NYS GIS Association News

Rockland County Planning Department | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Rockland County developed and launched a COVID-19 HUB along with various related dashboards: Rockland County COVID-19 Dashboard, Rockland Unpause Dashboard, Rockland’s Early Warning Dashboard....

Doug Schuetz | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Doug Schuetz worked with the Health Department and his GIS team to not only build useful public dashboards to track COVID, but also set up a geocoding application. Based on county and state SAM data, this...

New York University | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award This project describes a unique dataset of 5,065 records documenting the behavior of 6,075 individuals around 19 hospitals and urgent care clinics across four of New York’s five boroughs at the height of the...

Richard Reichert | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Rick Reichert was instrumental in creating and maintaining Oneida County’s COVID-19 status dashboard. The dashboard includes mapping that traces the statewide spread of the pandemic as well as detailing...

Livingston County Planning Departement | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Livingston County rolled out their first two ArcGIS Online web application in the Spring of 2020 just as COVID-19 was entering New York State. Taking the forward progress already initiated...

Alan Leidner | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Alan Leidner was instrumental in organizing the “Use of Precision Location Data for COVID Operations” Webinar on August 19th which explored the uses and benefits of precision mapping for contact tracing,...

Erie County Office of GIS | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award The Erie County GIS Team came together to design one of the first live COVID-19 dashboards in NYS. Their dashboard went live on March 19th, 2020 and County Executive Mark Poloncarz showcased it at his...

Gretchen Culp, Ph.D. | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award      Dr. Gretchen Culp is an essential member of the Surveillance and Epidemiology Branch of COVID-19 response within the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Using her mapping skills, Dr....