The Montgomery County GIS Strategic Plan

A 5 Year Guide
vision
We will change the way GIS is viewed as
a County service. We will establish and
maintain a reliable and quality focused GIS
environment—a GIS environment built upon
the collective needs to serve our community.

The Montgomery County IT Department GIS Office (MCTX-GIS) is committed to providing

quality GIS and Analytical Services to all County offices and partner organizations.
By providing these services with sound delivery strategies, the GIS Office will support
Montgomery County as we collectively advance the commitment to the community that
we serve.

We will provide
• A sound platform of GIS software and supporting infrastructure
• GIS Services uniquely directed to organizational and business processes
• Sound data analytics to maximize organizational information

We will provide these services

• To support internal offices, partners and citizens
• To build relevant solutions to business problems
• To increase productivity

We will provide these services with

• Clear guidance
• Realistic expectations
• Support to sustain them long-term

We will provide these services with the expectation of

establishing a nationally recognized strategy.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary
6–10

How to Use This Guide

12–13

Path Forward
14–27

Projects
29–42

Data
44–57

Offices
60–80

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executive summary
We (MCTX-GIS) have a path defined by the collective needs of the offices that we serve. It is now our responsibility and our goal to assure the accuracy, reliability and delivery of
Our role is to build a GIS that is relevant, innovative and timely. Our goals are the goals these data sets.
of those we serve. Each of the data currently exists in different states of reliability and acceptance. In order
Based on more than 25 interviews, we identified three key areas that MCTX-GIS should to align the data with the collective needs, we have allocated MCTX-GIS monthly tasks
focus our efforts on: to help assist in the overall acceptance for all four data sets.
• Solution Development For information on all data addressed in this Strategic Plan, please see the Data
• Data Organization Section of this guide.
• Data Dissemination
Solution development focuses our efforts in finding innovative and focused solutions for LIST OF OFFICES INTERVIEWED
the needs of all organizations. We build these with an eye on current technology and the City of Conroe Office of Emergency Management
end user in mind — GIS Professionals and citizens alike.
Community Development San Jacinto River Authority
Data organization is beyond simply structuring and rearranging storage (or data). Our
organization style connects office data into a fabric that is retrievable by a variety of tools. Constable Precincts 1–5 Sheriff’s Office
Data dissemination goes beyond simply delivering data by way of file servers or FTPs. County Clerk Tax Office
Our role is to make seemingly isolated data available across offices, mainly through the
spatial inquires that most folks subconsciously make. County Commissioner Precincts 1–4 The Woodlands Township

County Judge
INTERVIEWS & INTERVIEW RESULTS
MCTX-GIS has interviewed all County offices and partner organizations to introduce Elections
the services that we can provide, relay our commitment to providing these services in a
quality fashion, and capture the key work flows and challenges they face. Engineering

At the conclusion of the interview sessions we were able to identify 1) foundation data Environmental Health Services
2) 29 desired projects and 3) determine the effort level needed to complete the projects
Fire Marshall
that will address the issues raised during our interviews.
Foundation Data Lone Star Executive Airport
During the interview sessions the question was asked “What data is important to you?” Montgomery Central Appraisal District
As the interviews progressed revealing the appropriate GIS projects, the important data
became obvious. Montgomery County Emergency
It quickly becomes evident that Address Points, Street Centerlines, Parcels, and Communication District-911
Jurisdictional Boundaries are extremely important to the collective community and will
Montgomery County Hospital District
become the foundation of our data efforts — the Foundation Data.
The importance placed on each piece of data is illustrated in the “Data Groups Chart1”. Office of Court Administration
The result is what drives our data focus.
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executive summary
The 29 Desired Projects
DATA GROUPS CHART 1
Most Important
After several months of interviewing County agencies and partner organizations (25+
interviews) a list of potential projects was developed. Filtered down, the remaining 29
projects are deemed useful and tangible while creating direct efficiencies in the County
business process.
These remaining 29 projects are a direct product of the interview sessions. These are the
projects that the County offices want to see established.
The projects have been grouped into three categories: Phase I, Phase II and Along the
Way. Phase I projects are foundation projects that should be built prior to addressing
Phase II projects. With that stated, some Phase II projects may be started prior to
completing the Phase I projects but this is not advised.
The projects grouped within the Along the Way category can be developed at any time
along the way.
The 29 projects are identified in the Project Section of this guide.
PROJECT HOURS
450 hrs $54,000

400

350

300

250

200

Least Important
150
Address Points

(Centerlines)
Roads

Parcels (MCAD)

Plats

Characteristics
Road

Boundaries

Trails

FEMA
Floodplains

Easements

Business
Demographics/

(WS&D)
Utilities

Ground)
Water (Surface/

Land-Use Codes

Data Name
100

Total Value 65 52 63 28 15 64 18 35 22 35 18 20 32 50
Most Somewhat Less
Color Values Important =4 Important =3 Important =2 Important =1
0 hrs $0

PHASE I PHASE II ALONG THE WAY

(1,150 hrs) (2,640 hrs) (1,218 hrs)

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Effort
As stated earlier “our goals are the goals of those we serve” and these goals were extracted
during the interview sessions. The 29 projects define the path to reach our goals. The effort
level to complete and maintain the 29 projects has been provided in man hours.
For individual project hours, please see the Project Section of this guide.
10,400 hrs

2,080 Work Hours in ONE Year for

ONE Full-time Employee
9,370 hrs

10,400 Work Hours in

FIVE Years 29 Projects
5 Years

9,370 Hours Allocated to

Projects & Monthly Tasks
Over FIVE Years

The total number of man hours to complete the 29 projects is approximately 9,500 hours.
There is approximately 10,500 working hours in five years.
This 5 Year Strategic Plan is aligned to complete the 29 projects with one full-time
employee (FTE) with advanced GIS capabilities. Please note that this will require
the FTE to be fully dedicated to these 29 projects. This does not account for typical
department overhead responsibilities, infrastructure maintenance or reacting to any
other needs from the County.
Conclusion
It is the intent of the MCTX-GIS department to create a sharable GIS environment that
will make accessible all County GIS and GIS related information. The GIS environment
is not only the physical infrastructure but the community that supports County business.
It is our vision to “change the way GIS is viewed as a County service”. In order to succeed
with this vision we must listen to the collective needs and provide responsive solutions.
The 29 projects, requiring 9,500 man hours over a five year time span is estimated at a
worth of $1,140,000 or $228,000 per year (based on Industry Standard Rates).

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how to use this guide
This guide is designed to quickly and efficiently relay a vast amount of information as it
relates to the exploration and suggested strategy for the 5 Year GIS Strategic Plan. The
following are some tips that will help navigate through this guide.
Throughout this guide you will notice small icons to the left or right of the text. These DATA
indicate that a topic is being identified such as a Project or Data reference.
NAME OF DATA SET
 Projects  Analysis • Description
• Information source
• Available format
 Data   Grant Opportunity
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Each section has information ordered in a specific way. Each of the following diagrams Previous offices
gives a visual explanation of how the information is provided.

PROJECTS
OFFICES
NAME OF PROJECT
20 / 120 140hrs Total project hours NAME OF OFFICE
• Description
Advanced GIS hours • GIS Software: None/Basic/Advanced
• GIS Staff: None/Potential/Working
Standard GIS hours
Description DATA INTEREST
• Project phase (Phase I, II or Along the Way)
Description
• For specific office
Result:

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 PATH FORWARD
PATH FORWARD as presented by LJA Engineering, Inc. PHASE I PROJECTS (1,150 HRS)
The GIS Environment 250 hrs $30k
The GIS Environment is the collective need, support and knowledge base throughout
Montgomery County. The GIS environment is comprised of County offices, partner
organizations, city staff, inspectors, engineers, planners, voters, governing agencies,
elected officials, database administrators and GIS gurus alike.
It is recommended to leverage the resources within the GIS Environment to expand and 200 hrs $24k
advance the efforts of MCTX-GIS, in particular the Montgomery County GIS Committee.
The Montgomery County GIS Committee is an officially organized GIS meeting attended
by area GIS professionals.
It is recommended to expand this Committee meeting by including the active MCTX-GIS
projects and inviting the departments and supporting agencies in which the projects are 150 hrs $18k
built to serve.
It is extremely important that the Montgomery County GIS Committee meetings remain
meaningful and productive. A large amount of the GIS source data will be exchanged
through the interactions of these meetings creating a positive environment to maintain
100 hrs $12k
quality, reliable and up-to-date data.
The Projects
After several months of interviewing County agencies and partner organizations (25+
interviews) a list of potential projects was developed. Filtered down, the remaining 29
projects are deemed useful and tangible while creating direct efficiencies in the County 50 hrs $6k
business process.
These remaining 29 projects are a direct product of the interview sessions. These are the
Y-axis starts at
projects that the offices supporting County business want to see established. 0 hours for Phase I
The projects have been grouped into three categories: Phase I, Phase II and Along the
Way. Phase I projects are foundation projects that should be built prior to addressing 0 hrs
Phase II projects. With that stated, some Phase II projects may be started prior to

Parcel

Street & Address

Address Service

911 Road Filter

Boundary

Table
Address Point

Road Log

Precinct Asset

SJRA Trunk
completing the Phase I projects but this is not advised.
The projects grouped within the Along the Way category can be developed at any time Project
Name
along the way.
The following three graphs illustrate the 29 projects by category, man hours and
estimated cost.

