some ideas on how mapping services contributes towards building Toronto from the Ground UP!

1. What Makes a City Great
Helping to strengthen the Foundations from the Ground UP!
The following are a few ideas and suggestions where Mapping Services may help:
Making a safer city safer:
Continue mapping support for police services, (patrol district mapping), continue
priority demand mapping from front line offices at the front counter
• Since police work is often confidential, provide mapping staff on a need to
know basis.
• Provide detailed mapping for the 13 priority neighbours
• Provide detailed base mapping support the anti-viloence intervention
strategy
• Using the 13 priority neighbourhood maps, ensure that all mapping is up to
date in these areas.
• Consider training, and hiring “youth from at risk communities” in utility
mapping, topo mapping, update to TCL/OAR
• Approach community colleges, adult co-op centres, and offer to teach “youth
from at risk communities” CAD/GIS skills
A strong City with a strong Economy:
• support BIA mapping and analysis.
• Expand geocoding services, clean up of user address for others, teach others
how to create a better geocodeable address.
• Ensure that SIC and other codes are geocoded and available for economic
analysis purposes, (this might already be done by others?)
• Continue investigating the assessment roll attribute database, matched
against our parcel base, topo base, utility base, and image base to improve
appraisal evaluations and find more taxable properties that are currently not
be taxed or taxed incorrectly
• Participate on the Mayors “Team Toronto” trade missions to promote
Toronto as a place of business and to demonstrate geospatial technologies
supporting Toronto’s knowledge-based industries
• Continue utility mapping and assembly of as-builts to support and protect
the major investments in our infrastructure
Efficiency and Accountability at City Hall, p.6
• 311 hotline – ensure that mapping products and services are correctly
identified on 311 and on AccessToronto and ensure that contact lists are up
to date.
• Continue writing papers, doing presentations, and updating “News” on the
city website on a regular basis to ensure that the Mapping Brand is
recognized.
A Prosperous Toronto:

2. • Support initiatives to ensure we get all the GST rebate owing from the
federal government
• National Transit Strategy- continue to update TCL
A Clean, green, and beautiful city :
• Suggest that an application be developed, ( arcpad ) applications for
litter pickers, and by-law inforcement officers,
• Continue support the foresty regeneration program, provide arcpad
applications, provide ESMmapping to support their initiatives
• 17.6 million will be invested at $100k per ward for neighbourhood
beautification. Work with foresty and other by providing mapping
• map and continue supporting graffiti eradication and prevention
program
• Keep ravine by-law in a state of good repair