Track: GIS Management and Implementation
City of Fort Lauderdale and Florida Atlantic University Partnership for Implementing an Enterprise GIS
Scott BurtonPedro Flores, GIS Coordinator
In April 1997, the City of Fort Lauderdale approved an innovative partnership between the City and Florida Atlantic University Geographic Information System Laboratory, housed in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. The purpose of the partnership is to assist the City in developing an enterprise GIS. As an educational partner, Florida Atlantic University has been charged to assist the City in the following areas: (1) produce GIS implementation action plans for each City department, (2) develop and maintain the City-wide GIS basemap, and (3) provide Esri GIS training for City staff. This paper focuses on these implementation tasks from conceptual design to application development, with special emphasis on the partnership between a local government and a state university.
Scott Burton
GIS Lab, Florida Atlantic University
220 SE 2nd Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
USA
Telephone: 954-762-5646
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E-mail: s_burton@fau.edu