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GIS firm Max Powers pitches data dashboards to San Juan EDC
Summary
Max Powers mapping and consulting services demonstrated interactive GIS dashboards it says can help the San Juan Economic Development Corporation target investment, track capital projects and centralize small-business resources. Board members asked about ownership, traffic and crash data and possible further presentations to the city.
Max Powers mapping and consulting services presented interactive geographic-information-system (GIS) tools to the San Juan Economic Development Corporation during the meeting, describing dashboards and web maps intended to support business recruitment, project planning and public engagement.
The presentation, led by Max Powers, said the firm builds “data driven dashboards and web maps tailored for San Juan EDC,” including business-and-investment opportunity dashboards searchable by zoning, acreage and price; an infrastructure and capital-improvement map to show active and planned projects with budget status and timelines; an economic-development performance dashboard; a small-business resource hub; and a community-engagement map for resident surveys and comments.
Why it matters: EDC members said those tools could streamline outreach to developers, make interdepartmental coordination more transparent and collect the kinds of traffic, demographic and tax data potential investors typically request.
Powers described the company as a small team “with over 50 years of combined experience” and said the firm operates in the Rio Grande Valley and in Austin and Houston. He told the EDC the work can be tailored to internal use or published externally for constituents and potential developers.
“Traffic count and also, crash data. It's very important,” Powers said when asked about data types his dashboards can display. He also told the board the EDC could own an ArcGIS Online account set up for the city: “If you guys decided not to use this anymore … it's your product. It's, you know, you own it.”
Board members asked for examples of previous work; Powers cited projects with the City of Mission, the City of Austin, San Antonio and a field inspection application used by a fire department. Members discussed whether the EDC or the city planning department would be the better client for the product and suggested a follow-up presentation to the city or to planning staff.
No formal action was taken at the meeting. Board members said they would consider arranging additional demonstrations and coordinate a presentation to the city so elected officials and planning staff could evaluate whether to pursue a contract.
