Keeping Up With Cloudpoint
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” - Scott Belsky
We are excited to announce that Cloudpoint Geospatial has officially moved to a new office in Metamora, Illinois! After years of growth and success in our previous location in Roanoke, Illinois, this move marks a significant milestone for our team. Why did we move locations? The new office provides us with much more space and additional private offices, enabling us to continue expanding and meeting the needs of our growing team.
The Illinois Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator has released information for FY2025. There is $12 million available for funding GIS projects with a submission deadline of February 20th, 2024. The grant now covers the creation of indoor school (K-12) map data layers, while still supporting projects for required GIS data layers. The state’s prioritization of Indoor school mapping is an exciting development that Cloudpoint fully supports. Cloudpoint has already developed incredible Indoor data for schools and we are ready to assist Illinois PSAPs in vastly improving their school building emergency data.
Date: February 22-23, 2023
Location: Chicago, IL
Cloudpoint Attendees: Jon & Virginia
Cloudpoint Geospatial is honored to announce that we have been recognized as a GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) Endorsing Employer, making us one of only FIVE organizations currently holding the designation. Cloudpoint is proud to have SIX GIS Professionals currently on our team, and looks forward to continuing to be a place that GIS Professionals are proud to be employed
Cloudpoint LOVES referrals! When a county Board of Elections in Ohio came to us in need of help cleaning up their address data - we were ready and (more than) able to help! Our work with the Board includes aligning the road names in two disparate databases to enable cleaner geocoding between the two. While it was our first time assisting a Board of Elections, it was far from our first time cleaning up address data, as we have assisted many 9-1-1 organizations with their data cleanup.
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Becoming an Esri Business Partner was a key to fueling company growth and opening doors to new opportunities. “Our company’s partnership with Esri has boosted our name recognition and allowed for expertise to be noticed on a national verses regional scale.” says founder and CEO, Jonathan Hodel. Now this partnership blossoms once again as Cloudpoint announces they have received their ArcGIS Indoors specialty designation. This process involves completing an application to Esri and then demonstrating the company’s capabilities for indoor mapping by providing real-world examples of implementing this robust solution. This is the fourth Esri ArcGIS specialty designation that the company has received adding to its current accolades which include Local Government, ArcGIS Online, and Release Readiness designations.
A sample snapshot of indoor mapping application ready to provide asset information or turn-by-turn walking directions. Easily select a building and floor level for easy navigation across a campus. You can image the power of this technology as we mitigate the return-to-work process following the COVID-19 pandemic. Things like space management, foot traffic patterns, route planning, and room cleaning updates can all be tracked via an active Indoor GIS system.
Implementing the ArcGIS Indoors solution across an organization, especially a campus-wide project, requires expertise in several areas of GIS including Enterprise GIS deployment, data conversion of CAD or BIM files, GNSS collection for control points, 3D laser scanning equipment, drone imagery, data curation in ArcGIS Pro, publishing web layers, and more. The Cloudpoint team has experience in bringing all of these capabilities together in a seamless fashion to create an immersive interactive campus experience for the end user.
The end results can be as simple as using Esri’s Indoors web application template along with their Indoors native mobile app, or expanded to include a robust customized GIS interface having the ability to integrate with monitoring sensors and real-time location system (RTLS). For many years, GIS has continued to transform the way people engage with locational data and indoor facility mapping will be the catalyst for engaging in more detail in the future.
For more information on how your organization can harness the power of GIS indoors, visit our Indoors page or contact our team of professionals at 877-377-8124.
