Services
Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)
Cost vs usability of off the shelf Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), or tracking systems has become an identified problem, especially when being considered for use by small organizations. A typical vehicle embedded system for tracking, would cost in the neighborhood of $1000 to $1500 including installation. Add on to that the need for a data [...]
U.S. National Grid Location Markers
Much research has already been applied to the idea of building a USNG marker system. The mechanics and related specifications for building such a system are therefore fairly straightforward, especially with respect to specifications about the look and feel of the markers. This project was intended as a means of taking these marker specifications and [...]
ARCHER
During the Republican National Convention (RNC) held in Twin Cities Metro in August and September 2008, the SharedGeo development team worked closely with the Minnesota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to put in place high speed download, conversion and WMS distribution of CAP ARCHER (Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance) imagery on an as [...]
U.S. National Grid Location Mobile Marking System
As described in detail at the MnGeo U.S. National Grid Location Marker Proposal website, an effort is underway to develop a standardized method for marking locations with U.S. National Grid (USNG) coordinates. In tandem with this marker concept, through a grant provided by the University of Minnesota, Center for Transportation Studies, Local Operational Research Assistance (OPERA) Program, SharedGeo personnel [...]
Red River Valley Flooding Response
The Red River of the North has a long history of spring flooding events, many of which have stretched for miles outside its banks. There are two prime reasons for this phenomenon. First, it is one of few major rivers in the United States that flows north into Canada. As such, during the spring melt in the upper [...]
Republican National Convention Common Operating Picture (COP)
Faced with the need to support security efforts involving multiple cities, counties, and levels of government for the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) in the Twin Cities Metro area, and with only limited access to Federal geospatial systems, members of the Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC) of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Geographic Information undertook development [...]
Online Services
Bringing the world together one piece at a time… Spatial Data Storage and Publishing Services Online storage and indexing services for spatial (map based) as well as geocoded (or geocodable) documents. Spatial Indexing Services Dataset indexing services related to the rapid lookup of spatial data. Geo data as well as digital geocoded documents can be [...]
Jabber
Jabber server for use by SharedGeo partners. This server provides public facing as well as secure and private communication and online data transfer capabilities. Instant messaging service Discussion rooms Digital data transfer Audio conferencing
Haiti Earthquake Response
In the aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake, SharedGeo was called upon to provide automated spatial indexing services for hundreds of pre-processed Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)* enabled map tile PDFs. Theses files were generated at the Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies, Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, and were continually updated during the recovery process, sometimes as [...]
