GIS in Chula Vista

San Diego Regional GIS Council Meeting

January 2011

About Chula Vista

2000 population (174,000) – current population (230,000)

Number of city employees increased from 775 to 1200 during same period.

Over 65,000 parcels within City Approx 430 linear street miles Chula Vista centennial

Chula Vista GIS … History

1994 – GIS started in Engineering Dept.A number of layers

(curb,gutter,sidewalk) created from 6” digital orthophoto

1998 – Desktop application development using ArcView / MapObjects

2002 – ArcIMS development 2005 – Begin migration to Enterprise

Geodatabase (SQL-Server)

Chula Vista GIS … Today

GIS used by all Departments GIS Manager / 3 GIS Specialists / 1 part time

intern (Fire Pre Plan) ArcMap used by GIS staff and approximately

20 “core” GIS users throughout the city (ArcView 3.3 removed from network Jan. 1st)

ArcIMS application (CVMapper) used by city staff to access GIS

Ongoing Projects ..

Regional Fire Pre Plan mapping Parcel layer / Permits-Plus synchronization Work Management System (GBA)

synchronization Creating 3-D building models within

redevelopment areas

What’s next ?

Migrate ArcIMS viewer to ArcServer using Silverlight API (eliminate ArcIMS by 1/1/2012)

Participate in ESRI’s Community Basemap Program

More with ArcServer Provide web based editing capabilities to staff ? Create enterprise “search” service to find

maps / data throughout the organization Create Geoprocessing services. (Example:

generate list of all resident addresses within 500’ of proposed rezone)