The document discusses how three local governments - Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Lake County, Florida; and Cabarrus County, North Carolina - were able to quickly implement mapping applications using configurable templates from Esri's ArcGIS for Local Government resource center rather than developing applications from scratch. Fort Lauderdale replaced an aging parks and recreation application in a week. Lake County created a public services application in under a week. The templates allow local governments to expand services faster and at lower cost compared to custom development.