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Record W247963482

City of Brampton, Ontario, Canada Enabling the Enterprise-Brampton's Web-Based GIS Solution (2005-Enterprise System)

2006· article· en· W247963482 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bill Latchford

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorld Wide WebGIS DayGeographic information systemPublic participation GISBusinessGIS and public healthComputer scienceGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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System Summary Brampton's Web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) solution provides seamless access to key land-based information. award-winning enterprise GIS site, http://www.bramptonmaps.ca, offers citizens, businesses, and other government agencies access to current maps and detailed data for municipal property and facilities, economic development activity, political boundaries, heritage sites, transit services, recreational services, and more. solution is exemplary because it leverages the centralized, maintained information in the enterprise GIS system and distributes this information to all city staff and to the public. Web-based solution is delivered to internal staff via what Brampton calls Accessible Interactive Maps (AIMs). Externally, the general public has access via http://www.bramptonmaps.ca, the mapping component of the city's Web site. Both AIM and http://www.bramptonmaps.ca disseminate the appropriate information to the targeted users. Within city hall, each employee of the corporation has access to the entire database of information managed by the GIS program. Through AIM, all staff members and city councillors have access to the latest information available to the city. A subset of this information is then disseminated to the general public via the http://www.bramptonmaps. ca Web site. This ensures the applicable privacy legislation is upheld and no inappropriate information is distributed. By distributing the information in this way, all parties can retrieve and rely on the most up-to-date spatial information available. City staff and the public understand that current information is available through the enterprise GIS solution. http://www.bramptonmaps.ca Web site was featured in an article published by Intergraph Canada. See http://www.intergraph. ca. . story is on the GeoMedia WebMap Feature Site and references Brampton's achievement: The City of Brampton's is the first site in North America to publish a public facing site administered using this technology.... Brampton was able to get this Web site up and running in only 30 days. Visit our public Internet site: http://www.bramptonmaps.ca. Visit our intranet (AIM) site: Please contact Bill Latchford (bill.latchford@brampton.ca) and we can provide a secure vpn tunnel into the city's intranet to access the AIM solution. Motivation for System Development Brampton is the fastest-growing municipality in Canada and this rapid pace means constantly changing data. There was no standardized method of capturing, recording, and maintaining land-related data changes as the city grew. challenge was to provide staff with easy access to consistent, accurate, up-to-date mapping information in a cost-effective manner. In the past, mapping information available to decision makers, executives, and technical staff originated from many different sources. There was duplication among departments and across corporate functions. information was sometimes obsolete, so decisions risked being based on incorrect information. need was to establish centralized, map-related applications for internal staff, covering specific programs such as the Official Plan Review, Growth Management, Fire & Emergency Services Management, Property Lookup and Notifications, Streetlight Inventory Management, taxation system, tree inventory control, burns permits, and bylaw enforcement, to list a few examples. Economic Development Office needed to field foreign inquiries regarding Brampton's land availability, available business locations, commercial/industrial buy/lease options for property, transportation options, labor pool, and surrounding businesses. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.511
Threshold uncertainty score0.838

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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