—Mary Stallings, Grimail Crawford, Inc.
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With all the major economic crises and the fluctuation of fuel costs, there is an increasing focus on how to continue to make items and commodities accessible to the general public. Many manufacturers are trying to reduce the cost of getting products to market, and in many ways people don't normally think about. For example, did you ever wonder how all those goldfish you see in pet store got there, or where they came from? Did you know that dead bodies are a major cargo shipment on passenger planes? These are but two of the facts regarding the logistics of "goods" that have been identified through the Tampa Bay Regional Goods Movement project. Grimail Crawford Inc. was tasked with developing and maintaining a spatial database of the intermodal features that connect Tampa Bay to the global market. By using our working relationship with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 7 Office of Information Systems, we are able to tap in to the local FDOT Enterprise Geodatabase, create web-based interfaces for field data collection, and organized the project by modules. From this, we created an information kiosk for not only the high-end users, but also the Metropolitan Planning Organization staff and other local governments as well as the general public, developed using the Esri Developer Network (EDN), and then eventually ported to the FDOT's ArcGIS Server.