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 PATH FORWARD

PHASE II PROJECTS (2,640 HRS) ALONG THE WAY PROJECTS (1,218 HRS)
450 hrs $54k 400 hrs $48k

400 hrs $48k 300 hrs $36k

350 hrs $42k 200 hrs $24k

300 hrs $36k 100 hrs $12k

250 hrs $30k 50 hrs $6k

Y-axis starts at
Y-axis 25 hours for Along
starts at the Way
100 hours
for Phase II
100 hrs $12k 25 hrs $3k
Road Condition

Plat

Bridge

Easement

Permitting

Inspection Form

Septic Inspection

Fire Marshall Forms

Scheduled Maintenance
Preventative &

Mobility

MCAD Inspector

Order
Precinct Work

Airport GIS

KMZ Drop

My Precinct

Mosquito Project

Ballot Day

Demographic

Tax Office

Land-Use
Project
Project Name
Name

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A description of the 29 projects can be found in the Project Section. Projects requiring
more explanation are more thoroughly addressed as follows:
PARCEL PROJECT 20 / 60 80hrs
The MCAD parcel information was the second most requested piece of data during the
interview sessions. And it’s not surprising because parcel information can relay a massive
amount of information just from its shape alone: size, connectivity, alignments, population
density and rural living, just to name a few. Then we look at the temporal characteristics
of the parcel such as ownership, land value, improvement values, type of structures and
land use, and subsequently the importance of parcel information becomes evident for all.
The product resulting from this effort is a sharable layer of parcel information. Provided
as a Web service, this data can be directly consumed by GIS staff who may be building
their own applications or consumed directly into their ArcGIS for Desktop projects.
Working under a Gentleman’s Agreement; MCAD and the MCTX-GIS department will
publish a timely and sharable GIS parcel layer. It is the intention of both MCAD and
MCTX-GIS to have monthly updates as a Non-Certified Roll layer supplemented with
two annual Certified Roll data sets.
This will provide one location for all County offices and partner organizations to acquire
current MCAD data. This simple parcel Web service will save a considerable amount of
man hours across the entire County.
STREET AND ADDRESS PROJECT 40 / 80 120hrs
All County Address and Street data is created and maintained by the Montgomery
County Emergency Communication District (MCECD 911). The MCECD 911 District
serves as the County’s authority for addressing and assigns all new addresses. The
address and street data that is produced is designed specifically for the 911 District’s
dispatch needs. The type, format and characteristic features of the data are built and
designed to be used in accordance with their dispatch parameters.
This design strategy has withdrawn several agencies from participating in a central
repository of address and street data. The 911 data simply does not meet the full need of
others. The removal of these agencies from the data cycle has reduced the opportunity to
successfully deliver Address and Street information across the County. These withdrawn
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agencies (referred to as the “Auxiliary Agencies”) included within this section are: the
Montgomery County Hospital District, The Woodlands Fire Department, The Woodlands
Township, City of Conroe and Montgomery County Elections.
This project will focus on reestablishing a direct line of communication between all
agencies that rely on this data for dispatch or offices that need this data for routing and
providing public services.
It is recommended that the Auxiliary Agencies produce the items that need to be
included in the 911 data that will help meet their requirements. It is understood through
the various Interview Sessions that the needed enhancements for the Auxiliary Agencies
can be achieved with the various GIS tooling available in the suite of ESRI software.
Once an Auxiliary Agency participates in the 911 common data, their edits, corrections
and enhancements can become part of the data improvement cycle ultimately providing
a quality GIS Street and Address base for all to consume.
ADDRESS POINT TABLE PROJECT 20 / 60 80hrs
The Address Point Table Project is an intermediate table maintained by MCTX-GIS with
trusted and reliable Unique IDs that will relate the 911 maintained address point with tasks
performed by County employees such as inspections, permits, or any other in-field visit.
It is imperative that the Street & Address Project is completed and put in place for these
efforts to be notable.
This project will allow applications, tasks and tools to be built upon a common and
trusted base of address points and technology. The permanent connection between
the address points and the tasks being performed would be accomplished through this
intermediate table.
Example: The Address Point for 501 Smith Street (provided by 911) will have a unique
ID that will relate to information obtained through inspections and permitting (a
Task Table). With a trusted unique ID, the information derived from inspections and
permitting can be cycled back to further enhance and provide analysis for future projects.
This project is a necessary precursor for all Inspection or Permit related projects like the
Fire Marshal Forms Project, the MCAD Inspector Project, or the Inspection Form Project
built for Environmental Health Services.
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BOUNDARY PROJECT 160 / 0 160hrs
Montgomery County is layered with boundaries that identify Commissioner Precincts and
boundaries that identify city limits, ETJs, constable precincts, special districts, response
zones, MUDs, improvement districts, voting districts and CCNs just to list a few. These
boundaries are important for taxing, voting, dispatching, maintenance and governing.
The Boundary Project represents dedicated hours to the collection and verification of
all Boundaries. This includes meeting times, communication, review and comparison
exercises, historical recovery, cataloging supporting documentation and establishing a
routine and process to update the MCTX-GIS boundary database as the boundaries are
changed or altered.
This effort will assure quality boundaries across the county and establish a practice to
keep these current.
MOBILITY PROJECT 160 / 40 200hrs
The Mobility Project is an analytical product based on the collection of Transportation
related issues including congestion, day time and night time population, projected
population growth corridors, potential improvements, and Bond Issue related items.
There are many pieces of information that can contribute to the realization of how one
does, and should be able to, travel through the County. The effort captured in this project
is to relay these opportunities to County leadership and help assist in transportation
related actions moving forward.
Helpful information drawn from this Strategic Plan and from the other 28 projects
include road width, road ROW, demographic and business information, easements, DMV
registrations, plats, projected water demands, and traffic to list a few.
The Road Log Project, at a minimum, should be completed prior to starting the
Mobility Project.
PLAT PROJECT 160 / 160 320hrs
The Plat Project is a major undertaking for several reasons.
Plat information is currently being used and stored at several locations and offices across
the County. The offices involved with the Plat submittal process or that use a submitted
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plat to extract data include Engineering, MCECD 911, County Clerk, MCAD and the
Woodlands Township.
In addition to sharing of responsibilities for extracting viable information from the plat
submittal process (which is to be shared with all Auxiliary Agencies such as easements,
ROW, utilities, master drainage plans, and off site easements), it is our recommendation
to establish an “as close as possible” central location of Plat information. The effort
involved to structurally organize such a solution will require full participation from
every office involved in the long chain of The Plat.
Please see the Plat Project in the Project Section for additional information.
PRECINCT ASSET PROJECT 80 / 160 240hrs
The Precinct Asset Project will deliver the tools and applications necessary for Precinct
Staff to collect their owned and maintained assets. These assets include roads, signals,
signs and drainage infrastructure.
The tools and applications built within this project would be accessible to all Precincts
for data collection purposes.
The level of information collected will dictate the level of application and GIS tooling necessary.
PRECINCT WORK ORDER PROJECT 80 / 320 400hrs
The Precinct Work Order Project is designed to assist in the management of precinct
resources.
Central to the project is a traditional work order process which, simply stated, ties in the
physical asset, the work performed at the asset, and who performed the work.
Structurally, this presents a multitude of related tables that represent assets, personnel,
and work type.
The delivered product would account for these activities as they are wrapped around
Preventative & Scheduled Maintenance reminders, County maintained active directories,
location services, assets collected in the Precinct Asset Project, described work types,
relational assets and allowable activities.
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The Weekly, Monthly & Annual Effort Engineering Task
The amount of effort needed to deliver the 29 projects within five years may seem MCTX-GIS will establish a contact procedure to acquire new information from
overwhelming. The collective 9,500 man hours alone is a full time employee who possesses the Montgomery County Engineering related to the GIS project efforts. This data may
advanced skill-set to manage, build and deliver GIS applications. include: easements, plats, drainage infrastructure, road log data and section boundaries.
With a structured list of monthly tasks, planned annual release dates for the 29 projects, MCTX-GIS will retain an Engineering database and publish the data as services to
and additional GIS staff to complete the typical tasks asked upon the MCTX-GIS group, update any running applications using that particular Engineering sourced data.
this can be accomplished.
Street and Address Task
The Weekly & Monthly Tasks Working closely with MCECD 911, MCTX-GIS will acquire a current version of MCECD
The 29 projects are essentially built upon the four Foundation Data sets: Address Points, 911 Address Point and Street Centerline data on a monthly basis. The four projects
Street Centerlines, Parcels, and Jurisdictional Boundaries. There is a steep effort level focused on providing quality address and street data (the Street and Address Project, 911
to establish these four data sets as reliable but this will be accomplished through the Road Filter Project, Address Service Project, and the Address Point Table Project — see
collective efforts of the GIS environment. Note that these datasets are maintained by the Project Section) will ultimately provide a successful address base for all applications
other organizations, mainly MCAD and MCECD 911. At a point it is MCTX-GIS’ only to consume.
responsibility to capture a current version of the data and make it available throughout The Street and Address Task is scheduled over four days due to the amount of projects
the GIS environment. that will rely on this data. The Address Point Table Project and the Address Service
The effort required to “capture and make available” has been assigned to five monthly Project both are consumed in projects related to inspections, permits, work orders, assets
tasks totaling 56 hours per month; City Data Request Task, Engineering Task, MCAD and bridges. Extra time is required to assure these services are available and running.
Task, Street and Address Task, and the Refresh Task. MCAD Task
The graph illustrates the monthly scheduled effort. MCTX-GIS will establish a process to receive monthly versions of the data that MCAD
maintains. It is agreed that MCAD will provide a non-certified version of their parcel
CALENDAR MONTH (56 Hours per Month) layer to be used within the GIS structured environment and supplement twice a year
County Engineering: Plats, Road
with a certified roll.
S M T W T F S Log, Easement, Master Drainage
911 Street & Address: Street & MCTX-GIS will retain a version of the MCAD data and publish this data as services to
Engineering
Address, group updates, Address update any running applications using that particular MCAD sourced data.
Service update City Data Request Task
911 911
Parcel MCAD Request: Parcels, Information and data that is generally maintained by a city includes city limits, ETJs,
Refresh Boundaries annexations, utilities, building foot prints, improvement or special finance districts,
MCAD
Task City Data Request: Utilities, trails, mobility, signs and signals. MCTX-GIS will establish an update procedure with
Boundaries, other each participating city to attain available information.
City

