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Many facility managers know that they need a GIS for their campus but may not know where to begin. This post will look at some recommended steps for implementing a successful campus GIS using the ArcGIS platform when you have little or nothing to start with. If you’re starting from scratch to build your campus GIS, you may have some data to begin with. Or you might just looking to provide management with some budget numbers. If either of these are true, you’ve come to the right place.
In this blog post, we will explore Esri's Winter Weather Operations solution, which provides effective management of fleets, personnel, material tracking, and snow event analysis. Additionally, we will discuss the Winter Weather Outreach Solution, which enables road status communication and facilitates the reporting of snow-related issues
Have you seen our Highway Management Portal? We’ve done three webinars and covered Permitting, Asset Management, and finally, Construction Projects and Road Project Cost Estimator.
Creating Survey123 forms in Survey123 Connect provides access to many options for supercharged forms that streamline the user experience and minimize data entry errors. Calculations for questions using pulldata() function and its various functionalities allow for pre-population of answers, incorporation of advanced logic, external data lookup and other techniques that are not available with standard XLSforms.
How do you feel when you hear the term “Asset Management”?
Is it just the (latest) buzzword for what you’re already doing? On your never-ending list of things to implement? Do you have something started, but it’s not really meeting your needs?
You’re not alone! But there’s good news - with a couple of affordable tools, you can begin building a GIS that will get you managing those assets more efficiently.
Time is critical in the Emergency Response profession. The accuracy of data allows speed and clear communication. For this reason, the North American Emergency Number Association (NENA) has established GIS standards for Address Point data. We will discuss how address points data comes to look as it does via different placement methodologies. Then we’ll look at previously glossed-over subaddressing fields defined by NENA, and how populated subaddress fields can assist responders.
Survey123 Connect offers an array of ways to create powerful and customized forms for collecting data, but learning how to use some of the functionality can be intimidating. In an attempt to reduce the intimidation and spruce up your existing skills, we will review some of the functionality and how it works.
As technology continues to grow and evolve, so should our workflows. Traditionally, permitting involved a paper form that was provided to the applicant in person or by scanning the document and sending an email. Handwritten applications leave room for error, and paper documents can become lost among the hustle and bustle of office life.
Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) is a technology upgrade to the traditional 9-1-1 emergency response system. It aims to improve the speed and efficiency of emergency response by allowing for the transmission of multimedia information (e.g. text, photos, videos) in addition to voice calls. NG9-1-1 also enables the use of internet protocol (IP) networking, which allows for more flexible and reliable communication between emergency call centers and first responders.
There are thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) scattered across the U.S. A quick Google search will provide you with a broad range of estimates ranging from 1,200 to 3,000. As many of these ISP’s are located in rural areas, the demand for broadband services has only increased with more people working from home. So how do these small internet service providers handle customer engagement, maintain high-quality services, share information with other staff, all while still keeping good quality as-built maps of their underground cables?
Looking for some new professional goals for the new year? If you’ve not yet made the move to ArcGIS Pro from ArcMap, may I suggest that you place that on the top of your list? We all know the time is coming where you’ll need to use ArcGIS Pro for most workflows - some of us were early adopters, some reluctant adopters, and some of us are still holding out.
Space planning and management is an important part of any college campus or school district. It helps facility managers ensure that they are optimizing the utilization of their space.
Often, facility spaces become underutilized as we move towards a remote hybrid environment. This can create an optimization problem as these unused areas still require costs such as heating and cooling, IT equipment, and general facility maintenance. Many space planning and maintenance personnel are wrestling with how to best address this issue and still provide optimized space usage across campus.
Coordination with surrounding PSAP territories allows dispatch redundancy and compounds the effectiveness of Next Generation 9-1-1 by establishing a seamless network through agreed upon boundaries, reviewed borderland addresses, and unified schemas. This work requires communication, agreement, and unified action.
Are you new to the ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric and want to map subdivisions? Find your bearings here with these 5 easy steps. First, review the subdivision plat and legal description. Before you jump into your Parcel Fabric and start editing your Land Records, you will want to read and review the subdivision plat. The plat is the legal record filed with the jurisdictional authority (County Recorder of Deeds, etc.) and is the basis for surveying and mapping a property.
ADA compliance is a big issue these days, with many agencies struggling to find resources to address their compliance issues. First and foremost, it is necessary to complete a site assessment of the existing conditions to determine areas that are out of compliance. Once an assessment has been completed, the agency can determine the best course of action to correct non-compliant areas.
What is stopping you from accurately locating all of your assets in the field and using that information to make informed, data driven decisions - Cost? Time? Outdated equipment or software?
Cloudpoint has been assisting clients with asset data collection for more than a decade, all while watching the technology continually improve and becoming more affordable at the same time. Gone are the days that a smaller organization would not be able to consider reaping the benefits of GIS. With these advancements we are able to bring GIS to any organization with an affordable, easy-to-use, mobile and collaborative environment.
When setting out to use GIS for Campus or Facility management, it is important to understand what type of data tracking challenges are currently present in your organization. This gets increasingly important to determine as organizations grow larger, start to create more data, and compile more historic records. These challenges typically revolve around the subject of modern-day data storage, but include the following:
The following videos will walk you through creating and saving trace configurations, publishing them in a web map, and consuming them in ArcGIS Experience Builder with the new beta Utility Network Trace widget. We will also look at how you can incorporate additional widgets, namely the Text and Table widgets, to display and export trace results.
