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Esri presented Pinellas County, Florida, with the 2016 Enterprise GIS Award for innovating a smart community governance model that fulfilled county initiatives to build a public GIS with apps that benefit the community. One of those apps used Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) open data to save property owners $5.3 million on National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) premiums. The Pinellas Business Technology Services Board established a group to prioritize and create web GIS apps. Working with the board, the GIS group produced a total of 16 task-driven apps, which make up its public GIS gallery. Tasks included apps for monitoring local crime activity, obtaining zoning information, and researching tax parcel and property valuation information. The board also guided the creation of an open data portal, a self-service hub that allows anyone to map open datasets in the same manner as using the Flood Map Service Center. www.esri.com