MCTX-GIS will retain a city database and publish the data as services to update any
Primary Day running applications using that particular city’s data.

Follow-up Days

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The Refresh Task
The Refresh Task is time allocated to review all running services, compare data
ANNUAL EFFORT TABLE YEAR 2
updates and refresh the communications with the departments who are using the Project Hours
delivered applications. Road Log 80
The 29 projects rely on many services such as imagery, base map, address locater and SJRA Trunk 200
topic specific services like permits and inspections. It is our recommendation that the Bridge 220
health of these services is routinely checked. Precinct Work Order 400
It is also recommended that communication between MCTX-GIS and the offices that are My Precinct 60
using the delivered applications remain open. Improvements, concerns, and acclaim can Tax Office 80
be channeled through these communications. 1040 Sub-Total Hours
+208 20% Support & Maintenance Hours
The Annual Effort
The annual effort is consumed in the active projects and monthly tasks for that + 672 Monthly Task Hours
particular year. The combined monthly tasks and the 29 projects totaling five years of 1,920 TOTAL HOURS
work has been scheduled out below based on fundamental importance to the community
and budget cycles. ANNUAL EFFORT TABLE YEAR 3
Project Hours
ANNUAL EFFORT TABLE YEAR 1 Road Condition 120
Project Hours Plat 320
Parcel 80 Easement 440
Street Address 120 Permitting 200
Address Service 50 1080 Sub-Total Hours
911 Road Filter 140 +216 20% Support & Maintenance Hours
Boundary 160 + 672 Monthly Task Hours
Address Point Table 80 1,968 TOTAL HOURS
Precinct Asset 240
Airport GIS 120
KMZ 50
Demographic 48
Land-Use 60
1148 Sub-Total Hours
+230 20% Support & Maintenance Hours
+ 672 Monthly Task Hours
2,050 TOTAL HOURS
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ANNUAL EFFORT TABLE YEAR 4
Project
Mobility
Inspection Form
Septic Inspection
Fire Marshall Forms
Mosquito Control
Ballot Day
ANNUAL EFFORT TABLE YEAR 5
Project
Preventative & Scheduled
Maintenance
MCAD Inspector
GIS Infrastructure
As we focus on the software required to support such an effort, it is good to know that the
MCTX-GIS has historically remained active within the ESRI suite of software. And as of
January 2015, MCTX-GIS has continued this strategy.
Currently licensed ESRI software is as follows:
ArcGIS for Desktop: 10.2.2
ArcGIS for Server: 10.1
ArcGIS Online
SDE Database: 10.1
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File Geodatabase (GDB) format: 10.2.2
Coupled with the routines performed in ArcGIS for Desktop, LJA recommends
Hours continuing use of ArcGIS for Server to accommodate the GIS community and support
200 the collective needs. The capabilities that ArcGIS for Server makes available out of the
200 box, plus the benefit of making data available for use within ArcGIS and the applications
160 (via REST API), is hard to emulate in any other environment.
180 It is also our recommendation and belief that there is value maintaining as many systems
240 as possible in the same or related technologies (ESRI).
160
In certain circumstances developing applications against NoSQL databases and
1140 Sub-Total Hours MongoDB specifically, may provide some additional benefits. In our experience,
+228 20% Support & Maintenance Hours document databases like MongoDB work well for less relational data or data that will not
+ 672 Monthly Task Hours often be aggregated.
2,040 TOTAL HOURS When this approach is taken additional services will need to be developed making this
data available to the web and an interface to view and update data. Depending on the
supported features and level of security, this can take some effort.
Hours
MongoDB does have some geometry support, so that’s nice, but this is nowhere near the
200
spatial analysis ArcGIS for Server can provide.
400 When managing such a wide spanning project it is our recommendation to maintain as
many systems as possible in the same or related technologies (ArcGIS for…).
600 Sub-Total Hours
+120 20% Support & Maintenance Hours Conclusion
+ 672 Monthly Task Hours It is the intent of the MCTX-GIS department to create a sharable GIS environment that
1,392 will make accessible all County GIS and GIS related information. The GIS environment
TOTAL HOURS
is not only the physical infrastructure but the community that supports County business
as described earlier.
It is our vision to “change the way GIS is viewed as a County service”.
As stated in the Executive Summary, the 29 projects requiring 9,500 man hours over a
five year time span, with an estimated worth of $1,140,000, is not a realistic feat with
only one full time MCTX-GIS employee.
The 9,500 man hours is dedicated only to the progress of the 29 projects. The actual
overhead and support effort that we know is required to support a fully responsive GIS
department has not been accounted for.
It is our recommendation to add one full time employee to the MCTX-GIS staff.
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 PROJECTS
911 ROAD FILTER PROJECT
20 / 120 140hrs
The 911 Road Filter Project is a set of GIS Tools delivered through
ArcGIS Desktop with ADVANCED filtering capabilities to help
isolate roads of concern. The tooling will be directed towards
filtering roads based on changed attributes, modification dates,
versions and notifications of possible erroneous data.
These tools will help in the efficiencies of moving towards a
holistically accepted address and street data set.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for Montgomery County Emergency Communications District - 911
Result: A tool to help 911 filter roads based on edited data and or date.

