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and evacuation center locations. Throughout the oods, Esri Australia’s
team continuously updated the BCC Flood Map with information fed from
local and state government ofcials and emergency crews on the ground.
Cloud GIS is the key behind this application’s success, because it is a
tightly integrated system of components and content that can be deployed
off premises within a matter of hours, and can be administered remotely.
When a major emergency occurs, GIS professionals would not have the
time or resources to pull existing equipment and software ofine and repur-
pose them to support a single Web application serv