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Community awareness management systems and methods

  • US 9,984,170 B2
  • Filed: 08/24/2006
  • Issued: 05/29/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing community awareness data for a community awareness program (CAP), the CAP providing information associated with at least one asset for the CAP to at least one contact for the CAP, comprising:

  • using a data management system to manage storage and retrieval of geospatial data organized as a spatial data layer for an area covered by the CAP and Community Awareness Management (CAM) data organized in a CAM dataset comprising CAP asset data for at least one CAP asset and audience data for the at least one contact for the CAP to which at least some of the information associated with the at least one CAP asset is provided, wherein a configuration file contains a configuration section for the spatial data layer and a configuration section for the CAM dataset, wherein each configuration section has a link section that identifies corresponding attributes in the spatial data layer and the CAM dataset for use in linking the spatial data layer to the CAM dataset;

    using a spatial management system to generate at least one query for the CAM data and the geospatial data to the data management system, receive selected CAM data and selected geospatial data from the data management system in response to the at least one query, dynamically link the selected CAM data and the selected geospatial data at run-time using the configuration file to create spatially linked data, generate map data using the spatially linked data, the map data identifying at least a portion of the area covered by the CAP, the at least one contact within the CAP area portion to which at least some of the information associated with the at least one CAP asset is provided, and at least one member of a first group consisting of at least one CAP asset portion within the CAP area portion, at least one interest area portion for the at least one CAP asset within the CAP area portion, and at least one buffer area portion for the at least one CAP asset within the CAP area portion, link a document to any of the at least one CAP asset and at least one audience member with a document link, and returning the result to the program management system;

    using a program management system to receive an input, initiating the at least one query to the spatial management system based on the input, receiving the map data and the selected CAM data from the spatial management system, and generating at least one result of the query, the at least one result comprising the map data and the selected CAM data, the selected CAM data comprising at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least some of the CAP asset data for the at least one CAP asset and at least some of the audience data for the at least one contact to which the at least some information associated with the at least one CAP asset is provided; and

    using a user interface to receive the input, transmit the input to the program management system, receive the at least one result from the program management system, and generate the at least one result for display, wherein the user interface includes

         1) a tools frame with a search tool, a filter tool, and a view tool,

         2) a map frame,

         3) an overview map,

         4) a map legend, and

         5) a feature display frame with utilities for selected features, linked features, linked documents, journal management, and audience management, and, in response to selection of the document link, display the document.

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