Canyon Logics provides comprehensive solutions to help municipalities efficiently manage their assets, ensuring optimal performance and long-term value. Our services include:
- Preparing Operational Current Environment and Needs Assessment Studies – Specializing in GIS, Asset Management, and Maintenance Management operations.
- Developing Strategies and Implementation Plans and helping secure support and approval from Councils, Boards of Directors, funding sources, senior management, managers, and staff.
- Project Management, as the Project Manager or in an advisory capacity.
- Setting up and supporting Technology Environments.
- Computers, servers, data and application licensing, field data collection tools, security, backups, communications, agreements, and support.
- Establishing standards, policies, and procedures based on functional requirements, resource capacity, and budget.
- Working with clients to capture, update, and maintain spatial and tabular data to meet functional requirements.
- Parcels – Legal inventory, parcel boundary interpretation, unique ID system.
- Buildings – Septic, well, fuel storage, civic address.
- Roads – Road surface, signs, culverts, barriers, bridges, condition, NG-911.
- Water – Distribution and plant components.
- Wastewater – Collection and plant components.
- Fleet – Inventory.
- Customizing applications for field and desktop data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Ensuring that the information used to produce Asset Management Plans is current and accurate and costs less to produce.
- Implementing a sustainable environment by providing operational specific training and support a cost efficient, functional and sustainable technology and operational environment.
Projects
Read about some of our past work with municipalities below:
West Parry Sound Geography Network – Township of The Archipelago
Enterprise GIS Implementation
- Created and implemented the vision and strategy for a partnership between the Town of Parry Sound, the townships of The Archipelago, Carling, Seguin, McKellar, the municipalities of McDougall and Whitestone for the purpose of sharing in the cost of implementing and maintaining an integrated Geographic Information System.
- Defined, analyzed and documented business and functional requirements
- Project management of the implementation of an integrated and shared GIS environment.
- Developed standards and procedures for, and automated parcel fabric, road center line, and planning data, integrating data with other spatial and tabular datasets, such as Teranet and Assessment Parcel data, Ontario Base Mapping, and Ontario Road Network.
- Developed and delivered custom technology and business process training.
- Managed the development of a web-based GIS application to facilitate the dissemination and analysis of information internally by each partner, between partners and to the public.
- Assessed and recommended business process and data improvements to ensure accurate and current municipal information was integrated in a timely manner with Dispatch / Emergency Management 911 Call Centre partners, which included Ontario Provincial Police, Ministry of Health and the Provincial Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange.
City of Barrie
Engineering Records Scanning
- Scanned the City of Barrie’s 10,000 plus engineering drawings, developing data capture standards and capturing corresponding related data reducing the City’s cost of managing engineering drawing data and providing the basis for creating a GIS based piped infrastructure database.
Piped Infrastructure Data Capture
- Automated the City of Barrie’s piped infrastructure data, developing a functional and sustainable GIS based data model which will enable the City to cost efficiently manage and analyze their water, wastewater and drainage infrastructure. The project included developing an effective data model, positioning all scanned as-built engineering drawings relative the City’s orthographic imagery and then capturing spatial features, such as pipes, values, hydrants and manholes and all related attribute information, such as date installed, diameter, type and contract number in a GIS environment.
City of Greater Sudbury
Enterprise GIS Solution
- Designed, developed and implemented an Enterprise GIS solution integrating municipal business data with geographic data providing stakeholders access to the data through desktop and Intranet/Internet GIS tools. This project included:
- Analysis of the City’s GIS business requirements and Systems Infrastructure design and the recommendation of a GIS application configuration that will meet the City requirements.
- Implementation and integration of the GIS technology infrastructure
- Data acquisition, conversion, quality assurance, and capture.
- Survey document database (scanned and positioned survey documents, data captured from survey documents where required)
- Land use Regulations (Official Plan and zoning geographic data)
- Development Activity (proposed and draft approved plans of subdivision – captured through scanning draft plans and georeferencing)
- Address Points (address point data model with address points positioned to reflect the existence of structures/buildings)
- Providing operational specific training on the use and administration of the Enterprise GIS.
Survey Document Automation
- Captured the City’s survey and engineering drawings and implement a Web based document search and viewing application. The project consisted of reviewing and enhancing the City’s existing digital document records to incorporate into the Web based search and viewing application, assessing cost benefits, developing scan document standards and scanning over 30,000 documents. As a result of the project the City reduced their storage needs and costs, improved corporate access to survey documents, and implemented a secure backup of their records.
Town of Oakville
Asset Management GIS Integration and Analyses
- Defined, analyzed and documented business and reporting requirements to reconcile the Town’s property records against other public and private sector records to meet Provincial Financial Accounting (PSAB) reporting requirements.
- Produce an accurate Town Owned Lands Inventory by assessing and reconciling information from existing databases, including but not limited to POLARIS Owner reports and MPAC assessment records to ensure the accuracy of the reconciled data,
- Develop an automated method in Microsoft Access for reconciliation of tabular and spatial property records.
- Integrated the Town’s corporate ESRI GIS environment with Corporate Asset Management Solution to improve the quality and functionality of Town’s real estate asset information to produce a accurate Town Owned Lands Inventory
City of Kingston
GIS Operational Plan and Business Case for Change White Paper
- Analyzed the City’s corporate strategies and council direction against Geographic Information Services Department current operations and goals and made corporate and departmental resource and open data policy recommendations. The resulting recommendations helped the corporation achieve greater value form their investment in GIS and create an open and transparent environment improving the quality and accessibility of information and corporate accountability to its citizens.
Business Workflow Analysis
- Identified, analyzed and documented business requirements and made recommendations to improve the information workflow between the City’s Information Technology Department Geographic Information System and Engineering and Planning Departments.
- The reengineered workflow improved the timely access to information; reduced of duplication of effort; improved data quality; improved decision making and provided greater confidence in information create by the City for internal and public consumption.