ADDRESS POINT TABLE PROJECT

20 / 60 80hrs
The Address Point Table Project is an intermediate table maintained
by MCTX-GIS with trusted and reliable unique IDs that will relate
the 911 created address point with tasks performed by County
employees such as inspections, permits or any other in-field visit.
Example: The address point for 501 Smith Street (provided by
911) will have a unique ID that will relate to information obtained
through inspections and permitting (a task table). With a trusted
unique ID, the information derived from inspections and permitting
can be cycled back to further enhance the address data.
This project is a necessary precursor for all inspection or permit
related projects like the Fire Marshal Forms Project, the MCAD
Inspector Project, or the Inspection Form Project built for
Environmental Health Services.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for County Departments within Engineering, Environmental
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Result: A centrally located and accessible table to relate address points
from 911 to other County offices.
ADDRESS SERVICE PROJECT
10 / 40 50hrs
The Address Service Project is an Address Locater Web Service built
upon qualified 911 data. The Address Locater will be made available
to all County offices and Partner Organizations. The Service can
be installed into custom applications or used as a standalone tool
within the ESRI suite of software.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for Everyone
Result: A centrally located and accessible web service built upon the
collective 911 address and street data.
AIRPORT GIS PROJECT
40 / 80 120hrs
The Airport GIS Project is a group of tools assisting the Lone
Star Executive Airport in the management and operation of their
aviation facilities. Targeted tools include an eALP (electronic airport
layout plan), lighting and utility inventory, a lightweight work order
system, and drainage patterns.
Hard copy or scanned construction plans provide a large majority of the
required information. The Airport occupies a small amount of acreage
and the infrastructure needed to support their operations is minimal.
The effort required to provide the Airport a GIS would be minimal.
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for the Lone Star Executive Airport
Result: An ALP and Work Order System.
BALLOT DAY PROJECT
40 / 120 160hrs
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PROJECTS
The Ballot Day Project is an application to serve the general public
election information. Based on an entered address and mapped
by the Address Service Project, the application will return voting
location(s), ballot items and ballot item descriptions.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for the citizens of Montgomery County
Result: A web application delivering voting locations and ballot
information.
BOUNDARY PROJECT
160 / 0 160hrs
The Boundary Project is the effort required to establish, verify and
maintain all jurisdictional boundaries.
This includes but is not limited to City limits, ETJs, County
Commissioner and Constable Precincts, voting precincts, response
areas for all emergency response and dispatch organizations, utility
and special districts and the Montgomery County line.
These boundaries will serve not only as base map data but will help
drive many of the GIS requests.
Example: Provide a total in mileage of all County maintained roads
within Commissioner Precinct 1. In this request, the Precinct 1
boundary is used to group the roads for a total mileage.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for Everyone
Result: Jurisdictional boundaries; County Commissioner Precincts,
Sheriff, County, city, ETJ, etc.
BRIDGE PROJECT
60 / 160 220hrs
The Bridge Project expands the possibilities of managing off-system
state bridges under the County’s jurisdiction.
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Focused forms and data entry pages, designed to catalog the
inspection process defined for off system bridge maintenance, will
provide efficiencies in cataloging inspection information.
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for Engineering
Result: An application assisting in the required bridge inspection
process. Includes Entry Forms and reminders.
DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECT
8 / 40 48hrs
The Demographic Project is a web based GIS application that creates
demographic reports based on radii or drive times. The application is
built upon ESRI ArcGIS Online Services and allows the user to begin
a session by either entering an address or clicking on a map.
The requested geometry (radius or drive time) is mapped and the
accompanying demographic report is provided in a PDF format.
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for Commissioner Precincts and Regional Planning
Result: An application providing demographic information based on
user input.
EASEMENT PROJECT
320 / 120 440hrs
The Easement Project is the effort required to align all County
Easements and the GIS tools necessary to disseminate the
Easements effectively.
Below is a list of the different manners in which the easement
information can be delivered. The amount of effort is also reflected
in the order.
1. Easement documentation can be retrieved based on general
areas. A small amount of searching would be required to identify
exactly where the easements are located.
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2. Easement documentation would be georectified and can serve
much like a base map.
3. Easements are drawn and delivered as a GIS feature.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for Engineering and Commissioner Precincts
Result: Easement information retrievable by a map
FIRE MARSHAL FORMS PROJECT
20 / 160 180hrs
The Fire Marshal Forms Project will help assign and catalog
Inspections performed by Fire Marshals.
Digital inspection forms will be built upon a GIS enabled database
of buildings, structures and addresses (The Address Point Table
Project). Inspection data will be captured digitally in the field and
tied to the addresses.
The project will include routing, web forms, and reporting tools.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for the Fire Marshal
Result: An application of Inspection Entry Forms
INSPECTION FORM PROJECT
40 / 160 200hrs
The Inspection Form Project is a bootstrap application designed to
provide the essential tools necessary to perform a typical inspection
performed by the department of Environmental Health Services.
The application will be built to accommodate inspection type and
collected data.
The application will include report and graphing tools.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for Environmental Health Services
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Result: An application to assist the Environmental Health Services
employees with inspections.
KMZ DROP PROJECT
10 / 40 50hrs
The KMZ Drop Project provides the ability to “drag and drop” a
KMZ file directly into the GIS Web Map.
This provides the quick ability to view KMZ files within a County
provided GIS Web Map including County maintained data.
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for the County Clerk’s office but available to everyone
Result: A web application allowing user to drop a KMZ file and view
outside of Google Earth.
LAND USE PROJECT
20 / 40 60hrs
The Land Use Project will be designed to view and interact with
Land Use designations at the parcel level.
Based on the land use codes assigned by the MCAD, a data layer
of symbolized land use codes will be made available as both a web
service and within a GIS website.
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for Everyone
Result: Data and application symbolizing land based on land use
designation assigned by MCAD.
MCAD INSPECTOR PROJECT
80 / 320 400hrs
The MCAD Inspector Project will provide a set of mobile GIS tools
to record parcel characteristics. The tools will allow the Inspector to
PROJECTS
review surrounding inspection data while populating web forms to
capture and catalog inspection information.
The collected information will be updated directly to MCAD.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for MCAD
Result: An application to record in-field appraisal efforts and analyze
surrounding property.
MOBILITY PROJECT
160 / 40 200hrs
The Mobility Project is a collection of transportation related issues
including congestion, day time and night time population, projected
population growth corridors, potential improvements and bond issue
related items.
The project will combine the temporal nature of road congestion
(population travel), its physical confinements (the road) and proposed
solutions (County leadership), into one GIS web-based application.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for Engineering, Commissioner Precincts and the General Public
Result: A collective gathering (data and application) of mobility issues
and proposed solutions.
MOSQUITO CONTROL PROJECT
80 / 160 240hrs
To help protect the health and well-being of Montgomery County
residents, the Mosquito Control Project will deliver a set of tools
assisting in the control and management of the mosquito population.
The project will deliver a group of tools to better assist in the
understanding of mosquito patterns and travel, efficiently and
effectively spray for control, and allow the public to submit requests
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• This is an Along the Way Project PERMITTING PROJECT
• Built for Commissioner Precincts
40 / 160 200hrs
Result: An application for reporting, tracking and analyzing trap results.
The Permitting Project is a mobile application designed to provide
the essential tools necessary to complete an inspection worksheet:
MY PRECINCT PROJECT addressed location, structure type, inspection codes, data entry and
20 / 40 60hrs inspector.
The My Precinct Project is a web-based application for the general The application will be built to accommodate a variety of inspection
public that returns County services, jurisdictional boundaries and if types and collected data.
available, City services based on an entered address.
The application will include review, report and graphing tools.
An entered address will be mapped (The Address Service Project),
• This is a Phase II Project
queried against available boundaries (The Boundary Project) with
• Built for Environmental Health Services
the results returned to the user in a friendly fashion.
Result: Permit Entry Form Application. Initially built in a generic fashion
• This is an Along the Way Project
to cover several departmental needs with the ability to customize.
• Built for the General Public
Result: An all inclusive application identifying County and or City PLAT PROJECT
services based on address.
160 / 160 320hrs
PARCEL PROJECT The Plat Project is the effort required to catalog, align and build the
GIS tools necessary to disseminate the plats in an effective manner.
20 / 60 80hrs
The list below includes the different manners in which plat information
The Parcel Project is a distributable dataset of parcels sourced from
can be delivered. The amount of effort is also reflected in the order.
MCAD. MCTX-GIS will provide the parcel data within a sharable
environment as well as a web service. 1. Plats can be retrieved based on general areas. A small amount of
searching would be required to identify exactly where the plats
Dataset will be versioned and heavily documented through the align with the base map.
accompanying GIS metadata.
2. Plats would be georectified and can serve much like a base map.
This data is intended to be consumed by other agencies relieving
their effort to keep updated parcel information. Information derived from the plat, beyond MCAD’s role in parcel
creation, includes easements, Right of Way and road width.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for Everyone • This is a Phase II Project
• Built for Engineering and Commissioner Precincts
Result: Distributable Parcel Coverage
Result: Agreement and practice across several offices to centralize
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PRECINCT ASSET PROJECT
80 / 160 240hrs
The Precinct Asset Project is an inventory of County maintained/
owned assets. The hard assets such as roads, signals, signage, and
drainage infrastructure are mapped in a GIS format.
These assets can be mapped either by plan (design or construction
plans) or collected in the field.
These assets become part of the overall inventory and serve as the
base for work orders and other operational advantages.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for Engineering and Commissioner Precincts
Result: A GIS catalog of County maintained assets.
PRECINCT WORK ORDER PROJECT
80 / 320 400hrs
The Precinct Work Order Project is a GIS and mobile application
designed to assist in the recordation of work performed by Precinct
staff performed on Precinct Assets.
The Work Order application can be built in two fashions.
1. Built upon a pre-existing base of assets (Precinct Asset Project)
2. Build the Asset inventory “as you go”
Work Order tied to an asset location determined by location services
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for Engineering and Commissioner Precincts
Result: An application to log and track work requests.
PREVENTATIVE & SCHEDULED
MAINTENANCE PROJECT
40 / 160 200hrs
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The Preventative & Scheduled Maintenance Project is designed to assist
the Engineering Department in their asset maintenance responsibilities.
The scheduling of preventative or scheduled maintenance will be
handled within an advanced GIS application providing reminders,
locations and the captured event of the maintenance performed.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for Engineering
Result: An application to assist Engineering with reminders and logging
of work performed on assets.
ROAD CONDITION PROJECT
40 / 80 120hrs
The Road Condition Project will provide a mobile GIS application
allowing qualified Precinct staff to perform a “windshield inspection”.
The application will provide location services and capabilities to
assign Condition values as interpreted by Precinct staff.
The collected Condition data can be used to develop a Pavement
Condition Index to better help prioritize maintenance, resurfacing,
and long range planning.
The Road Log Project should be completed prior to the Road
Condition Project.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for Commissioner Precincts
Result: Road condition values for County maintained roads collected
with in-field devices and applications via windshield inspections.
ROAD LOG PROJECT
20 / 60 80hrs
The Road Log Project allows the Engineering Department to add
characteristics to a road centerline such as road width, Right of Way,
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and allowable utility easements based on information derived from
submitted plats.
Information can be entered into a non GIS table and then linked to
the map through a unique road ID.
This effort can be tied in with the Plat and Easement Project.
This information will be shared out to qualified parties in a GIS web
application as well as a standard web service.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for Engineering and Commissioner Precincts
Result: A collection of County maintained roads and their
characteristics.
SEPTIC INSPECTION PROJECT
40 / 120 160hrs
The Septic Inspection Project is designed to assist in the Septic
Inspection process performed by the Environmental Health Services
department.
A mobile GIS application will allow inspection staff to record and
catalog inspection information through web-based forms ultimately
tied to address and parcel IDs (through the Address Point Table
Project).
Reporting and analysis tools will be provided.
• This is a Phase II Project
• Built for the Environmental Health Services department
Result: An application to assist staff with the septic inspection process,
includes digital entry forms.
SJRA TRUNK PROJECT
40 / 160 200hrs
The SJRA Trunk Project expands on previous work performed by
the SJRA (San Jacinto River Authority). The SJRA has developed
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a Desktop GIS Water Demand Model. The Water Demand Model has
mapped water sources, treatment locations, distribution lines and
demand points.
The SJRA Trunk Project will make this infrastructure available
within a web-based GIS application. The application will further
allow supply/demand projections based on proposed developments.
Qualified offices will be allowed to add in estimated demand points
(representing new developments) along the trunk line without
divulging potential development activities.
These projections are important for the SJRA to know so that they
may provide adequate services.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for the SJRA and greater development good of the Woodlands
Result: An application allowing qualified users to enter projected
water demands based on potential projects. Project name would be
anonymous.
STREET & ADDRESS PROJECT
40 / 80 120hrs
The Street & Address Project is the effort needed to establish a
County-wide acceptable format for creating, maintaining and
distributing street and address information.
Montgomery County Emergency Communications District
(911) maintains a source driven street centerline coverage while
assigning addresses to new structures. This information fully
serves their 911 dispatch requirements but it does not fully serve
the needs of MCHD (Montgomery County Hospital District), the
Sheriff’s office or various cities.
Because the original 911 data does not fully serve the collective need,
certain dispatch organizations have chosen to disconnect from the 911
source data and maintain a separate Street & Address dataset.
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The Street & Address Project is designed to establish an agreed upon
collective strategy for building and delivering usable GIS street and
address information.
In addition, the Street & Address Project will implement an
error / correction cycle to help improve the overall quality of the
information. Included within the correction cycle are MCHD, The
Woodlands Township and Elections.
These efforts will help in the efficiencies of moving towards a
holistically accepted address and street data set.
• This is a Phase I Project
• Built for the collective need of street and address information
Result: A sharable street and address layer qualified by the collective
effort of several departments providing updates and corrections.

