Abstract

Successfully Organizing and Consolidating Spatial Data for Maryland's Transportation Program
Track: Transportation
Authors: Joe Bizzell, Michel Sheffer

The Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) develops and maintains a vast amount of information that provides significant value to engineers, planners and staff throughout the organization. To overcome this challenge, an enterprise GIS web application - known simply as eGIS was designed and developed to consolidate, organize and analyze information that supports critical transportation programs for the State of Maryland. More than just a web mapping application, eGIS is a framework for consolidating and organizing data and tools to facilitate the management of State programs throughout their full lifecycle. It is a system utilizing ArcGIS Server 10, Esri's REST API for Flex, and multiple web service technologies. eGIS provides a scalable solution to consolidate data and tools from many SHA business units to support business operations.