GIS Contact Information

The GIS Programmer writes all of the GIS applications for the desktop and for the web. He coordinates GIS efforts between departments and divisions, as well as being a liason between the city and other government entities. The GIS Programmer also trains anyone on our GIS software who needs, or wants, to learn it. Monthly GIS meetings are a platform for sharing data, information, and learning tips and tricks on our GIS software.

As a developer, Roger uses a variety of languages, standards, and packages to accomplish GIS programming tasks. These resources include ArcObjects, MapObjects, ArcXML, XML (and related DOM's), XSLT, XPath, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic for Applications, and most importantly, CodeGear (formerly Borland) Delphi 2009.

As far as layer maintenance, Roger maintains the Street Centerlines layer for geocoding purposes.

An employee of the Planning Division, the GIS Planner maintains any and all layers relating to overall city planning. These layers include the zoning layer, our own parcels layer, and the General Plan.

Clint uses ArcEditor 9.3 and Cedra's AVparcel extension to add and modify parcels with the legal descriptions that come right off the plat.

Several GIS layers relating to our water utilities are maintained by Layne and his crew. Using ArcView 9.3 and Gateway Mapping's Spatial IM Extension, the Water Division employees stay current on maintenance information relating to water valves, pressure reducing valves (PRVs), water lines, fire hydrants, and more. He spends several days a month concentrating on the integration of these layers and making sure that his employees are all on the same page. Layne updates his maps with GPS information from the field.

Layne is also over Blue Stakes of Orem and coordinates with Blue Stakes of Utah for underground utility location marking.

Asphalt maintenance is expensive, high profile, and time-consuming. Our asphalt crews must strike a balance between making citizens happy with a comfortable ride on the streets verses making them mad during maintenance. Jared must also make the best use of tax dollars, putting it to use to please the most drivers and residents as possible. Jared uses ArcGIS 9.3, ArcPad 7.0, and Cartêgraph's PAVEMENTview together to collect data on asphalt problems and how to best address them. An internal rating system and a decision matrix help decide what streets to fix, what methods to employ to fix them, and what segments of the streets gets fixed.

Many storm drains carry rain water out of city street back into Utah Lake. But most storm drains carry water to an underground sump, returning water to the earth's soil. Steve has assembled a networked GIS which allows him to model run-off. This network consists of canals, conveyance lines, sumps, ditches, and basins.

Steve is also an accomplished Avenue programmer, having made several ArcView GIS tools for general use in the city.

Waste water is the longest-running maintenance GIS database in the city. Using ArcView 9.3 and Gateway Mapping's Spatial IM Extension, the Waste Water crew collects information on sewerlines and manholes. As they do maintenance on these utilities, they record the facts in GIS. Bill's crew regularly cleans sewer lines, rids manholes of cockroaches, and inspects these subsurface lines with a remote control TV camera on wheels. Everything they find is also entered into the GIS, as well as any recommendations or solutions they implement.