TAX OFFICE PROJECT

40 / 40 80hrs
The Tax Office Project is a GIS web application that presents the
Tax Office information at the parcel level.
The Tax information is related back to the parcels through the
parcel account number.
With this database connection established a variety of map views
can be created like properties in the state of a tax sale.
• This is an Along the Way Project
• Built for the Tax Office
Result: A mapping application displaying Tax Office information as it
relates to parcels.

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Foundation Data - Address & Street Data Foundation Data - Jurisdictional Boundaries
All County address and street data is created and maintained by the Montgomery County Montgomery County is layered with boundaries that identify Commissioner Precincts and
Emergency Communication District (MCECD 911). The MCECD 911 District serves as boundaries that identify city limits, ETJs, Constable Precincts, special districts, response
the County’s authority for addressing and assigns all new addresses. The address and zones, MUDs, improvement districts, voting districts, and CCNs just to list a few. These
street data that is produced is designed specifically for the 911 District’s dispatch needs. boundaries are important for taxing, voting, dispatching, maintenance, governing, etc.
The type, format, and characteristic features of the data are built and designed to be Under this GIS Strategic Plan we have allocated effort to verify and document these
used in accordance with MCED 911’s dispatch parameters. boundaries. Under the Boundary Project, the MCTX-GIS department will verify the
This design strategy has withdrawn several agencies from participating in a central boundaries from a variety of sources and establish a monthly routine for updates.
repository of address and street data. The 911 data simply does not meet the full This effort will assure quality boundaries across the County and establish a practice to
need of others. The removal of these agencies from the data cycle has reduced the keep these current.
opportunity to successfully deliver address and street information across the County.
These withdrawn agencies include, but are not limited to, the Montgomery County
Hospital District, The Woodlands Fire Department, The Woodlands Township, the
City of Conroe, and Montgomery County Elections.
Four projects identified in this guide address these concerns and provide a solution to move
forward in a collaborative manner. These projects are the Street & Address Project, 911
Road Filter Project, Address Service Project and the Address Point Table Project.
This is a top priority item within this GIS Strategic Plan and should be addressed first.
Foundation Data - Parcels
Outside of addresses, the MCAD parcel information was the most requested piece of
data during the interview sessions. And it’s not surprising because parcel information
can relay a massive amount of information just from its shape alone: size, connectivity,
alignments, population density and rural living just to list a few. Then we look at the
temporal characteristics of the parcel such as ownership, land value, improvement values,
type of structures and land use, and then the importance of parcel information becomes
evident for all.
Working under a Gentleman’s Agreement, MCAD and the MCTX-GIS department will
publish a timely and sharable GIS parcel layer (refer to the Parcel Project). It is the
intention of both MCAD and MCTX-GIS to have monthly updates as a Non-Certified
Roll layer supplemented with two annual Certified Roll data sets.
This will provide one location for all County offices and Partner Organizations to acquire
current MCAD data. This simple routine will save a considerable amount of man hours
across the entire County.

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•
1
Enhancement
opportunities exist with other
organizations like MCHD,
Elections, The Township and
other cities
2 • Information Source:
• The Address Point
structurally allows other
business processes to JOIN
in like Permitting, Inspections
and Environmental Health
Services
• Address data needs to be
padded heavily with Metadata
911 Request
CALENDAR MONTH
S M T W T F S
PROJECTS
1. Street & Address Project p.39
2. Address Point Table Project p.27
DATA
ADDRESS POINTS BUSINESSES & DEMOGRAPHICS • An ANNUAL InfoGroup
Collaborative data purchase is
• Business locations and available through H-GAC
• Marks the location of
structures demographics supporting the
County • ESRI provides demographic
information through ArcGIS
Online credits
Montgomery County • Information Source:
InfoGroup, ESRI, HGAC and
Emergency Communication
derived information from the • NO NEED TO UPDATE
District (911)
County and City permitting demographic data, ESRI does
processes this
• Data Format: GIS
• Data Format: GIS and Tabular • Analysis tools and data can
ALL OFFICES: (PRECINCTS, TAX, COUNTY be created for Community
CLERK, PERMITTING, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, leaders and decision makers
AIRPORT, ETC.) PRECINCTS, ENVIRONMENT HEALTH SERVICES,
Provides an x,y location for households, businesses, places of interests and
AIRPORT, SJRA, TOWNSHIP AND VARIOUS CITIES • Data can be used to attract,
retain or relocate desired
other structures. InfoGroup provides a dataset of business locations with name, type, businesses to the County
Sourced during the platting process. employees and sales volume.
• Business data can complement
Plats must be submitted to 911 - County Agreement. Independent analysis can be performed with the InfoGroup
the Permitting process
information to assist regional and local planning.
911 assigns the addresses.
ESRI provides demographic information that is readily available to be
Address points are EXTREMELY important to the emergency response used in the ESRI GIS environment.
organizations across the County. 1
An application delivering demographic information based on a user
Regional emergency response organizations (MCHD) and service providers defined radii or drive times.
(The Township and various cities) need more out of this data set.
It is important to understand your business surroundings, a reason why
Data held at 911 -  Readily available for distribution. collectively this data is desired by multiple offices.
Importance level to the community: 01234 Importance level to the community: 01234
911 Info Group ESRI
PROJECTS
1. Demographic Project p.30
Submittal Engineering MCTX-GIS MCTX-GIS Permitting MCTX-GIS General
Application Public
• Inspections
• Planning
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• Importance level based on the
2
collective need 0 1 3 4
EASEMENTS FLOOD PLAINS •
1
Determines TASKS
and FORMS in the County
• Importance level based on • Defines an area granting Permitting process
Engineering and Precincts limited use for the purpose of
• Delineates areas based flood
need 0 1 2 34 access and or improvements
hazards and risks • Standard Symbology

• EXTREMELY beneficial for • Information Source: Various • Updated twice a year

• Information Source: FEMA
planning activities for both
Engineering and the Precincts • Data Format: Engineering • MCTX-GIS to provide as a GIS
as Hard Copy or Scanned • Data Format: GIS
web service
• A good starting point - Submittals
Georeferencing the scanned
documents
ENGINEERING, COUNTY CLERK AND PRECINCTS ENGINEERING, COUNTY CLERK AND PRECINCTS
The document identifying an easement in itself is beneficial: Data provided directly from FEMA.
• A good ending point - A GIS • As a reference
layer of easements Data is not enhanced or altered by any other Organizations.
• As a backing piece of information
Data is important in the planning and development process for County
The information DERIVED from the easement document is EXTREMELY
activities.
beneficial:
• Defined area Must make data readily available to all that request.
• Allowable utilities
• Access Importance level to the community: 01234
Easements are currently a piece of information drawn within a submitted
plat, design or set of construction plans.
1
Engineering Request and The process of capturing an easement into GIS needs to be
established:
CALENDAR MONTH • Which office
S M T W T F S • Accuracy level
• Type

Importance level to the community: 01234

Engineering FEMA

PROJECTS PROJECTS
1. Easement Project p.30 1. Permitting Project p.35
Submittal Commissioner’s MCTX-GIS Engineering MCTX-GIS Web
Court Application Service

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• GIS Committee integral in
keeping this data GOOD
JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
• Annexation documents would
be GOOD to have
• Will provide GOOD base map
information
• City Hall and County Clerk is a
GOOD source for changes
ALL OFFICES (PRECINCTS, TAX, COUNTY CLERK,
PERMITTING, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AIRPORT,
ETC.)
“Jurisdictional Boundaries” refers to a wide variety of delineations and
assignments:
• City and ETJ limits
• Annexations
• Unincorporated lands
• Political boundaries
• Taxing jurisdictions
DATA
LAND USE • The Houston-Galveston Area
Council (H-GAC) is interested
in standards for Land Use
• Denotes what type of Codes
• Delineates areas of influence,
development can or has been
obligations and services
built within the defined tract • Land Use data is ultimately
of land used in the H-GAC Regional
• Information Source: 911,
MCAD and Cities Forecast
• Information Source: 1
Montgomery County • and Land Use
• Data Format: Available in a Appraisal District (MCAD) codes can be used to create
VARIETY of formats
a pleasant base map for
• Data Format: GIS table distribution (Web Service)
PRECINCTS, TAX OFFICE AND REGIONAL
FORECASTING
Land Use values are important to a smaller audience.
Land Use values are assigned by MCAD during the parcel creation process.
Land Use can be beneficial in the long range planning of the County.
Land Use can be beneficial in the building and permitting process.
These values are part of the parcel data set.

