Geographic Information Services (GIS)
Meet the Team
Information Technology -- (702) 267-4300
Located @ City Hall, 2nd Floor
The Geographic Information Services (GIS) Division in the Department of Information Technology is
responsible for guiding, coordinating and managing the operation and development of the City's
enterprise Geographic Information System. IT GIS specifically:
- Develops and supports City-wide GIS applications
- Develops and supports City-wide GIS Internet/Intranet applications
- Oversees data and system GIS standards
- Manages GIS software purchasing, installation, licensing and maintenance
- Oversees the Spatial Database
- Coordinates in-house spatial data identification, creation, procurement, maintenance and dissemination
- Supports parcel management for KIVA – linking permits with appropriate addresses and parcels
- Maintains fire response maps & associated target maps
- Obtains, maintains and disseminates base map data such as spatial data from other government agencies
- Provides GIS support and service to Departments not having their own GIS Staff
- Oversees the GIS User Group
- Reviews and coordinates with IT Project Managers on all IT projects containing spatial elements
Police -- (702) 267-4385
Located in the Emergency Services Facility, 3rd Floor
The Department of Information Technology Public Safety GIS Team is responsible for maintaining the master street names, street addresses and business address for the 9-1-1 Communication Automated Dispatch (CAD) system. The area of coverage for this is not limited to Henderson, they also maintain the data on the system for the City of Las Vegas. The City of Las Vegas Detention Marshal, Animal Control and Court Marshal also use the CAD system. The GIS Team keeps the maps on each console within the dispatch centers updated for both Henderson and City of Las Vegas. The GIS team is also responsible for keeping up to date GIS information on the Police officers laptops, Fire department laptops, Animal Control, Marshals and Parking Enforcement. There are a total of 425 laptops at this time. The team maintains the GIS data on the Reverse 9-1-1 system, that is used by Emergency Management Operations Center and many other departments within the city to do call outs in case of emergencies. The team maintains the Advanced Vehicle Location server, which is the GPS tracking system for all Police vehicles. They make maps for the detectives of crimes within the valley, crime scenes, and statistical maps.
Community Development -- (702) 267-1500Located @ City Hall, 1st Floor
GIS and Technical staff within the Community Development Department are responsible for data creation, management, integration, analysis, modeling, and spatial data sharing in order to visually portray information pertaining to development related activities. For the purpose of preserving the quality of planning and development as the City grows and ensure the reinvestment in the existing community, a few of the major projects which the departments GIS and Technical staff are regularly involved in include: Zoning, Land Use, Public Hearing Notifications, Comprehensive Plan, and the Demographic Profile. In addition, staff also generates a variety of maps and reports for various purposes, such as: Street Addresses, Vehicle Travel Distances, Slope Analysis, and Sector Analysis. The GIS and Technical staff continuously strive to provide various products in order to portray the departments development related activities and meet the priorities of the department.
Public Works -- (702) 267-3600Located @ City Hall, 1st Floor
The Public Works Engineering Department GIS team is responsible for developing and maintaining departmental and customer requested maps and exhibits. The GIS team is also responsible for the LID and T District mapping and data maintenance. The Storm Drain Atlas geodatabase has recently been developed (using ARCGIS Network Analyst) and is in full production for tracking existing storm drain features. The GIS Team has also begun work on the (FAST) conduit and traffic lighting inventory and mapping. Also responsible for the development and maintenance of the published Capital Improvement Plan Maps. At times the Public Works Department has also supported outside entities, when tasked, with historical maps. The GIS Team is in a fluid state and is constantly being tasked with supporting the mission and goals of the Public Works Engineering Department.
Utility Services -- (702) 267-2500Located @ City Hall, 2nd Floor
The GIS team in the Department of Utility Services (DUS) is primarily responsible for maintaining the GIS database of the water and wastewater infrastructure. This involves digitizing utility infrastructure (Water Pipes, Hydrants, Water Valves, Sewer Pipes, Manholes, and other major facilities and appurtenances) from new approved projects, editing existing infrastructure data based on GPS coordinates and comments from field maintenance crews. Water and Sewer atlas sheets are generated periodically from this database, and are used by DUS staff in their day to day functions. Our routine activities include data conversion and maintenance, atlas production, processing request for hydrant numbers from contractors and facility inspection memos, generating exhibits and reports to augment the quarterly discharge monitoring reports for EPA and NDEP, updating the Cartegraph asset management program with new assets, providing GPS support for field maintenance staff, and processing ad-hoc requests for maps and spatial analysis.
Other Projects we are currently working on include GIS data conversion of backlogged projects, sewer atlas improvements, enhancements to water/wastewater layers in CityView GIS application (in partnership with IT GIS staff), facilitating integration of utility billing system with GIS, atlas request tracking system (ARTS), atlas production database, enterprise Geodatabase project (in partnership with all City GIS staff) and delineating civil project boundaries (Inter-Departmental initiative).