Part I - GIS in KC WTD

Part 2 - Various Tools 

Part 3 - GIS + Vertical Industry (Technology Trend)

GIS in WTD

• Data collection (GPS)

• Database Development/Maintenance

• Cartographic Production (paper/web): Data Visualization.

• Program and Project Support

• Spatial Analysis Developement

Combined Sewer Overflow

CSO = Stormwater (90%) + Sewer (10%) 

1881 New York - 2.5 million pounds of horse manure  per day

(not too) long time ago.... galaxy far away

Joseph Bazalgette

Modern Sewer Conveyance System

Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)

Stormwater (90%) + Sewer (10%) = CSO

NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits

Why CSO Status Viewer?

Regulatory Requirement

• Non-Interactive
• Not Enough Information
• Can Not Zoom
• Hard to update Basemap

Meets the Purpose BUT ....

Assembling Pieces

• Python
• GitHub
• geoJSON
• Leaftlet JS
• Javascript
• HTML

GitHub site

Old

Current

gh-page + Leaflet.js

Finished for now....

Part 2 - Tools

CUGOS

Cascadia 

Users

of 

Geospatial

Open 

Source

(Community)

www.cugos.org

Part 3 - GIS + Vertical Industry

Future of GIS

GPT

General Purpose Technology

The Second Machine Age - Erk Brynjoflsson, Andrew McAfee

GPT

"GPT always needs complements"

"GPT always needs complements"

Urban Planning

You

Utilities

You

Social Justice/Equity

You

Environmental

Science

You

GIS 

Don Cooke, early digital mapping pioneer and founder of GDT about the explosion in mapping technology. His comment: “After 20 years, it’s nice to be an overnight sensation”.​​

Companies are using maps not just as nice features but to drive revenue as core components of their offering. Maps are no longer just a good way to visualize content, they are core to competitive advantage.

Companies are thinking more creatively about how to combine location with outside content and internal business data to differentiate products

• Mapbox
• Deck.gl

Public Science

For Next Time....