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Provides a spatial TRIGGER for:
Importance level to the community:
• Maintenance responsibilities
Contacting City Hall and County
Clerk for update request
• Response Services MCAD Request
• Asset Boundaries
CALENDAR MONTH • Voting Ballot CALENDAR MONTH
S M T W T F S • County or City Services S M T W T F S
MCTX-GIS must be active to improve and maintain this data.
Some datasets are on a monthly request update: City limits and ETJ.
Some datasets are rather static: Political and Districts. MCAD

Importance level to the community: 01234 PROJECTS

1. Land Use Project p.32
Submittal Engineering Commissioner’s MCTX-GIS
Court

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• A Gentleman’s Agreement
exists between Montgomery
County and MCAD to help
with IT Infrastructure
1 • Marks Ownership of Land
• MCTX-GIS will
house monthly versions of
the Parcel data tagged as
Certified or Non-Certified
and make available to the GIS
community
• Ownership information
includes % owner, acreage and
Land Use codes
• Very interested in receiving
address and street data from
911
MCAD Request
CALENDAR MONTH
S M T W T F S
PROJECTS
1. Parcel Project p.34
DATA
PARCELS PLATS • The Plat is a top priority; this
is the root of information
1
• A map showing the divisions • MCTX-GIS may assist
of land the multiple offices by:
• Information Source: • Information Source: 1. Providing a central location
Montgomery County Montgomery County to store the Plats
Appraisal District (MCAD) Engineering
2. Providing data structure and
• Data Format: GIS Format • Data Format: Hard Copy or tagging for easy retrieval
Scanned Plat Submittals
3. Providing a collective
USERS OF THE DATA: EVERYBODY (PRECINCTS, ENGINEERING, MCAD, COUNTY CLERK AND
repository of derived
TAX, COUNTY CLERK, PERMITTING, PRECINCTS information
EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AIRPORT, ETC.) The Plat itself is beneficial.
• The information derived from
Provides ownership information and the geometry/boundaries of the land. • As a reference
• As a backing piece of information the Plat are LEVEL 4 data sets
Information source document (plat) begins in the Montgomery County
Engineers office. The information DERIVED from the Plat is EXTREMELY beneficial.
• Property lines
The plat provides the descriptions to map the tract of land. • Street names
Parcels are created by the MCAD Staff. • Easements
The Certified Roll is provided in the month of July. Plats are currently being stored in several locations across County offices
— This is NOT efficient.
Non-Certified Parcel information is also distributed in April and October. • Engineering
• County Clerk Engineering Request
Parcel data -  Readily available for distribution. • MCAD
Tabular data is sent to the Tax Office once a month. CALENDAR MONTH
Similar information being recorded from the Plat is repeated across County S M T W T F S
MCTX-GIS will become a monthly holder of this data. offices — This is NOT efficient.
Importance level to the community: 01234 Importance level to the community: 01234
MCAD Engineering County Clerk
PROJECTS
1. Plat Project p.35
Submittal Engineering Commissioner’s MCTX-GIS Submittal Commissioner’s MCAD MCTX-GIS
Court Court
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• Information enhancement
opportunities come from
STREET CENTERLINES TRAILS • A Task Group within the GIS
Committee should be created
MCHD, Elections and various to address the Trail issue:
cities • Represents the linear
• Non-vehicular routes of
features of a road 1. Define a Trail
mobility
• An information enhancement
cycle needs to be established: • Information Source: 2. Digitize Trails
• Information Source: To Be
Edit/Correction Process Montgomery County
Named
Emergency Communication 3. Trail Routing
• Padded heavily with Metadata District (MCECD 911)
• Data Format: Data exists in a
variety of formats • Include Trail data with
• Unique ID must be reliable • Data Format: GIS Mobility plans
ALL OFFICES (PRECINCTS, TAX, COUNTY CLERK, PRECINCTS, CITIES AND EMERGENCY
• Part of the “City Data
PERMITTING, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AIRPORT, RESPONSE Request”
ETC.) Responsibility for maintaining Trail information is not established.
A GIS line that represents a physical street. Definition of a Trail is not established.
Holds STREET NAME and address range information. Trail information exists in small data pockets; MUDs, master-planned
A UNIQUE ID, established by 911, allows other organizations to attach community plans, mobility plans and some County offices.
extending information such as: Trails are becoming important and a high priority in emergency response.
• Condition Values
• Road Logs How can we route emergency response personnel to a trail.
• Right of Way
How can the public make their location known when on a trail.
• Routing
• Alias or common names Trails can greatly improve the base map when aesthetics are important.
911 Request City Request

CALENDAR MONTH
Streets sourced during the platting process. Importance level to the community: 01234 CALENDAR MONTH
Plats must be submitted to 911 - County Agreement.
S M T W T F S S M T W T F S
911 creates and maintains the street GIS file.
Streets are extremely important to the emergency response organizations
across the County.
Regional Emergency Response organizations need more out of this data set.
Data held at 911 -  Readily available for distribution.
Importance level to the community: 01234
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• Utility data would assist in
master-planning
UTILITIES (WATER, SANITARY & WATER - MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE • These are the MAJOR TRUNK
lines for delivery
DRAINAGE)
• Utility information digitized • The source and distribution • Other agencies are
would be used in Asset infrastructure to provide responsible for the ancillary
Management and Work Order • The physical infrastructure water to County residents lines
projects necessary to provide Water, 1
Sanitary and Drainage • Information Source: San • An anonymous
• Source information would services to the public Jacinto River Authority and Water Demand application
be at City and County the Lone Star Groundwater allowing qualified users
Engineering records • Information Source: Varied Conservation District to enter projected water
based on location (County, demands without naming the
• When this data is created City or Utility Districts) • Data Format: GIS, CAD and development
EASEMENTS should also be Scanned Documents
digitized • Data Format: Variety of
formats ENGINEERING, PRECINCTS, THE WOODLANDS
• Part of the “City Data
ENGINEERING, PRECINCTS AND VARIOUS CITIES AND VARIOUS CITIES
Request” process
The Woodlands Division of SJRA provides wholesale water supply and
A valuable piece of information to have for Cities and the County.
wastewater treatment services to The Woodlands.
The state of Utility information differs across the County.
Water source, water treatment and water delivery features are integral in
The Joint Powers Association (JPA) serves the Woodlands and has GIS the future planning and development of Montgomery County.
data that needs to be updated. 1
An application is needed to balance the projected water demand
A variety of cities maintain their own utility data such as the City of Conroe. with current capacities.

City & County A large majority of the information exists in DESIGN or CONSTRUCTION The SJRA currently has a water demand model that could be leveraged.
Engineering Requests plan format: .PDF, paper and possibly CAD.
As the southern part of the County develops, it is IMPORTANT to relay large
CALENDAR MONTH To create GIS Utility data would be a HUGE amount of EFFORT. prospects to SJRA so they may accommodate the increased demand.

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S M T W T F S
Importance level to the community: Importance level to the community:

PROJECTS
1. SJRA Trunk Project p.38

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•
1
and would like
CITY OF CONROE CONSTABLE PRECINCTS 1–5 • A hard copy map book would
be beneficial for all vehicles
to see a centralized address
service • A personalized key map may
• Respond quickly, efficiently be the best route
• Moving towards a GIS
• Willing to use MCTX-GIS and with knowledge of their
Enterprise System
services (GIS infrastructure) surroundings • Pictometry would be a
beneficial for all precincts
• GIS Software: Advanced
• A way to “trigger” quality • GIS Software: Basic
changes from 911 data updates • As mobility in the County is
• GIS Staff: Working
• GIS Staff: Potential addressed, response time is
• Datum, projections, decreased
coordinates and metadata
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS, DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
ADDRESSES, FLOODPLAIN, TRAILS AND ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES AND
JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES CRIME DATA
Maintains their own address database originally sourced from 911. First and foremost street and address data is core to all precincts.

