As the movement away from “car-only” design continues and more communities integrate Complete Streets planning and design, there is a challenge to collect the detailed data required to scale up from community engagement to actionable, biddable projects. The Town of Barrington, RI recently completed a comprehensive field assessment of its roadways using crowd-sourced data collected via a Survey123 webform. The project provided cost-effective data collection, but also provided public education and coalition building for increased advocacy and implementability. The fieldwork also resulted in Level of User Stress Assessment leading to prioritized capital investment.
The Survey123 form empowers trained volunteers to gather critical data about roadway characteristics, contributing to improved identification of gaps in existing transportation networks and prioritizing projects to improve multimodal transportation infrastructure. Volunteers used the form to record information on:
•Roadway features: Number of lanes, presence and condition of sidewalks and bike lanes •Traffic conditions: Vehicle speed, traffic volume •User experience: Perceived stress levels for cyclists and pedestrians
This crowdsourced data, aided by intentional cartographic choices for public engagement, provides valuable insights into the safety and usability of roadways for diverse users. By identifying areas with high stress levels or inadequate facilities, municipal planners and transportation authorities can prioritize improvements, ultimately creating safer and more accessible streets for residents and taxpayers.
In May of 2023, we launched the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas – only the third statewide zoning atlas in a nationwide movement to create a National Zoning Atlas. After wrangling zoning maps and regulations for 269 jurisdictions, the data had to be stitched together into a cohesive statewide zoning layer and analyzed to make some (hopefully) insightful conclusions on zoning’s effect on housing in NH. One of the challenges was how best to tell the story of zoning in NH (spoiler, using a StoryMap), and how to build an interactive viewer for users to explore the data in a meaningful way (spoiler 2 – Experience Builder). Join me for a behind the scenes look at putting the StoryMap and NH atlas together and brief demo of the final product, plus an update on planned improvements moving forward.
Rick is the sole proprietor of Upstate GIS, an independent GIS and cartography business located in rural upstate NY. Many of Rick's projects focus on natural and agricultural resources planning and protection. The scale of Rick's projects range from creating a custom hand drawn/digital... Read More →
Wednesday October 30, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Green Mountain C
Parcel data management can be an efficient and enjoyable process with ArcGIS Pro! This presentation will demonstrate using ArcGIS Pro and esri's Parcel Fabric to work with land record datasets effectively. Workflows and tips & tricks will be discussed for two distinct approaches: (1) use of a simple geodatabase model and (2) use of the parcel fabric. Topology and attribute rules will be covered, as well as using a map series to produce tax maps. The presentation will also cover esri’s latest Parcel Fabric record-driven workflows, its flexible data model, automatic history, and tools unique to the Parcel Fabric dataset. The continued improvements to ArcGIS Pro have made custom tax mapping tools obsolete. Find out why ArcGIS Pro is becoming the standard for land-data management!
