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Geodesy creates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solutions for local, state, and federal government agencies and the built environment industries.

DAMAGE App Released to Android Market	Geodesy has released "Palo Alto DAMAGE", a post-disaster damage reporting tool, to the Android app store. DAMAGE enables the rapid and accurate gathering of the severity and location of injuries, structure damage and infrastructure hazards resulting from a disaster. Reports can be submitted to an Emergency Operations Center via email, web, or local network. Geodesy is working on a version of DAMAGE that will be configurable by any agency (not just Palo Alto).
Park City Lot Investigator App Prototype Complete	Geodesy has completed the prototype for a Lot Investigator web app for Park City, Utah. Lot Investigator will allow city staff to easily search on an address and report characteristics overlaying that location such as zoning and soil conditions. It is written as a web part for Park City's SharePoint site using ESRI's ArcGIS API for Silverlight technology.
Encompass GIS Highlighted in "Surface Matters" Newsletter	Walter Dommann of Cochise County has written an informative article about the County's innovative use of Encompass as their GIS for the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC) newsletter. Walter emphasized the County's successful multi-departmental involvement, the innovative linkages between scanned documents and the GIS, and the County's use of a custom low-distortion projection (LDP) for their topographically diverse locale.
Prescott Uses Gist to Evaluate Fire Risk	The City of Prescott (AZ) now uses Gist on a mobile PC in the field to gather structure assessment data used to evaluate fire risk. Data collected in the field at the time of the assessment, including digital photos, are linked to the structure features in the GIS. The photos and other site data are uploaded to Prescott's GIS server and synced with existing data when the mobile PC is reconnected to the city's network.
CIP Ready for Use on US Air Force and NASA Facilities	Geodesy has completed development of CIP, short for Capital Improvement Program. CIP is an Access application written to assist AECOM in creating and comparing 30-year planning scenarios for US Air Force bases and NASA campuses. Geodesy's Access work on this project was supported significantly by associates at Aptiv and Habidat. CIP is non-graphic (unlike the majority of Geodesy's applications) but is designed to be presented through the BRT globe-viewer gateway which is under development by Geodesy.
BRT Globe Viewer Gateway Under Development for the US Air Force	Geodesy is working with AECOM to thematically render US Air Force base facility survey and planning results in ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer globe-viewer. This application, code named BRT, is intended to act as an existing conditions and planning overview tool for Air Force management as well as a gateway to current and future facilities data.
Encompass Expands in Cochise County	Cochise County (AZ) has added Avec, Geodesy's GIS editing application, to their existing installed base of Encompass software. They now have Encompass software running on 350+ workstations and log 1500+ sessions per month. The cities of Sierra Vista and Bisbee, along with the Fry Fire district, have also adopted the use of Encompass and share GIS data with Cochise County.
CadStat now Maps Emergency Vehicle Locations	Geodesy is helping the City of Palo Alto (CA) to track incoming 9-1-1 calls at their Emergency Operations Center using an application called CadStat that is tailored to the city's SQL Server-based Encompass GIS. The calls appear on a big screen and on individual dispatcher workstations as they come in and their depiction is updated on the maps as the call is answered and dispatched.
NASA/Ames Buildings and Floor Plans Now in 3D	Geodesy has completed work with DMJMH+N on the 3D modeling of buildings and floor plans at NASA/Ames. Campus buildings where modeled in Google Sketchup for display in Google Earth. Geodesy created software to thematically render (colorize) buildings by selected planning attributes and to extrude building floor plans into 3D. NASA staff can now use Google Earth to select and "fly to" buildings, rooms, and employees and view associated data.
Parcel COGO Entry Tool added to AMS	Geodesy has completed development and deployed the "Assessor's Mapping System" application for the County of Alameda (CA). AMS is a Windows desktop parcel editing application and includes an efficient metes-and-bounds parcel entry tool. It replaces Alameda County's use of their old McDonnell Douglas GDS system. AMS uses an Encompass interface to edit Alameda's underlying SQL Server-based ESRI ArcSDE geodatabase cadastre.
Dox Use on the Rise at Palo Alto	Dox, Geodesy's GIS-centric document management technology, is now in use by the Building, Planning, Public Works, and Fire departments at the City of Palo Alto. Dox has been in use at Palo Alto since 2004 and is used to varying degrees by the City of Mountain View, NASA/Ames, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and Cochise County.