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a couple of days can now be done in 45 minutes.” Future Refinements Now that the foundation has been laid, the system can be used to store almost any conceivable new type of information. Recently, technology has emerged that allows GIS data to be combined with GPS, and there will certainly be future refinements that have not even been thought of yet. “It brings everything together,” Wray says. “It’s just good management to be able to locate all your data.” In May of 2007, NITGC and the Township of Michipicoten received the Award of Excellence at ESRI Canada’s Thunder Bay Regional User Conference. In late August 28, the Municipality of Wawa also received a P.J. Marshall Award in innovation from the Association of 371335_Ingenium.indd 1 3/24/08 8:23:07 AM Municipalities of Ontario for their lead role in developing NITGC. “They’re not using anything different than other municipalities would be doing,” points out Shawn Croisier, ESRI Canada’s Account Manager for Northern Ontario. “They’re a very small group that was able to resolve the complicated nature of technology to benefit their local community.” So what has made NITGC succeed when some similar projects failed to Manufacturers and Machine Builders in Canada and bear fruit? “Partnerships: huge,” says around the world look to SEW-Eurodrive for integrated Croisier. “The really successful GIS implementations in Northern Ontario drive solutions and round-the-clock service and support. are ones where people are working with With three Canadian assembly plants and more true partnerships to make it happen. inventory than all our competitors combined – we are Basically, they pooled their resources the nation’s leading supplier of Geared Motors, speed together and they took it upon themreducers and electronic controllers. selves to build these tools and seed them with local resources.” For the complete solution, call SEW-Eurodrive. “There are a lot of GIS systems out there; what makes ours unique is the multi-community operation,” says Wray. “For a community like ours, DRIVING THE WORLD it’s unique.” Two thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water. The rest is covered by SEW-Eurodrive. May/June 2008 364771_SEWEurodrive.indd 1 municipal MONITOR ·4:19:32 PM 1/22/08 13 http://www.sew-eurodrive.ca

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Municipal Monitor - May/June 2008 Contents President's Message: On Messages and Milestones Viewpoint: Much Ado About Nothing? Again Mapping the North: Municipalities Team Up to Create Sophisticated Geographic Information System The Clean Water Act: Let's Make it Perfectly Clear Developing Trend: Communication is Essential During Large-Scale Projects Water Under the Bridge Municpal Memos Index to Advertisers

Municipal Monitor - May/June 2008

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