Regional Municipality of York Selects GO! Sync Mobile GIS
Written by TC Technology
Monday, 23 June 2008
Carlsbad, CA, June 23, 2008 TC Technology announces the Regional Municipality of York, located in Ontario, Canada chose GO! Sync Mapbook with the Redline and Inspection Extensions as its Mobile GIS standard.
GO! Sync was selected because of its intuitive user interface, comprehensive viewing, sketching, and inspection capabilities, and seamless extension of geographic information system (GIS).
The Regional Municipality of York is a confederation of nine municipalities and provides services to over 850,000 residents, 25,000 businesses and 395, 000 employees. York Region has a two-tier government structure, with services provided by the Region and local area municipal governments. The Region provides services for its residents and businesses that include transportation services, transit, water, wastewater, emergency services, policing, human services and growth management.
The Water and Wastewater Branch at the Regional Municipality of York is deploying GO! Sync Mobile GIS to put maps complete with sketching and inspection tools into the hands of its field force where efficiency benefits are expected. Targeted improvements to field operations include routine maintenance, underground locating, and manhole, sewer, and CCTV sewer inspections.
Providing a consistent and effective way to share GIS data with field staff is our primary goal,” states Balaram Basmall, GIS Analyst. With GO! Sync, we can accomplish this goal with proven software that is both powerful and easy to use.
GO! Sync Mobile GIS is a complete mobile solution built for organizations invested in ESRI's ArcGIS software. Rendering directly from a geodatabase and providing a suite of field-friendly tools such as searching, tracing, sketching, inspecting, and routing on an extensible application framework.
About Regional Municipality of York The Regional Municipality of York is located in the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Southern Ontario and is the only GTA Region without direct access to Lake Ontario. York Region is composed of nine area municipalities covering 1,756 square kilometres (678 square miles), stretching from the City of Toronto in the south to Lake Simcoe and the Holland Marsh in the north, and bounded by Peel Region in the west and Durham Region in the east.
About TC Technology TC Technology is a proven leader in Mobile GIS providing both products and services to a broad range of markets across the nation. Our solutions are built using GO! Sync, The Mobile GIS Standard. GO! Sync Mobile GIS provides organizations complementary options for deploying easy-to-use geospatial information into the hands of its field force where significant return on investment is achieved www.tctechnology.com
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