Our clients

Spatial Focus is proud to serve the following clients:

City of Bellevue, WA
Client since 2008

Spatial Focus assisted the city in updating its Land Information System, specifically with regard to address data and address business processes

Union County, GA
Client since 2008

Spatial Focus provided quality assurance services for address data compiled during an orthophoto and parcel mapping project

DMTI Spatial, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Client since 2008

Spatial Focus was retained by DMTI Spatial to assist them in evaluating their Canadian address management software in light of U.S. Addresses.

The Urban Institute, MEGA Project, Republic of Serbia
Client since 2007

Spatial Focus worked with municipal governments in the Republic of Serbia in setting up land information systems.

ESRI, Redlands, CA
Client since 2007

Spatial Focus is working with ESRI to develop additional addressing tools that will be compliant with the draft FGDC Street Address Data Standard.

City of Raleigh, NC
Client since 2007

Spatial Focus provided the City of Raleigh with an evaluation of their present addressing business practices and data, along with performing a Level 1 LUCA evaluation of City addresses for the 2010 Census.
Spatial Focus has been retained to prepare a Strategic Implementation Plan for the implementation of a Master Address Repository. The Plan includes tasks designed to improve workflows, make organizational changes to support best practices addressing, and database and data tasks to develop an enterprise-wide address Repository.
Spatial Focus is also performing quality control for annual updates of the City's orthophotography and planimetric and topographic data.

City of Charlotte, NC
Client since 2007

Spatial Focus conducted a 2 day workshop on Addressing for the City's IT/GIS department, focusing on the draft FGDC Address Standard.

Cabarrus County, NC
Client since 2007

Spatial Focus performed an evaluation of existing addressing practices and data, and is now assisting the County in implementing a Master Address Repository, and in comply with LUCA requirements.

Cobb County, GA
Client since 2007

Cobb County retained Spatial Focus to provide a Strategic Plan for the development of a Master Address Repository that could serve all of the County's departments, and maintain high-quality, up-to-date geographic and tabular address information.
Spatial Focus is now completing a Master Address Repository for Cobb County that will provide address data and address points for all parcels and structures in the County.

Park County, CO
Client since 2006

Spatial Focus assisted Park County in creating a Master Address Repository. There are significant road renaming and addressing issues in the County.

Registrar of Voters, Madison County, AL
Client since 2006

Spatial Focus was retained to create digital maps of all electoral geography, including municipal and other tax district boundaries, and precincts. Based on this geography, the voter registration lists were reviewed and quality controlled to insure that all voters are voting appropriately.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Authority
Client since 2006

Spatial Focus assisted the airport with addressing all of the buildings and areas within the airport boundaries. The first phase included all ground level facilities (including runways, taxiways, aprons and ramps). A second phase will include all levels, including above and below ground facilities.

Weymouth, MA
Client since 2006

Spatial Focus is evaluating existing addressing and developing a strategic plan for improvements and development of a master address repository.

The World Bank, Washington, DC
Client since 2005

Spatial Focus staff participated in a mission to appraise the potential for a multi-sectoral project designed to reduce the environmental impacts of tourism on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Our role was to evaluate existing maps and determine the suitability of geographic data for supporting the project.

Wake County, NC
Client since 2005

Spatial Focus performed photogrammetric quality control services for new digital color and black and white orthophotos. Spatial Focus also assisted the County in developing the specifications and requirements for the orthophoto project.

The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Client since 2005

Spatial Focus staff assisted provincial and local government staff in the province of Banda Aceh, Indonesia in restoring geographic data and base mapping for the province following the 2004 tsunami.

Boulder County, CO
Client since 2005

Spatial Focus assisted Boulder County in developing a Master Address Repository. Assistance included database design, workflow process evaluation and restructuring, evaluation of spatial and tabular address and centerline data

Glades County, FL
Client since 2004

Spatial Focus conducted an address audit for Glades County to determine if countywide readdressing was needed. Our evaluation indicated that there were some areas with problems, but that most of the County's addressing was in good order.

City of Atlanta
Client since 2003

Spatial Focus assisted the City in quality control of new address data and review of fire and other emergency service districts.

Florence County, SC
Client since 2003

Spatial Focus developed a comprehensive GIS program for Florence County, including preparation of a needs analysis, definition of the system, database design, development of a data conversion plan and specifications, and quality control assistance.

Alamance County NC
Client since 2003

Spatial Focus assisted the County in developing a strategic plan for addressing, and address data quality improvement.

Robeson County, NC
Client since 2003

Spatial Focus performed quality control services for cadastral mapping, an audit of existing GIS activity in the County, and a Strategic Plan for Implementation of County-wide GIS.,

Washington, D.C.
Client since 2002

Spatial Focus assisted the Office of the Chief Technology Officer with the implementation of the addressing plan, including preparation of specifications for final database design, data acquisition and quality control. Spatial Focus managed the project and consultants on behalf of OCTO.

