gis in the miami valley region

GIS in the Miami Valley Region – Where We Are and Where We Are Going

Miami Valley Planning & Zoning Workshop

December 2, 2016

A forum and resource where the Board of Directors identifies priorities and develops public policy and collaborative strategies to improve quality of life throughout the Miami Valley Region

Major Areas of Concentration

• Transportation Planning

• Regional Planning

• Environmental Planning

MVRPC GIS

• Provide a vital operating function in conducting regional planning activities

• Play a leadership role offering data and expertise to local jurisdictions and the general public

Today’s Topics:

• 2015 GIS Needs Assessment • Recreational Asset Inventory and Map • New/Updated Regional GIS Layers • New Service Focused Projects • GIS Training • What’s Next

GIS Needs Assessment: BACKGROUND

• PURPOSE

– Identify how GIS is used in the Miami Valley Region and better understand various needs that exist at the local and regional level

• SURVEY

– First survey was conducted between May 6, 2015 – May 22, 2015 and the follow-up survey was conducted between July 7, 2015 – July 21, 2015

– Each survey was sent out directly to 126 recipients (GIS professionals and/or administrators in the local jurisdictions and other regional organizations) with additional promotion to Southwest Ohio GIS Users Group members

– A total of 64 participants during the first survey and 45 participants during the follow-up survey

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MVRPC conducted a regional GIS needs assessment this past summer on two main topics. 1) the use of GIS and 2) data related issues, such as data types, data dissemination methods, and, data sharing efforts. With those two topics, the purpose of this assessment was to identify how GIS is used in the region and to better understand various needs at the local and regional level.

CURRENT GIS USERS

Yes: 94%

No: 6%

Does your organization

currently use GIS?

90%

17%

8%

ESRI/ArcGIS

AutoCAD

Intergraph, Maptitude,and Smallworld

What software do you use?

CURRENT GIS USERS

Yes: 94%

No: 6%

Does your organization

currently use GIS?

IN THE FUTURE, WE ANTICIPATE …

•Using Mobile Technology •Using Web Technology •More Data Inventory •More Data Analysis •Get More Training

PUBLIC GIS DATA INTERESTS

What geographic information is requested that you can’t provide?

• Zoning at the Township level • Utility Information • Socioeconomic information at the Community

and Sub-Community levels

8%

13%

13%

17%

23%

53%

55%

72%

Other

Parks/Open Space data

Asset/Inventory data

Socioeconomic data

Public Works data

Utility data

Zoning data

Parcel/Land data

What GIS data are most often requested from the public?

Other includes: Floodplain Data, Water Resource Data, and Topographic Data

Other includes: FTP, Hard Copy, and No Capacity

MAP APPS ON THE WEB

Are there any other mapping application(s) that your organization is interested in pursuing in the future?

• Business Directory • Parks • Tableau • Emergency Management Information • Infrastructure • Future Land Use • Asset Management

NO MAP APPS ON THE WEB

ARCGIS ONLINE USERS

Other includes: • Transportation Data • Fire Defense Zones • Fiber Networks • Water Resources

NO ARCGIS ONLINE USERS

Yes 74%

No 26%

Are you interested in using ArcGIS Online for data sharing?

PROJECT IDEAS

• Parcel/Land Data Inventory – Zoning – Future Land Use – Vacancies – Brownfields – 3D Buildings

• Asset Data Inventory

– Utilities (water, sewer, oil, gas, electric, gas, cable, etc)

– Community Point of Interest and Assets

– Recreational Amenities – Emergency Management

Do you have any ideas or suggestions on what project(s) our region should pursue?

• Socioeconomic Data Inventory – Census Demographic

information at the Community and Sub-Community levels

– Business Directory • Others

– Training (Desktop, Data Analysis, Census Data, and ArcGIS Online, etc)

– Data Resource Catalog (listing of who has what data)

– Database Standardization

• Project 1: Zoning and Land Use

• Project 2: Demographic Data Analysis in GIS

• Project 3: Professional Training Program

• Project 4: Regional Asset Inventory

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October 2015 – Project Idea discussion with SWOGIS Steering Committee January 2016 – Project Proposals to SWOGIS Steering Committee

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April 2016 – Project Proposals to SWOGIS members

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PROJECT IDEAS: PRIORITY RANKING

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Garnered some support but was not the most popular project.

Examines our Region’s recreational open spaces that includes:

– General outdoor recreation areas,

– Natural environment protection areas, and

– Natural environment recreation areas

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However, it was at represented a unique opportunity for us at MVRPC to tackle. We were at the cross roads of a few exciting plans. One was the Miami Conservancy District’s Riverfront Corridor Plan, which had begun to try to develop more and get more people out to the Miami Valley river systems. Another was the recently completed Open Space Plan, which came with a shiny new updated open space inventory database. The last project that was nearly completed was the Recreational Open Space Regional Profile, which highlighted some salient facts about recreational opportunities in the area.

