Digital Map Products Best Practice Whitepapers and Videos for Government

Digital Map Products' Government Best Practices

Browse through the best practice information below to see Digital Map Products' technology in action and learn more about the cutting edge trends of spatial technology. Best practice information includes: best practice videos and best practice articles about how to leverage mapping and GIS technologies to enhance organizational efficiency and augment decision making.

Webinar Recordings

	Map Your Way to Citizen Engagement Success In this Digital Map Products webinar, you'll learn the many ways maps amplify public outreach initiatives, what citizens want from their mapping experience, how to select the right technology, and tips for creating maps the public will love.
	Talk to Me: Using Online Maps to Engage Citizens in the Google Era View this informational webinar to learn how residents’ information expectations have changed in the Google Era, popular technologies for communicating with residents, examples of successful public online maps, and more.
	Welcome to the Cloud GIS Era: How Cloud Computing's Changing GIS for Government If you're interested in learning about the latest developments with Cloud GIS, hearing real life examples of how municipalities are embracing and succeeding with this transformative technology and gaining valuable tips for getting started, then "Welcome to the Cloud GIS Era" is the webinar for you.
	The New Rules for GIS Success Cloud computing has come on the scene in a big way and can help alleviate organizations’ GIS, budget and technology adoption difficulties. By watching this webinar you'll learn best practices and tips for how your organization can succeed with Cloud GIS.
	The Cloud Revolution: What's Next for Cloud GIS & How Cities Benefit In the past year cloud computing has revolutionized how local government implements and uses technology. GIS has especially benefited. Watch this webinar to learn how your city can capitalize on this transformative technology.
	Information Rules: Communicating with City Residents in the Google Era This webinar discusses tips and tools to improve communication with residents while increasing the efficiency of your city. You'll also learn the new rules for information in the Google Era and best practices for publishing city information to your site.

Best Practice Videos

	GIS in the Cloud Video Series In the following three videos Digital Map Products' Director of Marketing Annie Schwab and Product Manager Skip Cody discuss why the cloud and GIS are the perfect match, how GIS is changing as a result of its migration to the cloud and how to leverage the cloud for GIS sucess.
	Best Practices to Keep Zoning Data Current & Accurate This video shows how by using the latest easy-to-use GIS technology local municipalities can keep their zoning maps more current and accurate. In only a few steps and with no prior GIS expertise, cities can update parcel zoning and generate a new map.

Best Practice Podcasts

Advancements in Spatial Technology
This podcast features Digital Map Products' Jim Skurzynski discussing how exciting advancements are helping organizations of all sizes access the benefits of spatial technology. Scalability in technology is leveling the playing field.

Best Practice Articles

	Leveraging Technology to Streamline Local Government Services This whitepaper highlights the many benefits of accessing GIS solutions in the Cloud. The convergence of cloud computing and GIS offers cities new opportunities to spatially enable their organizations for lower cost and without added burden to IT departments.
	Zoning Maps - Improving Currency & Accuracy This best practice paper explains how you can take advantage of spatial technology to better maintain your local municipality’s zoning maps and easily share them with residents.

Training Resources

	Using Data Loader in CityGIS™ This document explains how to use the Data Loader feature in CityGIS™ to load Address files, Coordinate files, and Shape files into your account. Using Data Loader you can analyze, collaborate, and present data from a spatial point of view.
	CityGIS™ Self-Paced Training Videos Click here to view the self-paced training videos for CityGIS™. These educational videos provide both product overviews and step-by-step tutorials of specific functionality.