Forsyth County is a suburban county located north of Atlanta with an estimated current population of approximately 132,000. The new OnPoint system will be an addition to the county’s current Geographic Information System (GIS), which is based on the ArcGIS® platform from ESRI. OneGIS will install and configure the new web-GIS to work with the county’s existing datasets. The resulting implementation will be county-wide and will allow access to many of the county’s records now residing in their Oracle® based ArcSDE® Geodatabase. These will include planning, parcel, and utility data. OneGIS is a reseller and implementer of OnPoint as well as other application programs from third-party development firms that extend the capabilities of the ESRI ArcGIS platform. OnPoint specifically extends the capabilities of the ESRI Internet Map Server product, ArcIMS™, by making it easy to configure, implement and maintain access to datasets both in the Geodatabase and in other unrelated tables.

Mr. Chris Cirillo, president of OneGIS, commented, “OneGIS is pleased to be able to offer GIS services to Forsyth County, since I personally live in the county and have known them for many years, ever since the time I worked for ESRI. This OnPoint implementation will extend their current ESRI system and will further enhance the use of their Miner & Miner ArcFM™ application. We are confident that the increased access that OnPoint will provide will pay back many times over for the county and will prove invaluable for the employees and citizens.”

Mr. John Kilgore, GIS Manager at Forsyth County added, “OneGIS has supported the county’s utility GIS in the past and the applications that they provided produced successful results, so it was an easy choice to have them return for this project. OneGIS and Orion’s OnPoint will take the Forsyth County GIS team to the next level and should easily meet our goal of providing a great interface into our large repository of geospatial data. The result should be of great value to our staff and to the citizens of the county.”

About OneGIS

OneGIS is a full service consulting, system integration and outsourcing firm specializing in the development of turnkey GIS solutions for the electric, gas, water, wastewater, storm water, telecom, and municipal government markets. Its goal is to provide off the shelf solutions that provide significant business benefit to organizations implementing Geographic Information Systems. OneGIS focuses its development, customization, and implementation efforts solely on ESRI-based applications, thus offering solutions on the best GIS platform available in the market place. For further information, visit www.onegis.net.

About Orion Technology Inc.

Orion Technology, based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, is a technology consulting and services integration company, specializing in web-GIS. Orion's focus is on helping organizations incorporate spatial technology into all facets of their businesses. Orion's wealth of knowledge in the GIS domain and top-notch GIS software-development expertise has been showcased with its award-winning flagship product OnPoint™. OnPoint™ is enjoying growing support in the GIS community, both domestically and internationally, as a standard for providing geographic data through intuitive Internet and Intranet web-based user interfaces. OnPoint™ provides out-of-the-box implementation capabilities, powerful administration tools for customizing and managing the web portal, and unparalleled dataintegration features. Orion's easy-to-use Web-GIS products and custom application development services have helped Orion achieve phenomenal success in securing and delivering projects for reputable clients worldwide - from small organizations to entire countries. To find out more about Orion and its products, visit www.orion-gis.com.