• Data conversion

• Programming & applications development

• Data acquisition

• Vectorizing

• Scanning

• GIS/CAMA Integration

• GIS software

• GIS consulting

• Training

• Hardware configuration

• Web Services

Data Conversion

R&S Digital staff are expert at data conversion to and from various operating systems and database management systems--spatial and non-spatial. We are skilled at managing production for projects large and small while maintaining high quality standards.

During the conversion process, we develop all required coverages or themes for compliance with your system design. The data are partitioned into layers in accordance with project goals. This includes CAD features, text features, parcel polygons, land surveys, and rights-of-way. We also incorporate a mix of spatial and non-spatial data to target your GIS to your exact objectives. Furthermore, we can provide your GIS in one or more of any industry standard formats.

R&S Digital provides a range of efficient and accurate
methods for data conversion. We offer a complete service
including precision COGO encoding, board digitizing
and raster to vector techniques.

Programming / applications development

We provide a full range of programming with expert programmers fluent in all languages common to the industry including AML scripting, MDL programming, AutoLISP, Visual BASIC, and C++.

We have demonstrated expertise in the development of custom applications within the tax / parcel mapping industry. For instance, our custom GIS tax mapping module, OSU, enables users to convert, query, and perform various analysis functions that are specific to the tax mapping specialty. Other examples include custom 911 applications, a pavement management system, along with various data validation tools. We most frequently develop numerous special purpose tools for each individual project, department, and user.

As part of our full service capability, R&S Digital is a single resource for comprehensive data acquisition services including surveying, aerial photography, and GPS section grid development.

We also handle all necessary scheduling, incorporation of the appropriate coordinate system, and registration of these data to your GIS. The sophistication and variety of our data acquisition services demonstrates our total commitment to every phase of GIS production.

We provide the most efficient and accurate methods available for converting data via precision COGO encoding and board digitizing. Raster to vector methodologies are also available. The method used varies with our pragmatic approach -- depending and defined by our client's project requirements. Factors including time scheduling budget and resolution requirements always influence the methodology choice. Many projects will also use a combination of these techniques.

From tens to tens of thousands of existing documents, R&S Digital Services' large format scanners, and experienced staff provide high quality digital reference data from your existing physical archive. Each scan is suitable for use in a number of processes including autovectorizing, map registration, or on-line document retrieval systems.

For instance, document retrieval systems can be provided to all project team members. Intelligent source document libraries can be quickly accessed and referenced on-line by multiple users. R&S Digital libraries are fully cross-referenced and indexed to provide a document retrieval system that is efficient, fast, and accurate. This facilitates precision distance and bearing data encoding via COGO-- the most accurate and robust method available.

Although we are an ESRI business partner, we support virtually all advanced GIS platforms. Furthermore, we are experienced in creating custom applications aimed at providing our clients with the tools necessary to exploit the full power of GIS.

Because we work to maintain OPEN GIS DATA, we leave the platform open to you. You choose the software complement that most effectively meets your needs. We assure you that the data we provide will be fully compatible with your chosen GIS or mapping application.

R&S Digital is a single resource for comprehensive
data acquisition services including surveying, aerial
photography, and GPS section grid development.

R&S Digital can provide your organization with a complete turnkey project. We can provide everything you need from the needs analysis and implementation plan to customized user commands to serving up your maps and data on the internet.

Our consulting approach begins with getting to know how your organization works and what you need to accomplish with GIS. Our proposed solutions are then custom tailored to meet the needs of your organization to help your decision-makers understand where things are and why.

Learn from the experts. We will teach you any desired phase of the GIS mapping process including data preparation, plat construction, cadastral assembly, and output to specified data formats. R&S Digital training is an effective and economical extension to R&S Digital's design and implementation services. Our training will enable your company to more effectively manage, develop, and maintain your own GIS.

In addition to providing basic and advanced training in digital mapping and GIS, R&S Digital is proud to employ authorized ArcView instructors. The ESRI training program is one of the best ways to develop and enhance your GIS skills, and we can teach those skills at our training site or yours.

 

We regularly install and maintain numerous high performance UNIX and NT based computer networks for use with GIS. We can specify hardware system topologies that are not only fully compliant with your GIS, they also provide sufficient memory , CPU, and I/O resources that are appropriate to each team member's task--and the project as a whole.

We work every day with distributed work groups and are familiar with the latest developments in LAN and WAN technologies. We sell and service a extensive selection of computers, peripherals, plotters, and scanners for use with your GIS.