CalGIS 19th Annual California Conference - April 15 - 17th

Interwest is a proud sponsor of the CalGIS Conference this week in Long Beach.  GIS Manager Steve Gay and GIS Analyst Brad Findlay are attending and hope to see you there!  

Ronnie Richards presenting at the Sacramento GIS User Group May 14th 9am - 12pm

Senior GIS Analyst Ronnie Richards is presenting at the Sacramento GIS User Group on May 14th.

He will be discussing Relational Editing using Attribute Assistant in ArcGIS Desktop.

More details about the User Group can be found here.

URISA News

Interwest is proud to announce GIS Analyst Jason Latoski has been elected to the Northern California URISA Board.  Congratulations Jason!

Interwest will be at the URISA Cal GIS Conference April 15 - 17 in Long Beach.  Hope to see you there!

GIS ADA Compliance Curb Ramp Project

Interwest’s GIS Team created an ArcGIS Online application that was used in the field to collect individual curb ramp location attribute information.  The goal of the project was to create an improvement plan for the City of Bell to repair curb ramps over several fiscal years depending on priority. The plan was used to help the city with its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance efforts.

The GIS team met with City of Bell staff to determine a list of attributes required for the project, created a shell geodatabase with these attributes in ArcGIS Server to facilitate direct live edits into the city production data set, and brought the geodatabases together with aerial photos provided by Esri’s Bing Basemaps.  The GIS team systematically reviewed the entire city, creating a point location for each curb ramp, then created an ArcGIS Online application to be used in the field for data collection.

A field inspector visited each location and updated the condition of the curb ramps using ArcGIS Online on a 3G enabled Apple iPad.  These updates were available in real time to GIS staff at the office.

After the data collection phase was complete, the GIS team worked with project engineers to determine location priorities such as high traffic areas and physical condition of the curb ramp. After all the priorities were determined a Map Series was made to display these priorities and create an improvement plan across several fiscal years.

The data was brought into ArcMap to create maps for a public meeting to showcase the city's plans for future ramp improvements.  An ADA Transition plan was created for each fiscal year; additional maps were created to show the public the plans for the current year.


Contact us today to find out how Interwest Consulting Group's GIS Team can help your public agency use GIS in your ADA Compliance efforts.

ArcGIS Online Presentation Slides

Steve Gay and Jason Latoski of the Interwest GIS team gave a presentation at the November Sacramento GIS User Group on several of the ways Interwest has helped clients implement ArcGIS Online.

You can view the presentation online here.  

All 4 of the presentations are available on the Sac GIS UG Blog here.

Join Us: ArcGIS Online Presentation Nov 27th

Join us for the Sacramento User Group on November 27th -  Interwest Consulting Group is doing a presentation on ArcGIS Online.  More details about this and other presentations can be found on the Sacramento Area GIS User Group Blog:

http://sacramentogis.blogspot.com/2012/10/announcing-presenters-for-nov-27th-user.html

For more information contact:

Bob Earle

(916) 798-8174

bearle@interwestgrp.com

Using GIS in Disaster Recovery

When a tornado touched down in SE Elk Grove, CA on October 22nd, Interwest Consulting Group's GIS Team at the City of Elk Grove grabbed their iPads with ArcGIS Online and headed into the field.  Working with the city's Emergency Operations Manager, Building Department and Code Enforcement Staff the team collected damage assessment data.

GIS team members surveyed the damage first hand in the field, inputting the damage location point, and updating custom fields to record the damage type and status of the clean-up efforts.  

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View the public facing version live here!

Using Esri's ArcGIS Online allowed the team members back at the office to receive live updates of the damage.  

The ArcGIS Online application makes it easy for team members to update the storm clean-up efforts via their phones and tablets in the field as residents begin to rebuild their fences and repair their homes and gardens.

Interested in using GIS on mobile devices in storm management and disaster recovery efforts?  Contact the GIS Team at Interwest Consulting Group to get started: http://www.interwestgrp.com/serv-gis.php