The City has a different need for addressing that 911 data does not
provide.
Strong interest in building footprints and addressing these
buildings.
Uses MCAD but would like a central location for routine updates.
Creates and maintains a utility infrastructure GIS layer.
Knowing where and how to get to a location is imperative.
All precincts rely heavily on 911 data (streets and addresses).
Frequent updates of 911 data is necessary to perform their
responsibilities.
New roads and addresses should be part of their dispatch software
sooner.
1
and : A clear distinction of precinct boundaries and the
relationship of addresses is needed.

Mobility and congestion is a concern also for the responding officers.

PROJECTS PROJECTS
1. Address Service Project p.28 1. Boundary Project p.29

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• GPS enabled radios could be
mapped live
CONSTABLE PRECINCTS 1–5 COUNTY CLERK • Plat maps are scanned and
recorded by instrument
number
• A website for residents to
view past activities, with • Respond quickly, efficiently • Birth and death records are
generalized locations and with knowledge of their • Official Public Records stored here
surroundings
• A tight community between • GIS Software: Basic • A need for historic
precincts that will share • GIS Software: Basic city limits (a timeline of
successful ideas and tools • GIS Staff: Potential boundaries and annexations)
• GIS Staff: Potential for TABC processes
1
• KMZ converter - uses
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS, DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS, KMZ and KML files
ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES AND ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
CRIME DATA
Provides a central location of plat information.
The precincts will be migrating to the Spillman Dispatch solutions,
An absolute point within the plat to parcel data lineage.
Spillman Technologies, Inc.
Plats scanned and stored by instrument number (image files).
Crime analysis capabilities is a BIG topic for all precincts.
Plats are not stored or created as a GIS product.
Data extraction from Spillman to perform GIS mapping and 2
analysis will be extremely helpful, if Spillman does not meet these and : Make plats accessible by instrument number to
needs. qualified offices.
The extracted data can be used to: Absolute interest in making GIS a larger part of their work flow and
making their data available to others.
• Create hot spots of certain activities
• View past incidents, alerting officers of troubled history
• Create exhibits and maps for neighborhood/citizen visits and
presentations
• Show officers active warrants in their vicinity

PROJECTS
1. KMZ Drop Project p.32
2.Plat Project p.35

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COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 1 COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 2

The main area of this page is representative of all Precinct interests (The The main area of this page is representative of all Precinct interests (The
Collective Interests). The side bar is dedicated to Precinct specific needs. Collective Interests). The side bar is dedicated to Precinct specific needs.
• GIS Software: Basic DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
• GIS Staff: Potential
ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES,
FLOODPLAINS, WATER, LAND USE, EASEMENTS,
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS, UTILITIES, TRAILS AND THE OPERATIONAL
ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, ASSETS SUCH AS SIGNS, ROADS AND DRAINAGE
FLOODPLAINS, WATER, LAND USE, EASEMENTS, INFRASTRUCTURE
UTILITIES, TRAILS AND THE OPERATIONAL The Collective need to understand and evaluate Transportation,
• High interest in GIS
ASSETS SUCH AS SIGNS, ROADS AND DRAINAGE Mobility and Congestion as it relates to Population (residential and • Will incorporate GIS in asset
INFRASTRUCTURE business). management and maintenance
1
The Collective interest of managing physical in-field assets. An Analytical look into how population growth, for both • Commercial/corporate
Managing Where, What and the Value of each physical in-field asset. daytime and nighttime population, affects the ability to travel development vs. residential
1 throughout the County.
Asset Management: • Attracting desirable
Transportation - Existing road capacities developments to balance
• Signs County service costs
• Roads Mobility - Planned road improvements or construction
• Has a ledger of historic work/
• Drainage infrastructure Congestion - Traffic Count and Travel Records effort/cost
2
Work Order Application Growth Corridors - Areas defined by local leaders with the
The Collective need to manage the maintenance and work performed capacity to increase both residential and commercial/corporate
on the physical in-field asset. expansion.

When, where and what work was performed

on the in-field asset?
PROJECTS PROJECTS
1. Precinct Asset Project p.36 1. Mobility Project p.33
2. Precinct Work Order Project p.36

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• EXTREMELY High Interest in
GIS
• Will dedicate staff to use
simple GIS applications
• Asset Inventory, Asset
Maintenance and Planning for
the Future
3 log can be utilized to maintain a road inventory.
• Mosquito Control
PROJECTS
1. Road Log Project p.37
2.Road Condition Project p.37
3. Mosquito Control Project p.33
OFFICES
COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 3 COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 4
The main area of this page is representative of all Precinct interests (The The main area of this page is representative of all Precinct interests (The
Collective Interests). The side bar is dedicated to Precinct specific needs. Collective Interests). The side bar is dedicated to Precinct specific needs.
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS, DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES,
FLOODPLAINS, WATER, LAND USE, EASEMENTS, FLOODPLAINS, WATER, LAND USE, EASEMENTS,
UTILITIES, TRAILS AND THE OPERATIONAL UTILITIES, TRAILS AND THE OPERATIONAL
ASSETS SUCH AS SIGNS, ROADS AND DRAINAGE ASSETS SUCH AS SIGNS, ROADS AND DRAINAGE
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
Desires an efficient way to know the roads: the Precincts The Collective need to adhere and assist the regional strategies of • High Interest in GIS
responsibilities, allowable improvements and associated information. surface/groundwater conversion.
• Currently uses a county
1 1
provided work order system
Road Log - The process of recording road information, The need of a central application representing the
currently being captured in the engineering office, can be slightly infrastructure related to water collection and delivery. • Big user of pictometry
modified to make this information available to all Precincts in a
• Water source
map format. • Road condition values
1 • Water delivery
and Road Inventory - Information derived from the road • Major usage locations • Match street signs to 911
2
2 and Mosquito Control - An application to help staff
and Road Condition Index - Building on the road log/ analyze Mosquito trap data and spray scheduling
inventory, a simple “windshield” condition/inspection can be 3
and My Precinct - An application that will simply inform
performed by Precinct staff.
residents of their surroundings such as utility districts, city/county
services and floodplain
PROJECTS
1. SJRA Trunk Project p.38
2. Mosquito Control Project p.33
3. My Precinct Project p.34
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• Uses tabular data to solve
location questions
ELECTIONS EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION • Creates jurisdictional
boundaries along with MCAD
DISTRICT-911
• “Street Guide” currently • Migrating to NENA standards
holds correction to street
• Providing the opportunity for • At Montgomery County 9-1-1,
ranges • Uses pictometry
the public to vote we work to ensure all citizens
• This office provides an of Montgomery County can • Metadata is HUGE
• GIS Software: Basic easily and quickly obtain the
excellent quality control
point for street and address emergency services needed
• GIS Staff: Working to protect life, health or
information
property

DATA INTEREST: PARCELS, STREETS, ADDRESSES • GIS Software: Advanced

AND JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
• GIS Staff: Working
Business process is extremely location centric but, this office does
not leverage GIS to its potential. DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
ADDRESSES, FLOODPLAIN, TRAILS AND
Address and street data is maintained in a non-GIS table - “Street JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
Guide”.
Agreement in place for Engineering to pass 911 plat information for
Maintains and corrects data in the “Street Guide”. addressing purposes.
Corrections are not pushed to other organizations. Creates and maintains the central database for addresses and streets.
1 1
Establish update procedures to push corrections back to 911. A HUGE piece to process of providing address and street
2 information to the region.
A Public facing site that includes voting locations and ballot
information - based on entered address. Dispatches police NOT an ambulance.

Recently added a unique ID to its data schema to accommodate

other database needs.
2
Needs application help to create a filtering system for road
data (ex- shows only new roads).
PROJECTS PROJECTS
1. Street & Address Project p.39 1. Street & Address Project p.39
2. Ballot Day Project p.28 2. 911 Road Filter Project p.27

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•
1
and Road log
and road inventory project
necessary for engineering,
helpful for the region
2 safety and welfare of the all
• and Storage of
digital plats - Stop replicating
this elsewhere
3 • Inter-local agreements to
• and Bridge
inspections forms and
calendar event reminders
4 DATA INTEREST: DATA INTEREST, PLATS,
• Preventative and
annual maintenance
application
PROJECTS
1. Road Log Project p.37
2. Plat Project p.35
3. Bridge Project p.29
4. Preventative & Scheduled
Maintenance Project p.36
OFFICES
ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES • In-field personnel collects
»» Locations of illegal burning
»» Septic permits
»» Food permits
• To protect the health, »» Establishment inspections
• This is the focal point for
data and productive projects
Montgomery County citizens • Building plans are
submitted to this office
• GIS Software: Basic
• GIS Software: Basic
• GIS Staff: Working
• GIS Staff: Potential inspect food establishments
for certain cities
DATA INTEREST: PARCELS, STREETS, ADDRESSES, • Over 3,000 food
PARCELS, STREETS, ADDRESSES, EASEMENTS, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES AND establishment inspections
UTILITIES, WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, LAND USE, FLOODPLAINS performed
JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, FLOODPLAINS,
Departmental operations would benefit greatly with GIS. • Over 2,000 septic visits
PARKS, TRAILS
Engineering serves as the KEY OFFICE for the data and projects Staff performs in field inspections and permitting.
that the rest of the County needs.
Address locations of inspections and permits should be tied to GIS
The platting process passes through this office. with digital forms.
1 2
The construction process passes through this office. and Create digital inspection and permit forms tied
to address for septic, health inspections, food permits, and illegal
Master drainage plans are submitted to this office. burning.
The Engineering office records road log information and distributes Inspection and permit data tied to addresses could be passed
essential pieces of information. to County and City offices to enhance their information (business
The information is not yet in a GIS format but can be efficiently locations, septic locations).
accomplished. Should be included in the 911 address updates.
A HEAVY focus should be in this office.
GIS would help with routing and planning of in field visits.
PROJECTS
1. Inspection Form Project p.31
2. Septic Inspection Project p.38
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•
1
In need of a better way
FIRE MARSHAL HOSPITAL DISTRICT (MCHD) • County has 3 CAD Systems:
Sheriff’s Office, City of
to record inspections Conroe and MCHD

