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It is impossible to highlight all the applications and uses of GIS throughout the LOJIC consortium in this application. We would like to acknowledge, though, several additional agencies that are using the GIS to accomplish integral functions within their departments. Of particular note are:
- Louisville Public Works Department that has been a long time user of LOJIC, and maintains applications programming staff that support mapping functions in many city departments. Public Works also maintains the city portion of many datasets. Their pavement management system and innovative applications that integrate images and complex analysis into routing, intersection signalization and facilities management set an example for the city agencies that they support. Public Works programming staff wrote the IPLADD application for the Inspections, Permits and Licensing Department that helps track parcels that are currently undergoing change or redevelopment.
- The Jefferson County Board of Elections has become a robust GIS user agency and aggressively incorporated use of the GIS into their routine functions, and has taken over maintenance of all political district boundaries. The agency currently works with the Legislative Research Commission and the State Board of Elections to define and maintain coherent precinct and district boundaries among the agencies. In addition, all precinct maps are currently plotted off LOJIC and made available to the public and political candidates. LOJIC maps are used in pre-election advertising for polling station locations. The Board of Elections recently deployed an Internet GIS application that allows public queries by address to determine polling locations and summaries of elected officials.
- Metro Police have created their police districts and beats using ArcView and routinely maintain the boundaries for verification. They are using geocoding to depict problem areas for crime and plan to use the charting and layout capabilities of ArcView to produce monthly reports of crime statistics and have used the system to find the street mileage within each beat in their districts.
- The Urban Police plan to use the system in their radio room to help locate calls for dispatch. They also use GIS to geocode and map incidents as part of their crime analysis strategy. They are currently standardizing street names in their database to increase the match rate for their incident maps. The standardized street names will correspond to the Street Index File.
- Emergency Management Agency uses the LOJIC GIS to model emergency response and evacuation scenarios, target hazardous facilities, and analyze coverage areas for emergency sirens. They are cooperating with FEMA toward using LOJIC to develop earthquake and storm response models and have received federal funds to support their Community Emergency Response planning.
- County Division of Environmental Health and Protection, a partnership of the County Health Department and the Department of Planning and Environmental Management, is using ArcView and ArcExplorer to provide geographic information to their staff for analysis of possible health and environmental risk factors. They have used ArcView to find areas in Jefferson County that need increased lead screening by determining a relationship between the number of young children who have been screened for blood lead and the age of the house in which they live. County Health received a $1.5 million grant to expand the scope of this research.
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