We’re excited to announce that Mike Long, Co-Founder of Spatialty, has received a 2025 Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for his impactful work at CapMetro, Austin’s regional transit agency.

This recognition honors Mike’s leadership in developing a geospatial platform that integrates an extensive range of operational systems using FME and ArcGIS Enterprise. At CapMetro, Mike led efforts to automate and streamline data pipelines between GIS and platforms like:

• GTFS (transit scheduling data)
• OrbCAD (vehicle location and CAD/AVL)
• Swiftly (real-time transit performance and schedule adherence)
• Trapeze (operations and scheduling)
• Jira & ServiceNow (ITSM and incident tracking)
• Socrata (open data platform)
• Snowflake (enterprise data warehouse)
• Hexagon EAM (Enterprise Asset Management)

By bringing data from these systems into ArcGIS Enterprise, Mike enabled spatial context for transit operations, planning, and analysis in ways never before possible at the agency. Through automated FME workflows, these integrations now power real-time dashboards, mobile apps, reporting tools, and long-term planning datasets, all within a consistent & trusted geospatial environment.

This work has drastically reduced the need for manual data wrangling and siloed processes, instead allowing teams across CapMetro to access live, reliable, location-aware data when and where they need it.

The SAG Award reinforces the value of Mike’s approach: combining deep GIS expertise, enterprise automation, and real-world transit experience to unlock the full potential of ArcGIS for public agencies.

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