Montgomery County GIS News

DTS-GIS Receives Two NACo Achievement Awards for 2006
The Serving up GIS data for Emergency Managers and the Targeting Programs and Enhancing Revenues With the help of GIS were recognized by the National Association of Counties (NACo) as innovative programs that contribute and enhance county governments in the United States. The first one was also selected as Best of IT Category. Since 1997, DTS-GIS has received achievement awards from NACo for the following (the bulleted links below go to the NACo web site):

• Police Re-districting / Beat Realignment System (1997)
• GIS Map Room on the Net (1999)
• GIS Intranet Server (2000)
• GIS and Agricultural Preservation: An Agricultural Land e-Valuation Program (2000)
• Parking Services Web Site (2001)
• CUPF Ball Fields Guide (2001)
• Apartment Rental Guide On-line Application and Web Site (2002)
• Streetlight Maintenance Reporting Map Service (2002)
• Job Access Project (2002)
• Digital Aerial Photo Image Server (DAPIS) (2003)
• Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) (2003)
• Enabling Water Quality Protection Charge Program (2003)
• Emergency Operation Center Application (2003)
• An Enterprise Geodatabase (2004) (pdf)
• Route Mapper / Places of Interest Guide (2004) (pdf)
• Building Inventory Application (2005) (pdf)
• Constructing a Regional GIS Database for First Responders (2005) (pdf)
• Serving up GIS data for Emergency Managers (2006) (pdf)
• Targeting Programs and Enhancing Revenues With the help of GIS (2006) (pdf)

2006-2007 Events, Conferences, and Meetings

Event	Date	Location
ESRI Users Conference 2006	August 7 - 11	San Diego, CA
2006 Montgomery County GIS User Group Meeting	November 16 (tentative)	Rockville, MD
GIS Day 2006	November 15	World-wide
2006 ESRI Mid-Atlantic Users Group Meeting	November 27 - 29	Philadelphia
ASPRS 2007 Annual Conference	May 7 - 11	Tampa, FL
TUGIS 2007	March 19 - 20	Towson, MD

If you would like to submit an event to the event list, then please email DTS-GIS. Please submit the date, location, and web address for the conference or meeting if possible.