Description of OGRIP's Web Mapping Services

The OGRIP office delivers dynamic interactive maps, spatial content and spatial analysis via web applications. Agencies can integrate their data through dynamic mapping applications or directly into existing webpages. GIS is a decision support tool that integrates data from a variety of sources to be analyzed spatially and presented in the form of a map.

Web Mapping Services can be combined together or built in conjunction with the OGRIP Enterprise Geocoding Service to create a comprehensive web application to locate and display events, customers or agency assets on a map in a web browser.

Use of the Web Mapping Services also provides access to OGRIP's spatial data clearinghouse. This includes commercially licensed data for enterprise use by state agencies as well as local and federal government datasets. Among these datasets are:

• Location Based Response System (LBRS)
  
• Ohio Statewide Imagery Program (OSIP)
  
• Ohio 3D Elevation Program (3DEP)
  
• Municipal Boundaries
  
• ZIP Code Boundaries
  
• TIGER/Census Geography (tracts, block groups, blocks)
  
• and many others
  

Potential customers for this service

Any Ohio governmental entity.

Advantages

• Cost Savings –The customer will not need to procure, maintain, and support hardware and software to implement a standalone Internet mapping solution.
• Economies of scale reduce customer costs. A larger number of customers generates a larger number of Internet Mapping application that reduce the cost for all customers.
• Experienced, Knowledgeable Staff – The customer will not need to hire and retain personnel to maintain the hardware infrastructure and software environment required for Internet mapping capabilities.
  
• Consistency – Use of OGRIP's Web Mapping Services provide all agencies with access to the same base maps and data which provides consistent analysis and data collection results across all applications.
  

Current Customers

• Ohio Department of Public Safety (OIU)
  
• Ohio Department of Agriculture
  
• Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program (OGRIP)
  
• Ohio Department of Administrative Services
  
• Ohio Treasurer of State
  
• Ohio Department of Commerce
  
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources
  
• Ohio Department of Homeland Security
  
• Ohio American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA)