2006 Panda Consulting News & Notices
December 2006 - Wakulla County Parcel Mapping Project
Panda Consulting has completed all parcel creation for the Wakulla County Property Appraiser's office and has entered into a bridge contract to provide workflow development and parcel maintenance training for Wakulla County staff. The conversion project consisted of approximately 23,000 parcels together with geodatabase design, project management and interim knowledge transfer to WCPA staff.
May 2006 - Miami Dade GIS Training
Miami Dade has contracted with Panda Consulting to provide customized training for several department departments with the Miami Dade government. The training shall include simle and advanced editing, COGO implementation, georeferencing Cad files and scans and workflow development. All training shall be conducted on-site and custom training materials shall be provided.
March 2006 - SWFWMD ERP Geodatabase Design Project
Southwest Florida Water Management District has contracted with Panda Consulting to provide user needs analysis and geodatabase design services for its Environmental Resource Permitting Division. The user needs analysis consists of reviewing existing documentation, databases, tables, processes, and procedures associated with the project. In addition, interviews with SWFWMD staff assigned to the project shall be conducted to determine existing and future needs. This information shall be compiled into a preliminary report documenting the findings that shall be used to develop a conceptual geodatabase diagram. The conceptual design shall identify thematic layers, relationships, methods and properties of the data. The second pahse of the project shall consist of converting the conceptual design into a logical geodatabase design for the project and conducting a review workshop with SWFWMD staff to determine suitability of the design for the project. The logical design shall develop feature representation, attribution and symbology, together with requisite relationship classes, domains, subtypes and rules. Modifications to the design shall be incorporated into the final physical geodatabase design with a final review workshop conducted at SWFWMD site to allow additional revisions to the database. The physical design shall include the creation of a geodatabase schema and conversion and loading of existing spatial data into the geodatabase and development of policies and procedures implementing the new structure. Finally, spatial editing workflow and training shall be provided at at SWFWMD's site.
February 2006 - Jasper County Parcel Maintenance Contract
Panda Consulting continues providing parcel maintenance services for the Jasper County Property Assessor Office in Jasper County, South Carolina. These services include monthly updates to their cadastral layer and periodic support services including on-site visits and training in the use of ESRI's GIS software for mapping and assessing purposes. The Property Assessor has recognized the benefit and efficiency of using Panda Consulting as its "virtual" GIS department.
