News and Press
August 4-8, 2008. San Diego, CA. ESA will be at the ESRI Users Conference in San Diego from August 4 - 8th. Please contact us @ 877.ESACORP to schedule an 
appointment to discuss your GIS needs. www.esri.com/uc
May 28 -30, 2008. San Francisco, CA. Society For Prevention Research (www.preventionresearch.org) - ESA and colleagues from WSU and University of Oregon will present on psychosocial analysis and GIS at the 16th Annual SPR Conference - at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center in downtown San Francisco, CA - on Wednesday, May 28th, 1015AM - 1145AM - Session (2-011). Presentation pdf
August 17-20, 2007. San Francisco, CA. ESA and other colleagues present work on psychosocial analysis and GIS at the American Psychological Assocation’s 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA. Sunday, August 19th, 2pm-250pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Level-South Building, Halls ABC Abstract - Poster (3.2mb pdf)
ESA will be at the 2007 ESRI User’s Conference June 17th thru June 21st. Please Contact us to set up an appointment to talk about your GIS needs.
Starting March 2007, ESA is an authorized ESRI business partner. If your organization needs assistance with an ESRI-based system, please contact us here.
ESA will be at the California GIS Conference (www.calgis.org) April 4-6, 2007 in Oakland, CA - California’s annual GIS gathering.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 is Geographic Information Systems Day! Check out the Bay Area Automated Mapping Association’s GIS event @ Wurster Hall (main lobby), UC Berkeley. The event starts at 3pm and runs into the evening. See here for more information on the event schedule and speakers.
August 9, 2006. ESA will present @ ESRI’s user’s conference in San Diego, CA. “Understanding Adolescent Behavior with GIS – Case Study: Portland, Oregon” 3:15pm - 4:30pm - Room 32-A, San Diego Convention Center. Abstract
April 9-12, 2006 in Santa Fe, NM The Analytic Institute of Journalism’s Ver 1.0 Conference - A workshop on public database verification for journalists and social scientists. Erich is presenting on “Explaining neighborhood correlates of adolescent conduct problems in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area: the geo-spatial perspective” Abstract Presentation (pdf)
April 3-5, 2006 in San Francisco, CA - Location Intelligence Conference 2006. The theme: “Profiting from Location Intelligence” The Renaissance Parc 55. http://www.locationintelligence.net/agenda/
October 6, 2005 - 
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July 7, 2005 article in the GIS Monitor - “GIS for emergency response in San Francisco” by Matteo Lucio, GIS Monitor, 07.07.2005. San Francisco, which has a population of about 800,000 and covers about 49 square miles, began an enterprise GIS five years ago, under mayor Willie Brown. Erich Seamon, the city’s Geographic Information Officer, told me that San Francisco’s 65 departments and 27,000 employees were using GIS in “nonstandard” ways…. more news articles
“Security, Privacy and GIS: Changing Perspectives in a Changing World?” (pdf) 10:00am Tuesday, July 25th - 29, ESRI Users Conference, San Diego Convention Center, see abstract. Also: get more materials on this subject here.
GTC West 2005 Presentation on the Bay Area’s regional GIS efforts w/ Carol Ostergren from USGS (pdf)
See Time magazine’s April 18 mapping in cyberspace! (pdf)
April 13, 2005 Enterprise GIS presentation @ Public Technology Institute’s (PTI) 2005 Congress for Local Governments Technology Leadership, April 13-15 in Portland, OR (pdf)
2005 APA National Planning Conference - “Implementing GIS in San Francisco” Tues. 130pm-5pm, March 22, 2005 (pdf)
National GIS Governance presentation @ CalGIS 2005 (March 16-18) Conference (pdf)
“GIS for emergency response in San Francisco” by Matteo Lucio, GIS Monitor (www.gismonitor.com) 07.07.2005. San Francisco, which has a population of about 800,000 and covers about 49 square miles, began an enterprise GIS five years ago, under mayor Willie Brown. Erich Seamon, the city’s Geographic Information Officer, told me that San Francisco’s 65 departments and 27,000 employees were using GIS in “nonstandard” ways..
“SF adopts crime mapping tool” by Dibya Sarkar of www.fcw.com, 12.2.2003. San Francisco recently unveiled a crime mapping analysis tool that police expect will lead to better deployment of resources…
“Tool gives police look at trends” By Ann Bednarz, Network World, 11.24.03. Software being piloted by the San Francisco Police Department will let officers graphically track and analyze crime trends such as the frequency of drug arrests near schools or a rash of auto thefts in a particular neighborhood…..
“San Francisco’s Enterprise GIS: Forward Thinking and Politically Correct ” By: Joe Francica, Directions Magazine, 11.19.03. The City and County of San Francisco’s Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) provides the technology infrastructure for a majority of San Francisco’s 60-plus departments. Many of these departments use geospatial information to plan and coordinate their daily business processes such as real property analysis and emergency services…
“DB2 Helps San Francisco Take Bite Out of Crime ” By Brian Fonseca EWeek 11.19.03 The city of San Francisco will join IBM on Wednesday to unveil CrimeMaps, a new application designed to simplify how local police officers track crime patterns to help alert the public of potential threats in the area…
“City Maps Services with GIS” EWeek July 2003″ By Anne Chen EWeek 07.2003 For Erich Seamon, location is everything. Last year, as most IT organizations were cutting budgets, Seamon, geographic information systems manager for the city and county of San Francisco, was moving forward with a project to integrate the City by the Bay’s geographic information in a standard fashion online. The result: City employees and San Franciscans now have online access to up-to-date geographic information, and this has dramatically increased city departments’ ability to do everything from collecting tax revenues to responding to crimes.
IBM Case Study on City and County of San Francisco’s use of GIS Charged with the mission: “Using technology to better serve the community,” San Francisco’s Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) provides the technology infrastructure for a majority of the city’s 61 departments. Many of these municipal departments use geospatial information–data that represents locations and their relationships to each other–to plan and coordinate their daily business processes such as real property analysis and emergency services. Some city departments relied on paper-driven planning processes to accomplish this work, but have begun to incorporate electronic workflow to aid in planning and analysis. “San Francisco’s municipal departments have increased their abilities to run more efficiently by incorporating location-based information into their city services,” says Erich Seamon, geographic information systems (GIS) manager for the City and County of San Francisco.
” Connecting Disparate Information is the First Step Towards Security” By Erich Seamon. GovWest Magazine. For those in the technology arena, large historic events have a tendency to effect radically how we approach our jobs. To a greater extent, those in government often times are required to re-examine how we do business when societal events come to rise. With the rise in terrorism over the past two years, and its impacts on security, the use of technology has (and will continue) to aid government in many aspects. In particular, efforts that leverage the use of geographic information systems to interconnect disparate information are becoming much more common in the average government employee’s world.