City of Cambridge, MA TPMC
Client since 2002

Spatial Focus worked with TPMC on the development of a Master Address Implementation Plan for the City of Cambridge GIS. The work program includes a detailed inventory of existing addresses in use in Cambridge, development of standards and a data model, and a comprehensive task based implementation plan and budget.

Municipality of Anchorage, AK
Client since 2002

Spatial Focus assisted the Municipality in developing a strategic plan for the improvement of address information for E-911 and other agencies.

Tiburon, Inc,Fond-du-Lac County, WI
Client since 2002

Spatial Focus created address ranges for the County based on two centerline files and a set of address points. These ranges were for use in the County's new E-911 Computer Aided Dispatching System.

Georgia Deparment of Transportation
Client since 2001

Spatial Focus assisted with the documentation of GIS applications within the Planning Division.

Ministry of Lands, Housing, Physical Planning and Surveys,
Republic of Malawi
Client since 2001

Spatial Focus was retained to work with an existing plan for converting the Deeds Registry to a title registration system, and for automating the registry and the cadastral mapping process. This project, funded by DANIDA (Danish Government international development assistance program), had a goal of significantly reducing the length of time and cost for citizens to register land rights and titles.

Gaston County, NC
Client since 2000

Spatial Focus is providing quality control services for Gaston County's cadastral and planimetric mapping program, and is also designing the GIS database for the County. The quality control program is designed to deliver real-time information to the County and the mapping vendor on the status of all map files through an on-line browser interface.

City of Gainesville, GA Hall County
Client since 1999

Spatial Focus developed a GIS Implementation Plan for Hall County and the City of Gainesville. Spatial Focus continued working with Hall County and the City of Gainesville to specify hardware and software, develop specifications for orthophotography, planimetric, topographic and cadastral mapping, designed a comprehensive geospatial database, and assisted in quality control processes for the orthophotography, plan-topo and cadastral mapping programs.

Office of the Chief Technology Officer, City of Washington, DC
(with Michael Baker Jr., Corp.)
Client since 2001

Spatial Focus developed a Strategic Implementation Plan for Addressing for the District of Columbia. Working with 15 major agencies of the DC Government, a Master Street Name List was prepared, and data standards and models completed. The Plan addresses organizational and institutional issues, maintenance of addresses, versioning and metadata, and linkages between existing address databases and the Master Address Database. In a phased approach, Washington is implementing a fully three-dimensional addressing system, providing for rapid and cost effective deployment of emergency and non-emergency governmental services. The first phase is currently operational.

GIS Program, Fairfax County, VA
(with Michael Baker Jr., Corp.)
Client since 2000

Spatial Focus developed a Strategic Implementation Plan for Addressing for the Fairfax County. Spatial Focus interviewed address users and creators, and developed an addressing model and Strategic Plan for Fairfax County's addressing. The plan provides for linkages between the County's agencies with the GIS maps, and will allow GIS users access to address and other data on an enterprise-wide scale.

Cumberland County, NC
Client since 2001

Spatial Focus performed quality control of new digital color ortho photography for Cumberland County.

Electric Department
City of North Little Rock, AR

Client since 1999

Spatial Focus worked with the North Little Rock Electric Department to identify specific tasks required to integrate GIS into real-time monitoring and operating applications for electric services to the City. Spatial Focus has also assisted the City in conversion of existing CAD data to the regional GIS, and in database development.

Department of Environmental Services
City of Delray Beach, FL

Client since 2001

Using an interactive website, Spatial Focus developed a Master Plan for the development of GIS capabilities in the City of Delray Beach. Existing applications and software are being unified to provide inter-agency sharing of geospatial data and linkages to maps developed by the City for management of its infrastructure. Spatial Focus conducted a geoaudit of the City's addresses.

Metropolitan YMCA of Birmingham, AL

Client since 1999

Spatial Focus developed a system to track members and program customers of the YMCA by location throughout the Birmingham Y's service area. Using free and off-the-shelf components, Spatial Focus developed a system to structure existing membership and customer records from a proprietary system into a spatial database. The system permits the Y to query its data to determine the geographic locations of various categories of customers and members, including age, type of programs attended, YMCA branch utilized, and to analyze this data against census data to determine market penetration statistics.

GIS Division
City of Birmingham, AL

Client since 1999

Spatial Focus assisted the City of Birmingham in extracting, cleaning, standardizing, and parsing data from its obsolete building permit management system for loading into a new permit management system. Approximately 200,000 records were processed. Additionally a data field mapping task identified all components of information in the old system, and linked them to the appropriate field in the new system, to facilitate loading of the data into the new system.

Savannah Area Geographic Information System, GA

Client since 1999

Spatial Focus worked with the SAGIS consortium, which includes the City of Savannah, Chatham and Effingham Counties, and Southern Company/ Savannah Electric Company in the development of a Master Addressing Implementation Plan. The process included workshops and interviews with SAGIS staff and identification of goals, objectives, and an overall budget for the implementation program.