6/13/2006 CABLE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Minutes

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1s great, but now it's time.to move forward from just maintairun a CAIS forlannm* and assessing purposes. The torn needs to start to thinly about mobilizing the GIS for number of departments including Police, Fire and DPW among others. Mobile solutions aro the current focus of the GIS community and some great applications exist. However, to fully realise the benefits of these applications in the future; the town will need to build- its cache of digital spatial data that will he required by these applications. One of the first steps in building this data is raster ing(scanning) a series of maps including building blueprints, Subdivision plans,historical maps, street layouts...etc. These maps, when rasteri ed, can be linked directly to the GIS and made available on a mobile system at the click of a mouse or in this ease a laptop touch pad.) Mobile GIS is only one reason to start scanning hard copy, large foh at maps and plans. Below is a list of bullet points that highli ht this and other benefits of havinga large format seer: Mobile GIS for Emergency Services— Scanning large format maps is a vital component to the development.of a useful Mobile GIS solution,as it would allow the emergency services persormel to see building diagrams and other maps as raster images, dynamically limed to the GIS and made.available on a laptop in their vehicle. • Digital Archiving---If thetoa had.a scanner, we could begin the process of digitally archiving all of the town's maps, including approved subdivision maps, historical maps, building layouts and other documents currently on a sheet greater in size than 11 x 1 . As of now, there is no chance of recovery of the toga's paper maps in the event of a catastrophic evert, i.e. fire. "'Heads-Up Digitizing"_This process allows the user to agister a scanned image g of a map to the existing GIS and simply trace the spatial information needed into vector layers for inclusion into the ton's existing GIS layers, this process is much faster and more accurate with today's scanr n.g capabilities.than with old digitizer technology. C. Options J have included a couple of quotes given her scanner dealers across the country. These are firm quotes and the town is ready to make a purchase, provided you are willing to subsidize the difference between the amount of money the planning department carp supply and the final cost. I will outline suggested payment options in section D. I Graphtec IS ZooBase/Pro Monochrome Scanners Notes. New, U gradea le, b1w The 1S 200 scanners are brand new monochrome Graphtec models that feature high speed scanning at high resolution. The Base.n-odel moves your drawings along at 5.4 ips @ 400 dpi, while the pro scans at gips@a 400 dpi. Both have a 42" scan area Haat can talo a 431t wide sheet. Both boast a 600 true optical dpi, but the pro model can do up to 4800 max, 2