Information
Technology
  | Eric Rupert
Information Systems
Phone: (954) 973-6795 |
An efficient, modern city needs access to a vast amounts of information, quickly. Recording financial transactions, retrieving vital documents, and communicating both within and outside the City requires computers, networks, phones, servers and databases. All of these things help other departments within the city do their tasks faster, more accurately and less expensively. Information Systems plans, acquires, installs, and supports the City's proprietary and open computing environments, including mainframe, desktop, micro, and mobile computers. In addition, this department develops software programs for other departments, provides network services to the City, develops and maintains the official City web site, and trains new employees in a wide variety of Windows and Unix-based software applications. Building a Better Web Site
Besides enabling other City government departments to do their jobs better, Information Sytems wants you to get the most out of this web site. If you have any suggestions or comments about things you'd like to see online, please feel free to contact us here.
G.I.S. (Geographic
Information Systems)
The G.I.S. division is a part of the City's Information Systems
Department and handles requests ranging from generating large format prints of maps
and AsBuilts, to projects that require months in analyzing, gathering, and
overlaying map-products from diverse sources. Engineering plans and information is
categorized, stored, displayed, and analyzed according to Florida's Section-Township-&-Range
geographic classifications, as well as by individual village and subdivisions.
The G.I.S. division has created a Parcel Basemap of the City, integrating new
City-wide Pentamation software with G.I.S., and is creating a comprehensive address
map that will display and identify every parcel and every road in the city.
What is G.I.S.?
"G.I.S." is an acronym for Geographic Information Systems,
and unlike many other graphic, drafting, or mapping technologies, it has the power
to link "spacial-data" [objects on a map] with a separate Table that itself
displays numbers and text explaining the selected map-features (such as houses and
water/sewer lines). The principal software applications used by Coconut Creek's
G.I.S. practitioners are ArcGIS-8.2 and ArcView-3.1, as well as ArcIMS-4.0 for internet
functions.
More than a dozen years ago, when GIS was just a juvenile among other computer
technologies, "Business Week" published the following commentary:
The great power of GIS lies in the connection ("link") between the
map displayed on the computer-screen, & the information stored in the computer's
memory, concerning every road, parcel, building & other structure or "infrastructure"
shown on the computerized-map itself. These maps may also be printed-out and distributed
to employees, just as if they were "road-maps" or any other kind of map.
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