ESRI and Trimble Announce 2009 Mobile Government Grant Recipients
Written by ESRI & Trimble
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Redlands, California—December 21, 2009—ESRI and Trimble have selected the winners of the joint ESRI and Trimble 2009 Mobile Government Grant ProgramGrants will award hardware, software, and training with a total value of $89,980 to 20 local and state government agencies in the United States.
The grants will help agencies create models that demonstrate the integration of mobile and server geographic information system (GIS) architecture to improve government processes. The winners will then provide reusable applications that can be shared among governments with similar projects. Those applications will be posted on ESRI’s ArcScripts public domain Web site in June 2010.
The ESRI and Trimble 2009 Mobile Government Grant Series recipients are the following:
Ada County, Idaho, Assessor’s Office—Appraisal Division
Bay Lake Regional Planning Commission, Wisconsin
Brigham City, Utah, GIS Department
City of Arlington, Texas, Public Works and Transportation Department
City of Auburn, Alabama, Public Works and IT Department
City of Fernandina Beach, Florida, Planning Department
City of Fullerton, California, Community Development Department
City of Hayden, Idaho, Community Development Department
City of Indianapolis, Indiana, Office of Sustainability
City of Las Vegas, Nevada, Department of Field Operations
City of Maple Grove, Minnesota, GIS Department
City of Mobile, Alabama, Urban Development Department
City of Poway, California, IT Department
City of Saginaw, Michigan, Engineering Division
City of Tucson, Arizona, Clerk’s Office
City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Environmental Division
Forsyth County, Georgia, Water and Sewer Department
State of California, Department of Transportation, District 11
Warwick Township, Pennsylvania, Planning and Zoning Department
Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Department of Parks and Land Use
With the ESRI and Trimble Mobile Government Grant Program and the public domain Web site, governments can continue to meet their objectives through the open exchange of ideas and shared resources.
About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field- and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety, and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers, and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit www.trimble.com.
About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com/news.
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