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What We Do In Plain Language - GIS for $1,000's NOT $100,000's DART provides low cost ALTERNATIVE GIS solutions to it's Municipal clients.
Obviously the best mapping for a GIS is the most accurate mapping you have available. Unfortunately the Municipal mapping hanging on your wall in the Town office is not very accurate. On the upside, most Towns can obtain Ontario Basic Mapping (OBM) from the Provincial Government for a small fee. This mapping is usually accurate to approximately 5 metres and is an excellent starting base for a GIS. It contains roads, buildings, major power lines, sometimes contours, and is probably available for your Town in a digital format that can be brought into a GIS with little effort. OBM mapping is available in scales of 1:10,000 for most Municipalities, and 1:2,000 for a smaller number of Municipalities.
Once you have a base for the GIS, either OBM or Town maps, your infrastructure mapping can be added on top of it. OBM mapping is typically accurate to an order of metres. However the Town mapping with your zoning and sewers etc is probably not as accurate. What DART does is match the paper mapping with your infrastructure information to the OBM mapping. In this way the accuracy of your mapping is improved and merges seamlessly into your digital OBM mapping. This provides an extremely high degree of relative accuracy.
Image above: A completed fully functional GIS. Data sets: water, sewer, laterals, homes, properties, roads, contours and all for under $3,000 for this client. No overhead just simple results. Click here for a higher resolution image.
Each paper map - one at a time is matched this way until your mapping is complete. Typically the mapping is then field checked (typically a day or two of drive by investigation and discussions with field staff).
Once the mapping is complete all you existing reports and information are reviewed to glean all the pertinent attribute information for each feature. For example, dates of installation, MH depths etc. Once this is complete the mapping is linked to the database information and your GIS is complete.
No endless meetings, no process flow charts and high priced overhead. We take your existing information, improve it and let you use it. Simple effective and very practical. read more on our approach
