HC OHSEM Geospatial Roadmap
A business-oriented plan to define how Harris County OHSEM will utilize GIS and spatial solutions to achieve its goals and desired outcomes
A business-oriented plan to define how Harris County OHSEM will utilize GIS and spatial solutions to achieve its goals and desired outcomes
A set of core principles guided the geospatial roadmap process to ensure the roadmap was actionable, flexible, and consumable.
Inclusive: The strategy incoporates input from a cross-section of the oganization's stakeholders
Value-focused: The strategy prioritizes opportunities that deliver material benefits to the overall organization
Best Practices: The strategy prioritizes industy best practices alongside emerging trends
Collaborative: The strategy was developed and validated via collaboration with department and agency stakeholders
The interests of any Emergency Operations Center (EOC) are inherently geographic in nature. Without consideration for location, an EOC cannot effectively manage its assets or deliver services to the public. Through robust geospatial solutions, an EOC empowers itself with location intelligence.
Location Intelligence
Location intelligence is the ability to derive insights from geographic information. There is increasing recognition of the value that location intelligence provides in support of public service delivery.
HC OHSEM is an inclusive and collaborative community that supports one another and is able, given staffing and funding challenges. The GIS community within HC OHSEM is small but mighty and has had numerous successes, even in the most challenging of circumstances. Looking forward, HC OHSEM strives to become a place where innovation and insights are derived from location information is available throughout the departments and agencies, which will come from increased awareness and continuing to enable staff.
The Strategic Roadmap will guide the GIS work of HC OHSEM as it grows and responds to the evolving needs of residents and stakeholders. Over the next two to three years, the roadmap will point toward maintaining and improving the qualities that make Harris County OHSEM outstanding. The plan articulates areas of strategic focus which will target the County’s efforts and resources in ways intended to have the greatest impact in the key focus areas over the life of the plan.
Build and maintain a modern Request for Information (RFI) Workflow to consolidate, track, and promote GIS requests during "Grey Sky" events following established best practices.
Increase access to and understanding of geospatial capabilities to promote self-service, collaboration, and decision support.
Enable access to a collection of authoritative data for relevant maps, apps, and other geospatial assets across divisions.
Ensure that decision makers, partnering organizations, and the public are aware of the services and data available.
Become a leader in harnessing innovative location-intelligence technology and integrating with new and existing systems to support organization-wide objectives.
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