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A Geographic Approach Makes Orlando a Smart City
Orlando city staff worked to clearly define, elevate, and embrace initiatives that would help them meet community challenges more effectively.
How do governments benefit from a geographic approach?
Government leaders take a geographic approach to shape priorities, policies, and engagement. Leveraging enterprise-grade geographic information system (GIS) technology, they use maps, apps, analytics, and dashboards to manage issues such as equity, economic development, transit, land management, health, and safety.
Build intelligent, resilient infrastructure
Key to upgrading critical assets is understanding how infrastructure relates to communities and natural systems—what is happening where. Infrastructure systems are being infused with technologies including GIS, digital twins, sensors, and advanced analytics.
- Asset and network management: Monitor asset location, condition, performance, and life cycle.
- Planning and logistics: Share information to prevent disruption.
- Operational awareness and efficiency: Watch workflows in real time.
- Prioritization and equity: Reveal patterns of inequality.
Respond to disasters and prepare for climate change
Geography is a powerful tool in response and risk mitigation, empowering government leaders to anticipate weather events and climate impacts and plan accordingly.
- Monitor situations in real time.
- Track incidents and resources.
- Know the status of vulnerable people and assets.
- Model scenarios to aid prevention and response.
Spatial analysis informs data-driven planning
A geographic approach to government supports agility. Leaders of smart cities and counties use GIS to prioritize infrastructure investments and optimize planning and policy decisions, such as where to create sustainable housing or green space.
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Esri BlogOpen Data Boosts Collaboration in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has long been a leader in open data and taking a data-driven approach, and mapping is often the way it approaches problems. -
Esri BlogMaps of Contamination Focus City Redevelopment
Regional planning around Bridgeport, Connecticut, focuses on revitalizing industrial sites to fill gaps in the supply chain and manufacturing. -
Esri BlogDigital Twin Helps Visualize Revitalization
Regional planners in Detroit, Michigan, apply 3D GIS tools to forecast growth, communicating important details to partners and the public.
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Maps inform planning and recovery
Geospatial analysis highlights risks to create a base of knowledge for improving safety and mitigating threats. Officials use a geographic approach to government to enhance collaboration across departments and support recovery efforts.
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Esri BlogThai Cave Rescue Exemplifies Collaborative Action
Using maps, rescuers collaborated and combined knowledge about the cave system and cave diving to devise a rescue plan that ultimately succeeded. -
Esri BlogPreparing for Climate Change with City Simulator
Boulder, Colorado, gained a new understanding of infrastructure and resident vulnerabilities from Atkins' City Simulator and GIS technology. -
Esri BlogReal-Time Wildfire Awareness Emerges
With wildfire size and damage growing, a near real-time awareness helps the public stay informed and improves the coordination of firefighters. -
Esri BlogExtreme Heat Events Spur Climate Action
Prague planners use modern mapping tools to assess vulnerability to climate change and mitigate against extreme heat events.
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