Web GIS for a statewide noxious weed program
A long-running partnership with the Plant Industry Division. Field crews record infestations and treatments, the division sees the whole state, and every county gets its own view without buying desktop GIS seats.
The problem
Noxious weed management is a statewide obligation carried out county by county. The state needs a consistent picture of what is infested and what has been treated. The counties need to record work in the field without each buying and maintaining desktop GIS software. Those two needs pull in opposite directions, and the usual result is a patchwork of spreadsheets that never quite reconcile.
What we built
A web-based GIS solution for the noxious weed program: one system where infestations and treatments are recorded, the division sees the whole state, and each county works with its own data through a browser.
This is not a project that shipped and ended. It has been maintained and extended as the program's needs changed, which is the only way a system that field crews depend on stays worth depending on.
How it works
One record, many views
Field observations and treatment records live in a single structured database, so the county view, the statewide view, and the reporting view are all reading the same rows rather than reconciling copies.
No license per user
Access is through the browser. Adding a county or a seasonal crew does not mean buying and installing GIS software for them.
Built for the report
The data model was designed with the annual reporting obligation in mind, not bolted on afterward, so pulling the numbers is a query rather than a project.
What it changed
The division can see the state. Counties can record work without a software budget. And the program has a continuous record rather than a series of annual snapshots that do not line up.
Tell us what the ground looks like.
A few sentences about the program, the data you already have, and the deadline you are working against is enough to start. You will hear back from the person who would do the work.
- Phone208.569.1371
- Emailinfo@getmia.net
- OfficesPocatello, Idaho & Ogden, Utah
A real reply, not a ticket number
Usually within one business day, from the person who would build it.
A short call about the data
What exists, where it lives, and who has to use the result.
Scope and a fixed number
Written scope with the cuts called out, so the budget decision is yours.