Quarterly Newsletter
March 2025
We're excited to share MapGeo news with you!
This quarter's MapGeo Community Spotlight – City of Gloucester, MA!
Gloucester’s Magnolia neighborhood was named for the unique Sweetbay Magnolia plants discovered there in 1806.
With more than 62 miles of gorgeous coastline, Gloucester, Massachusetts, the largest city on Cape Ann, is a city rich in traditions and maritime heritage that is still the largest fishing port in Massachusetts. Known as America's oldest seaport, once many residents call Gloucester home, leaving feels like they left a piece of themselves behind. It is also one of the best places in the world for whale watching and has an up-and-coming nightlife scene including "one of the 22 best Pizza places in the United States" by the New York Times and The Cut, a musician's haven and new beloved tour stop of many artists.
Perhaps one of the reasons why local hotspots have gravitated to Gloucester is that the city has taken significant strides in modernizing its infrastructure, particularly in managing its public utilities. Gloucester has invested in mapping its water and sewer systems, improving efficiency and ensuring better service for businesses and residents.
The AppGeo Division of Sanborn started working with the City of Gloucester back in 2011 to design, develop, and launch a custom web application, which is now known as MapGeo. Since then, Sanborn has been managing and maintaining the City’s data from parcels to zoning to a fully built utility network of assets throughout the city for sewer, drainage, and potable water.
Most recently, the AppGeo Division helped the city implement Esri’s Lead Service Line Solution, allowing for better tracking and management of water service infrastructure. This Solution will empower DPW staff to better track, remove, and replace lead service lines as well as provide an accurate up-to-date service line inventory which is a requirement of the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements. The ongoing collaboration between Gloucester and the AppGeo Division of Sanborn ensures the city's water network is accurately mapped, improving asset management and data-driven decision-making for critical infrastructure.
If your community needs support with meeting the requirements of the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, please reach out!
MapGeo Return on Investment (ROI) Reports
As many of you know, MapGeo web statistics reports are generated and sent out on the first of each month. These reports show how many visits, clicks, and so much more about user interaction that your MapGeo site received within a month. The MapGeo team has been working on an enhancement to provide a more detailed report that translates how those web stats provide benefit to your organization in the form of a Return on Investment (ROI) report. Here is a sneak peek at what these reports will look like:
We made some general assumptions about the amount of time saved for both municipal staff and constituents for each visit to the site based on the effort and time it would take to accomplish the same type of task by visiting the municipal office. An example of this would be to obtain an abutters list for a property. With this are general assumptions of cost saving per hour for both staff and constituents to be able to equate the time savings into dollars saved. The gas and carbon savings are based off US averages for vehicle MPG and CO2 per gallon of gas used with the average miles per visit saved set at a round trip of 10 miles per trip.
Now is your chance to provide your feedback on these reports while we are still finalizing the content. We want to make these reports to be meaningful and useful to your municipality when requesting funding for GIS.
Our goal is to send these out twice a year, in January and July to try to align with budget seasons to help you be the champion for GIS in your community.
Check out the latest Spatial IQ for MapGeo Annual Overlay – Alternative Fuel Stations
If you are a Spatial IQ customer on the Building tier or above, you will see the latest annual overlay on your site, Alternative Fuel Stations. Pulling from Esri’s Living Atlas, we are showing the location of alternative fueling options from Electricity to Hydrogen to Natural Gas.
Alternative Fue Station theme in Cumberland, RI with a pop-up configured to show additional details about the station location.
If you aren’t a Spatial IQ customer but would like this overlay, please reach out to the MapGeo support team for a quote to get this data added to your site!
Spatial IQ Webinar
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and automate repeatable tasks? Join us Thursday, March 20th @ 1:00 PM EST for an exclusive webinar on How Custom Scripts Can Streamline Everyday Tasks. In this webinar we will share how to Automate repetitive tasks to save time and reduce errors, create custom scripts tailored to your specific needs, and enhance productivity by integrating scripts into your daily workflows.
Our expert speaker, Sanborn's Data Scientist Ashley Tardif, will guide you through real world client examples of scripts that we developed to improve the efficiency of a workflow, such as creating master address tables, permitting software integrations, etc.
In case you have missed any of our past webinars, you can find the recordings on our website: https://sanborn.com/spatial-iq-series/
Imagery Subscription Options through Sanborn
Does your organization need imagery? From aerial imagery to true orthos and to obliques, Sanborn has you covered. Sanborn offers custom-collected and historic imagery in addition to Hexagon and Vexcel imagery catalogs. This data can be streamed to your MapGeo site for seamless access to multiple vintages and types of imagery. Contact your Sanborn regional representative today to learn more.
MapGeo Enhancements Support
Sanborn is adding a new service option to the MapGeo subscription, MapGeo Enhancement Support! Are you an active community that continuously develops new GIS data or wants to keep growing your MapGeo? Take advantage of our new offer of a bucket of hours for the MapGeo support team to make new configurations, themes, and much more for your site throughout the year.
Sincerely,
Have you checked out our MapGeo Support Portal? Head to the portal for tips, tricks, and ideas on ways to expand your MapGeo and Spatial IQ.
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