Featured Stories: Volume 7 No. 1

• County of Essex's Asset Management Solution / Le comté d'Essex solution de gestion des actifs 
  After an extensive competitive process, the County of Essex (Ontario) including the lower tier municipalities have selected ESRI Canada to implement a complete asset management solution. The solution will take advantage of the already existing ArcGIS foundation to provide the county's public works departments with a spatially-enabled asset management system.

  À la suite d'un processus concurrentiel à grande échelle, le comté d'Essex (Ontario), y compris les municipalités de dernier niveau, ont choisi ESRI Canada pour implémenter une solution complète de gestion de ses actifs. La solution tirera profit de la base ArcGIS déjà existante pour fournir aux services des travaux publics du comté un système de gestion des actifs activé géographiquement.

• Asset Management Solutions/Solutions pour la gestion des actifs
  In today's changing government environment, municipalities are facing tighter budgets, amalgamation, staff reductions, and increasingly higher demands. In addition, changes to municipal legislation and liability concerns are putting tremendous pressure on municipalities to maintain accurate and up-to-date accountings of assets including locations, conditions, and life-cycles.

  En raison des changements qui surviennent régulièrement dans l'environnement gouvernemental d'aujourd'hui, les municipalités doivent faire face à des budgets plus serrés, à des fusions, à une réduction du personnel et à de plus grandes demandes. De plus, des changements apportés aux règlements et arrêtés municipaux ainsi que les préoccupations en matière de responsabilité exercent une pression énorme sur les municipalités afin que celles-ci maintiennent une reddition de compte précise de leurs actifs, y compris des emplacements, des conditions et des cycles de vie.

• Web-based Mining System Wins National Award 
  Ontario's innovative online mining information system has won a prestigious national award, besting private and public sector competition from across the country.
  
  
• Batch Vectorization with ArcScan
  Converting paper maps to a digital format is often a time consuming and tedious task that involves heads up or tablet digitizing. ArcScan is an ArcGIS extension that can be used to create vector data from raster imagery. This method of creating vector data is often faster and more accurate than other manual methods. This process is known as batch vectorization. In this tutorial you will convert parcel data from a georeferenced .tif to a polyline shapefile.
  
  
• Disconnected Editing
  The process of disconnected editing has been developed to facilitate the ability to edit data while disconnected from the central database. The concept of disconnected editing simply involves checking data out from an enterprise geodatabase (ArcSDE) into a personal geodatabase, editing this data, and then uploading the data back into the ArcSDE geodatabase.
  
  
• Mapping Your Farm - The Easy Way 
  In 1999, Nutrient Management Bylaws were put in place in the County of Oxford's five rural townships. Nutrient management plans are triggered by the expansion or new construction of large livestock housing, in accordance with the Township Nutrient Management Bylaws. In 2002, the Province of Ontario passed the Nutrient Management Act, regulating nutrient management for certain livestock operations. Currently, both regimes are in place, affecting nutrient management across a broad spectrum of livestock operations.
  
  
• ArcGIS Server (Bilingual) 
  ArcGIS Server 9.0 is a new product from ESRI to be released as part of the ArcGIS 9.0 suite of products. ArcGIS Server is designed to deploy sophisticated GIS functionality from centralized servers to support enterprise GIS implementations and applications. ArcGIS Server provides the framework for developers to create focused GIS web applications and services that can be utilized by clients including browser-based applications, custom desktop applications, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Engine applications. The entire ArcGIS architecture is built and extended using software components called ArcObjects. ArcObjects are at the core of all ArcGIS products including ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcGIS Server.

  ArcGIS Server 9.0 est un nouveau produit d'ESRI qui sera lancé sur le marché comme partie intégrante de la suite de produits logiciels ArcGIS 9.0. ArcGIS Server a été conçu pour qu'il puisse déployer une fonctionnalité SIG à partir de serveurs centralisés en vue d'accueillir des implémentations et des applications SIG. ArcGIS Server offre le cadre de travail nécessaire aux développeurs pour créer des applications et des services Web centrés sur les SIG dont peuvent bénéficier les clients, y compris les applications par navigateur, les applications de bureau personnalisées et celles pour ArcGIS Desktop et ArcGIS Engine. L'architecture d'ArcGIS a été élaborée et élargie en son entier, grâce à l'utilisation de composants appelés ArcObjects. Ces composants font partie du noyau de tous les produits ArcGIS, y compris ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine et ArcGIS Server.
  

• ArcGIS Engine (Bilingual) 
  ESRI's solutions are emerging as an integral component in nearly every type of business and government service. ESRI's GIS integrates different systems to save valuable resources, visualize and value an organization's assets, and streamline work flow processes.

  Les solutions d'ESRI sont en train de devenir un composant intégral de presque tous les types de services commerciaux et gouvernementaux. Les SIG d'ESRI permettent d'intégrer différents systèmes pour économiser les ressources, visualiser les actifs d'une organisation et en faciliter l'évaluation et simplifier les processus de travail.
  

• Education Spotlight 
  GIS Day 2003 was a huge success as hundreds of organizations all around the world hosted events. GIS users, vendors, and students celebrated GIS Day by showcasing real-world applications for general and technical audiences. In Canada alone, there were over 40 events ranging from facility tours and open houses, to presentations and GIS contests.