• We are here to assist the

• Pictometry would be • Should provide an error or
• Inspections and people in Montgomery
extremely beneficial change log from consultant
Investigations County in their emergency
medical, preparedness and
• Open for other solutions • CAD system directly works
• GIS Software: Basic healthcare needs
provided by MCTX-GIS with ArcGIS mxds
• GIS Staff: Working • GIS Software: Advanced
• Already using mobile devices
• Available GIS Staff: Working
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
ADDRESSES, FLOODPLAIN, TRAILS AND
2 Divisions: Inspections and Investigations JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
The Inspection Division needs an entry point common to other
MCHD Uses 911 (MCECD) address and street data as an initial
County offices; need of plats, need of address location and need of
source only.
recordation of visit.
911 data does NOT DIRECTLY accomplish their need.
The Inspection Division is already included in the plat process.
MCHD requires routing capabilities.
The Investigations Division supports activities with mapping and
data. MCHD contracts with a consultant to modify 911 before MCHD
integrates the data into their dispatch system.
The Investigation Division supports the control of wildfires with
mobile control centers, planning, and resources. MCHD routinely submits error or modification reports to 911.
2
Historically has participated in the Urban Areas Security Initiative Needs to be a larger part of enhancing 911 data at its source.
(UASI) to disperse relevant information: damage assessment, pre-
planning, mapping, and analytical services.

PROJECTS PROJECTS
1. Fire Marshall Forms Project p.31 1. Street & Address Project p.41

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• An ALP (Airport Layout Plan)
exists on paper
LONE STAR EXECUTIVE AIRPORT MONTGOMERY CENTRAL APPRAISAL • Maintains a Gentleman’s
Agreement with Montgomery
1 DISTRICT (MCAD) County IT
• Create an eALP
(electronic airport plan) • To serve the needs of • Montgomery County IT
corporate aviation and our provides infrastructure and
1 • To keep the process of
local aircraft owner/pilot GIS services to support MCAD
• Quick project to turn appraising property separate
population in the North operations
operational and ALP data into from the process of levying
Houston/The Woodlands/
a usable interface (80 hours of a tax
Conroe area
GIS work) • Certified Roll released in July
• GIS Software: None • GIS Software: Advanced
• No WiFi • Non-Certified Roll available in
• Available GIS Staff: Working April and October
• Available GIS Staff: None

DATA INTEREST: PLATS, STREETS, ADDRESSES, • Creates jurisdictional

DATA INTEREST: PARCELS, STREETS, ADDRESSES JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, TAX AND OF boundaries for areas defined
AND BUSINESS DATA COURSE PARCELS
to collect tax

Extremely isolated from regional GIS needs.

Actively seeks new recorded instruments.
GIS needs are confined within their boundaries.
Image catalog of abstracts and plats.
Operational data such as utilities, lighting and drainage information
Large staff dedicated to collecting, creating and distributing parcel
exists in paper or CAD formats.
1 information.
1
Move operational data from paper and CAD into GIS.
1 Extremely willing to explore ideas on how to distribute parcel
Simple work order application tied to operational data. information to the GIS regional community.

Builds Parcels - Geometry.

2
An application accessible in the field to retrieve parcel and
surrounding appraised values.
2
An application accessible in the field to record and enter
appraisal information - Work flow application.
PROJECTS PROJECTS
1. Airport GIS Project p.28 1. Parcel Project p. 34
2. MCAD Inspector Project p.32

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• The Ironman Texas would
be an excellent event for
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SAN JACINTO RIVER AUTHORITY (SJRA) • Strong push for internal GIS

planning with GIS • Interacts with the Lonestar

• Live weather data and
forecasts are important to
them
• Pictometry would be a
beneficial
• Would like to use GIS much
more
• Include this office in the GIS
Committee Meetings
• The Montgomery County Office of
Emergency Management (OEM)
is responsible for the planning,
coordination, and implementation
of all emergency management and
Homeland Security related activities for
Montgomery County
• GIS Software: Basic
• GIS Staff: Working
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, STREETS, ADDRESSES,
JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, TAX AND OF
COURSE PARCELS
• To provide reliable, cost-
efficient, and sustainable
water resource management
• GIS Software: Advanced
• GIS Staff: Working
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, SINGLE FAMILY
EQUIVALENCY, STREETS (PUBLIC/PRIVATE) AND
UTILITIES
SJRA has a history of using GIS as a management tool.
Groundwater Conservation
District (LGCD), The
Woodlands and the National
Parks Service (NPS)
• Performs water testing and
cleaning for The Woodlands
• Water demand and
capacity model
• Rainfall gauges
• NPS Grant Opportunity
for Land Management

SJRA has the current capability to interact with regional offices in a

The OEM relies heavily on GIS; it is part of their work flow.
The OEM currently uses WebEOC, Digital Sandbox (Urban Areas
Security Initiative (UASI)) and Pier.
The OEM needs a better solution with better data—MCTX-GIS
Services.
GIS is HUGE in their response to events; but need better tools.
In need of data that can be collected in the platting and building
permit offices.
GIS centric capacity.
SJRA’s water management and planning tied to regional growth.
To serve in the desire capacity the SJRA needs to be privy
to planned development and expansion strategies of regional
developments.
Water infrastructure needs to at a minimum match the demand.
Time is needed to plan and build the infrastructure to meet this
demand.
1
Anonymous Water Demand Model - building upon an existing
GIS model, allow qualified users to input projected water demand
values in an anonymous manner.
PROJECTS
1. SJRA Trunk Project p.38

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• Pictometry would be
beneficial for all precincts
SHERIFF’S OFFICE TAX OFFICE • Collects payments
for motor vehicle registrations
• A better way to allocate • To assess and collect ad 1
officers • Respond quickly, efficiently valorem tax accounts as • Motor vehicle
and with knowledge of their identified and valued by registrations data can be
• Data export to MCTX-GIS for surroundings the Montgomery Central analyzed to depict residential
further analysis and mapping Appraisal District congestion/mobility
• GIS Software: Basic
• Replace older analytic • GIS Software: None • Has a STRONG interest in GIS
software with MCTX-GIS • GIS Staff: Potential and what it can do for the Tax
Services • GIS Staff: None Office
2
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS, • Wants to see were tax
ADDRESSES, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES AND DATA INTEREST: PARCELS, STREETS, ADDRESSES, sales are located
CRIME DATA JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
First and foremost street and address data is core to all Receives account and property value data from MCAD in a tabular
precincts. format.

Knowing where and how to get to a location is imperative. ACT (software) manages the connection between MCAD and tax
data.
Frequent updates of 911 data is necessary to perform their
responsibilities. MCAD and tax data is linked by the property account id.

New roads and addresses should be part of their dispatch software Tax data is currently not sent back to MCAD.
sooner. 2
1 Tax Office would like to see their data in a map format.
and Sheriff’s Office zones need to be better defined and
mapped.

Crime analysis and understanding crime data needs to be addressed.

The historic software package Bair Analytics (RAID), needs to be

replaced by MCTX-GIS Services.
PROJECTS Sheriff’s Office needs a better way to route, allocate, and place PROJECTS
1. Boundary Project p.29 1. Mobility Project p.33
officers in the field. 2. Tax Office Project p.40

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•
1
and The county
line between Montgomery
County and Harris County
needs to be established and
widely distributed
• The Township is starting
a sign inventory project
• They have an asset
management and work order
system in place: ERP Software
• Uses Sheriff’s Office, Township
Fire Department and MCHD
for EMS Services
PROJECTS
1. Boundary Project p.29
OFFICES
THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP
• The Woodlands Township is
a special purpose district,
not a city, which acts as
the governmental service
provider for the community
• GIS Software: Advanced
• GIS Staff: Working
DATA INTEREST: PLATS, PARCELS, STREETS,
ADDRESSES, FLOODPLAIN, EASEMENTS, WATER
INFRASTRUCTURE, TRAILS AND JURISDICTIONAL
BOUNDARIES
The Township sources both MCAD and 911 data but modifies this
data to conform to the needs of the Township, creating a separation
from original data.
Street data is modified to utilize routing within GIS, similar to the
needs of MCHD.
Parcel data is modified to include Township characteristics, to better
conform to government type services.
Beginning in 2015 “Easements” will be the
BIG data word.
The Township needs to expand their data and project relationship
with SJRA (who supplies the Township with water).
The Township has a records department which is a vault of
information that needs to be opened.
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