Addressing Services

City of Raleigh, NC, Addressing Project

Spatial Focus assisted the City of Raleigh in a review of existing address practices and workflows, and developed a Strategic Implementation Plan for Addressing and an Addressing Manual. For more information, click here.

City of Virginia Beach, VA

Spatial Focus was retained by the City of Virginia Beach to provide consulting on the current state of addresses, and integration of address information into new permit-tracking and work flow management software. For more information, please click here.

Park County, CO

Spatial Focus worked with Park County to develop address points and a Master Address Repository. Much renaming of streets and readdressing was needed to improve public safety. For more information, please click here.

Boulder County, CO

Spatial Focus worked with Boulder County to evaluate existing address data, and to design a Master Address Repository. For more information, please click here.

Cobb County, GA

Spatial Focus developed a Strategic Plan for Address Repository implementation for Cobb County, and then worked with the County to implement the plan. For more information, click here.

Cabarrus County, NC

Spatial Focus developed a Strategic Implementation Plan for Address Repository Implementation, and was retained by the County to create the repository. For more information, click here>

Madison County, AL

Voter Location and Address Improvement Project: Spatial Focus was retained by the Elections Office of Madison County to improve voter address records and provide mapped locations for them. For more information, click here.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Airport addressing scheme development for taxiways, roadways, peripheral buildings and main terminal area. For more information, click here.

Town of Weymouth, MA

Spatial Focus developed a Strategic Plan for Address Management for the Town of Weymouth. For more information, click here.

St. Louis County, MN

Spatial Focus was retained to develop a Strategic Implementation for a Master Address Repository and Address Point Development in GIS. For more information, please click here.

Northrop Grumman for City of Atlanta Fire Department

Spatial Focus assisted the City of Atlanta through Northrop Grumman in conducting quality assurance on address data provided by other vendors. For more information click here

City of Bellevue, WA

Spatial Focus performed a Needs Analysis for Improvements to Land Information System, and provided a database design to improve information handling between departments. For more information click here.

Glades County Sheriff's Office, FL

Spatial Focus reviewed existing addressing and address data for Glades County, and provided a strategic plan for the development of a Master Address Repository, and for improving addressing practices, and correcting some incorrect addresses throughout the County. For more information click here

City of Cambridge, MA

Spatial Focus prepared a Strategic Implementation Plan for a Master Address Repository, and assisted the City in the creation of the database structures and developed a methodology for validation and verification, including field work, for all addresses. For more information click here

Office of the Chief Technology Officer, City of Washington, DC

Spatial Focus developed a Strategic Implementation Plan for Addressing for the District of Columbia. In a phased approach, Washington implemented a fully three-dimensional addressing system, providing for rapid and cost effective deployment of emergency and non-emergency governmental services. Spatial Focus was also the project management consultant for the implementation of the Master Address Repository. For more information click here

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

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. For more information click here

Metropolitan YMCA of Birmingham, AL

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. For more information click here

GIS Division, City of Birmingham, AL

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. For more information click here

Savannah Area Geographic Information System, GA

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. For more information click here

Alamance County, NC

Spatial Focus conducted an address audit for Alamance County to determine the completeness of existing addressing data, and to provide a strategic plan for development of a Master Address Repository. For more information click here

Municipality of Anchorage, AK

Spatial Focus provided a review of existing address data and address data systems for the Municipality. A strategic plan for the development of a more comprehensive repository and re-engineering business processes was also provided. For more information click here

Quality Assurance Services

City of Raleigh, NC Orthophotography, Planimetrics, and Topography Quality Assurance

Spatial Focus is working with the City of Raleigh on a multi-year contract to provide quality control services for yearly updates of orthophotography, planimetrics, and topography for the City's GIS. For more information, click here.

Wake County, NC

Spatial Focus provided assistance and quality control services for color digital orthophotography for Wake County. For more information click here

Gaston County, NC

Spatial Focus provided quality control services for Gaston County's cadastral and planimetric mapping program, and designed the GIS database for the County. The quality control program was designed to deliver real-time information to the County and the mapping vendor on map file status through an on-line browser interface. For more information click here

Cumberland County, NC

Spatial Focus performed quality control of new digital color ortho photography for Cumberland County. For more information click here

GIS Consulting and Implementation Projects

Robeson County, NC

Spatial Focus prepared a Strategic Plan for GIS Implementation, designed the GIS database, and provided quality control services for cadastral map conversion for the County. For more information click here

Florence County, SC

Spatial Focus prepared a Strategic Plan for GIS Implementation, developed a database design, overall IT Strategic Plan, and designed a methodology for capturing land use from the new digital orthophotography and cadastral maps. Spatial Focus is also managed the cadastral mapping program and provided quality control for the cadastral maps. Spatial Focus is also prepared the Master Address Repository, and conducted an in-depth geoaudit for Florence County. For more information click here.

Electric Department, City of North Little Rock, AR

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. For more information click here

Department of Environmental Services, City of Delray Beach, FL

Using an online interface,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. For more information click here

Georgia Department of Transportation

Spatial Focus was retained by the Georgia DOT to document and develop quality assurance processes for transportation and address data. For more information, click here.

Hall County and the City of Gainesville, GA

Spatial Focus developed a GIS Implementation Plan for Hall County and the City of Gainesville. Spatial Focus has continued working with Hall County and the City of Gainesville to specify hardware and software, develop specifications for ortho photography, planimetric, topographic and cadastral mapping, designed a comprehensive geospatial database, and provided quality control processes for the ortho photography, plan-topo and cadastral mapping programs. For more information click here

International Projects

Ministry of Lands, Housing, Physical Planning and Surveys, Republic of Malawi

Spatial Focus performed an automation study for the Land Title Registry, including the modernization and automation of district, regional and national registration processes and work flows. For more information click here

Urban Institute Municipal Project in Serbia

Spatial Focus assisted the Municipal Project in Serbia by evaluating base maps and GIS technologies for use in mid-size cities for managing public land inventories. For more information, please click here.

Urban Institute Indonesia

Spatial Focus was retained by the Urban Institute to provide technical GIS assistance to the Province of Aceh, Indonesia in restoration of base maps and other GIS data following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. For more information, please click here.

World Bank: Ecuador

Spatial Focus was retained by the World Bank to be part of an appraisal mission for a project focused on eco-tourism and improved management of coastal and island resources in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. For more information, please click here.

World Bank: Peru

Spatial Focus was retained by the World Bank to be part of an appraisal mission for a project focused on the development of addressing systems within the Cuzco Region and the Sacred Valley of the Vilcanota/Urubamba near Machu Picchu. For more information, please click here.