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Kinetic Solutions announces
participation in 2004 St. Louis GIS
Day
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St. Louis, MO
(June 21, 2004) Kinetic Solutions
announces their participation in the St. Louis GIS
Day, being held at the St. Louis Zoo on November,
17. 2004. Along with exhibiting the company's
technology, Kinetic Solutions is reaching out to
the community to educate schools, businesses and
the general public on the benefits of GIS technology
and how it is changing the world we live in. Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI), the leader within
the geospatial industry and business partner, is
sponsoring the event.
Held each year
on the Wednesday of National Geographic Society's
Geography Awareness Week (November 14-20 in 2004),
GIS Day is a global event that celebrates geographic
information system (GIS) technology, the innovative
technology that uses geography to bring countless
benefits to the world. The St. Louis GIS Day
provides an opportunity for those curious about
GIS to see its applications in action. A GIS
is a computer-based mapping tool that takes information
from a database about a location, such as streets,
buildings, water features, and terrain, and turns
it into visual layers. The ability to see
geographic features on a map gives users a better
understanding of a particular location, enabling
planners, analysts, and others to make informed
decisions about their communities.
Although
you may not be aware of it, GIS touches our lives
daily. It is used throughout the world to
solve problems related to the environment, health
care, land use, business efficiency, education,
and public safety. The power supply directed
to homes, the patrol cars and fire trucks that keep
neighborhoods safe, and the delivery trucks on the
road all function more efficiently because of GIS.
This technology can also help businesses place
ATMs and restaurants at more convenient locations,
allow people to pull maps off the Internet, an dhelp
farmers grow more crops with less chemicals.
Most
recently we have seen how GIS technology can be used
to aid homeland security initiatives, map the debris
field following the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy,
and monitor the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS). The applications of GIS technology are
endless, limited only by the imagination of its users.
From border patrol agents to doctors, and from
federal agency employees to local city planners, people
in nearly every profession all over the world are reaping
the benefits of this extraordinary technology.
David Hosking, President of
Kinetic Solutions, says, "We're proud to be a part
of this annual event. As a provider of GIS technology
and services, we love to reach out to the St. Louis
community to increase the awareness of how GIS is being
used by our clients. In support of the industry's
efforts to educate the youth, we hope that this year's
GIS Day will benefit educators and those being educated
by providing an opportunity to see the technology first-hand,
and encourage the use of GIS within the classroom and
businesses across the state."
GIS Day serves
to make people aware of GIS technology and the important
contributions it is making in the fields of sciences,
technology, information, and the humanities. It
is a grassroots event and a reflection of the enthusiasm
and commitment of individual GIS users everywhere.
At
this year's St. Louis GIS Day, Kinetic Solutions will
be showcasing their SafeCity™ crime mapping system developed
for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD).
The system received the 2003 St. Louis Technology
Award for involving St. Louis residents in local law
enforcement efforts to fight crime, and the benefits
the system provided to the police. The system
is available to the public at: http://64.218.50/stlouis/newslmpd.
With the increasing need for technology in homeland
security, Kinetic Solutions will also be demonstrating
their Incident Command System. SCOUT™ is a crisis
management tool designed to support tactical response
teams during events such as terrorist attacks, hostage
situations, and natural disasters. The company
will also demonstrate the abilities of web-based GIS
applications with the development of the Madison County
Regional Bikeway Website. Kinetic Solutions will
be displaying a poster in the Map Gallery of data collected
analyzing current crime in the St. Louis metropolitan
area.
This year marks GIS Day's sixth year, so
be sure to join the celebration and become a part of
this annual tradition. For event registration,
support, and ideas or to find a GIS Day 2004 event near
you, log on to www.gisday.com.
Kinetic Solutions is focused on providing quality
GIS services that enable clients to exploit the full potential of their spatial
information. The ability to effectively
move, share, and translate data between various platforms is at the core of
Kinetic Solutions’ business offerings.
A privately held company, Kinetic Solutions provides GIS requirements
analyses, application development and data integration services for law
enforcement, public safety, utilities, local, state and federal
governments. Based in St. Louis, Missouri,
Kinetic Solutions specializes in devising spatial information solutions to fit
the specific business needs of each client.
Visit Kinetic Solutions on the Internet at www.kineticsolutions.net
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