In late December 1990, Lee County Florida selected McDonnell Douglas (acquired by EDS at the close of project term) to develop an integrated Infrastructure Concurrency Management System. The heart of this turnkey scope of services was the development and implementation of a spatial database and modeling environment that would permit Lee County to effectively manage and plan its Land Records, Land Usage, and Infrastructure assets well into the year 2010.

Lee County, Florida covers approximately 750 square miles and contains over 420,000 property parcels. It has a permanent population of over 340,000. During the winter season it has a tremendous influx of tourism and is the retirement community for an ever increasing number of elderly people. Lee County is reported to be one of the four largest growing counties in Florida. The 1990 Lee County Development Plan has projected that the county's permanent population will almost double in the next twenty years. These growth factors have negatively affected the County's ability to provide public services and facilities that must keep pace with the demand for development.

Under a Florida State mandate implement the Concurrency Management System applications, McDonnell Douglas was faced with the critical challenge of converting the County's existing 3700 Intergraph maps and associative 420,000 property parcel data files into a topologically structured environment in a "fast-track" manner, i.e., Ten Thousand Dollars Liquidated Damages per Week. To accomplish the conversion of the entire County in a 9 month period, McDonnell Douglas established a 3-way internal management and technical Implementation Team consisting of MD-St. Louis, MD-Denver, and MD-Cambridge, England, in association with the GDS GIS Consulting & Implementation Services of Systems Design, Inc. (SDI), Omaha, NE.

Crucial to the overall success of the system implementation was the institution of both project and technical management teams comprised of key personnel from the three participating MD organizations, Systems Design, and the end client, Lee County MIS. As a minimum, team coordination meetings were held onsite in Fort Myers on a monthly basis, with teleconference meetings scheduled on a weekly basis. Over the nine month course of work, 5 members of Systems Design's staff spent a combined total of 5 months onsite at Lee County performing a full range of technical GIS and project management activities.

Critical to the technical success of the project was the massive translation and restructuring of over 300 Megabytes of Intergraph DGN & Data files containing over 5 years of intensive county-wide digitized base map information. Towards this end, Systems Design developed a series of specialized automated and interactive processing routines to (1) sparse and recombine Intergraph files, layers, data, and entity features, (2) analyze and record data inconsistencies per team-established rule-sets, (3) perform state plane datum transformations, and (4) prepare existing IG feature graphics for polygonal and network structuring via squaring/alignment, edge matching, under/overshoot correction, vertices reduction, and line/arc normalization.

Working within a constrained 9 month period required strict adherence to a phased Milestone Schedule instituted by the project team. This Schedule was comprised of eight overlapping Phases consisting of a 36 sq. mi. pilot, file translation, topological structuring of parcel, zoning, water, sewer, and roadway systems; in addition to system installation, configuration, and training at Lee County MIS in Fort Myers, FL.

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