to the county and is a powerful approach to incubating and disseminating local data to support data driven decision making in the government and nonprofit sectors.
To date almost all ArcGIS Server systems have struggles to handle large volumes of thematic data and have had limited visualization options. This new platform attempts to tackle those issues common in the health and human services sectors.