SDR Projects

Spatial Data Research is a GIS mapping, software and consulting company specializing in integrating GPS with our mapping and GIS applications. Since incorporating in 1993, SDR has provided E9-1-1 mapping, addressing and communications services, along with custom software development and GIS consulting, to nearly 100 counties, municipalities and private sector clients.
Lincoln County, Missouri/E-911 Garland Power and Light/ Utilities Programming Global Mapping Solutions/FM Bi-State Development Agency/GPS	Johnson County, Illinois/GIS Mobile Video Services/Appraisal ESRI-CCED/Communications Consulting City of Tumcumcari/GASB Project
Mapping, Addressing, and GIS for E-911 Lincoln County, Missouri SDR completed the original mapping and addressing in 1996, using differential GPS in the field and MicroStation as the mapping platform. The County successfully maintained the system for five years using GPS to map new roads and homes and SDR's custom software to automate digital mapping and addressing. In 2001, with newer and better GIS and GPS tools availabe, SDR helped Lincoln County migrate their data into ArcView. Today, Lincoln County uses SDR's ASIA addressing and Tao GPS interface software with real time GPS to update its 9-1-1 GPS in one integrated field process. Lincoln County also uses Go2It. SDR's map location software, interfaced to the existing 9-1-1 and CAD software for immediate call mapping. SDR has completed full-service E9-1-1 projects like Lincoln County's in more than 50 U.S. counties.

Programming for Utilities and Facilities Management

Garland Power and Light
For Garland Power and Light (GPL), an electric utility company east of Dallas, SDR developed custom GIS/GPS software used to inventory and inspect their transmission and distribution network. The software runs on Psion handheld computers. After each inspection, the results are uploaded in the office to a PC database for analysis, planning and maintenance work scheduling.

Global Mapping Solutions
To map the utilities in a region larger than the State of South Carolina, SDR developed custom GIS/GPS software for the Navajo Tribal Utilities Association (NTUA). The Navaho are mapping all of their utility infrastructure, including electric, gas, and water. As GIS data is collected, another software module by SDR can be used to prepare engineering plans, generate materials lists, and estimate job costs.

Custom GPS/Data Collection Software

Bi-State Development Agency

Bi-State Development Agency operates St. Louis' network of light rail and bus transportation. As the agency began a program to update its system, SDR was contracted to build an application to collect and categorize the agency's bus stops. Bi-State employees used Trimble GPS units to capture the position of each of its 18,000 bus stops. The GPS was linked to SDR's MapObjects-based Visual Basic custom data collection interface. The bus station location shape files produced were linked with an Access database. The final data was then brought into ARC/Info for further modeling.

Digital Mapping and GIS for 911

Johnson County, Illinois

Johnson County, in southeastern Illinois, was addressed by a local vendor in the mid '90s. A detailed database was constructed, though it had no georeferencing, and no digital mapping was done. The county was able to maintain the addressing for a number of years using a DMI to calculate distances between a known address and a new one. Inspired in part by pending wireless legislation calling for wireless call mapping, Johnson County ETSB (Emergency Telephone System Board), hired SDR in 1999 to develop true GIS. SDR mapped all roads, addresses, driveways, hydrants, tower and bridge locations with real-time differential GPS superimposed on digital ortho imagery. SDR also provided custom software development to interface SDR's PSAP mapping system, Go2It, to a third-party 9-1-1 system (Emergitech) and produced full-color mapbooks for all emergency responders

Software Solutions for Planning and Appraisal

Both government agencies and the private sector are involved in appraisal mapping. As with other GIS venues, appraisal mapping relies on linking precise geographical data with descriptive information.

Mobile Video Services, Inc.
SDR also works with the nation's largest video appraisal company, Mobile Video. With imaging applications built by SDR, Mobile Video easily binds a variety of GIS data with their real-time property imaging system. This system is linked automatically via GPS to appraisal parcel codes superimposed on orthophotography. As each parcel is photographed, the digital video frame is stamped with the 9-1-1 address of the property and is automatically hot linked to the GIS.

911/GIS/Communications Consulting

ESRI/Central County Emergency Dispatch
In 2001 and 2002, SDR participated in a GIS feasibility study with ESRI for Central County Emergency Dispatch, a dispatch center in St. Louis County serving nine area fire departments in three counties. Serving as the E9-1-1 consultant, SDR helped CCED understand the mapping, GIS and spatial data needs of emergency services, and most importantly, the limitations of "over the counter" road centerline and other GIS data for the 911 user.

Custom GPS/Data Collection Software

City of Tucumcari GASB Project
GIS/GPS technologies are perfectly suited for asset inventories. SDR built Infra-Track as a response to the GASB (General Accounting Standards Board) Statem 911/GIS/Communications Consulting

ent 34 issued in 1999 which calls for an inventory and financial assessment of public works and infrastructure, such as roads, culverts, signs and more. Infra-Track allows the municipality to collect, store and manage GIS data directly from the field using a hand-held or pen tablet PC and GPS receiver. GPS positioning is tranparently integrated with the GIS data, and SDR has also linked digital imaging to the inventory process, so digital stills or videos of sign, bridge and pavement conditions can be linked to specific map coordinates.