Why a Recreational Asset Map?

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We have existing quality paper and interactive maps out there, but for specific activities The cities in our Region do a nice job of trying to show what kinds of assets they have to offer, but it is mostly in a static format, or obviously just limited to their borders. But if I want to go canoeing, I don’t necessarily care what jurisdiction the canoe liveries are in, just where they are and how close to me. Google is always a good choice, but I have to put in the right search term, and it still misses a lot of the smaller activities I’d be interested in, or algorithm is hit and miss about what pops up. We wanted to create a map that had the REGION’s assets in it, that was interactive, not limited to a specific city, and we wanted people to be able to search for more than one recreational activity at a time.

Our Goal:

• Provide a simple, intuitive and easy to use interface for the casual user to retrieve information quickly about the whereabouts of different amenities in the Region.

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The Goal of building the Recreational Asset map application would be

Recreational Asset Inventory and Map

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The Recreational Asset Map features many of our Region’s recreational assets and their amenities in an 8-county Region including: Butler, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, and Warren counties. The Recreational Asset Map was developed in partnership with the Southwest Ohio GIS Users Group (SWOGIS) and the Miami Conservancy District (MCD). The data was compiled from many different sources, including MVRPC’s 2015 Open Space Inventory, the Miami Conservancy District, and many other organizations that provided information. Map (demo?)

• Art or Historical

• Small Park • Large Park

Types of Assets Found

• School or Library • Small Park

• Large Park

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What are the types of assets we collected? Who did we contact to get data? We started with our existing Open Space database to put together a large amount of points. This could not be a singular effort to edit and add.

BEFORE:

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Types of feedback we got, and some of the changes we tried to put in. What our priorities were in regards to the functionalities – query versus filter, fewer clicks for users, easy user interface After initial welcome splash screen, application opens on “Find a Function” for user to automatically narrow down by amenity type. Amenities are portrayed as either outdoor recreation, schools or cultural features for initial map. From here, users may query a specific kind of amenity broken out into further refined categories (e.g. ball fields). Or search for what amenities are near a specific address. Each amenity, when selected, will depict the attributes of location, and web address. (Lat Long also considered?) We examined several ESRI provided templates, and a couple types seemed the most promising., but in the end, one’s search requirements were too restrictive and error-prone. Another template, called Local Perspective seemed to provide good functionality, but the actual user interface was not intuitive and provided too much extraneous data for what we were looking for. We were placing fewer clicks for users, easy user interface as one of our top priorities. We released the beta version in April of this year, and sent out an email blast to about 200 organizations and jurisdictions in the region with the link and asked for both data and feedback about the mapping application. We also sent one to our partners encouraging them to share the map and send us feedback. We heard 50 responses, which was pretty good. They came by both mail and email, fax and phone.

AFTER

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When all was said and done, we compiled over 2000 individual Regional asset locations What our priorities were in regards to the functionalities – query versus filter, fewer clicks for users, easy user interface What design considerations went into the final version – mobile friendly, using existing template with minor customization

Fishing

Activities in the Filter Query (an Incomplete List)

Theater

Picnic Shelter Bike Attraction

Playground

Canoeing

Trails

Historic Site

Museum

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Within the Filter by Type of Activity, there are nearly 30 types of activities. Here is an incomplete list of some of them. One of the things we did during the time between the beta launch and the running application is to regroup the activities in a way that made sense. We also eliminated some functions or lumped them into other categories (walking and hiking trails, for example)

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Now that I’ve given a few run throughs, lets see if we break the internet and try to do a demo

http://mvrpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=62c338c756a548dbacc7425bfb4ca39d

Wish List for Improvements:

Weather:

Air Quality:

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There are other upgrades we are hoping to look into in the future. We wold like to increase user information about the Region. Since we cover assets in 8 counties, the weather in Darke county isn’t necessarily the same as in Hamilton County. A weather widget would be a nice addition. Even more in line with MVRPCs responsibilities, we’d like to at some point incorporate an air quality widget, so those with allergies or asthma could be better prepared when venturing out. Additionally, while the interface is improved, we’d like to make it cleaner and easier to use—but we are at the mercy of ESRI for that one. Since we have time, I will try to see if we can’t do a quick demo.

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2nd most popular, 2nd highest priority

Updated Regional Layers

• Updated generalized zoning information

• Updated information on jurisdictional adopted land use plans

• An updated Regional Open Space Inventory

Updated Regional Layers: Zoning

Jurisdictional zoning was compiled from across the Region and generalized into several useful categories, updating a layer from 2008

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5+ counties

Updated Regional Layers: Adopted Land Use

Adopted land use plans for jurisdictions across the Region were consulted and compiled into an updated version of a layer previously created in 2009

Updated Regional Layers: Open Space

The Regional Open Space Inventory, first created in 2005, was updated throughout 2015 in conjunction with the agency’s recently published Open Space Plan

MVRPC's Map Gallery

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All new stuff available on map gallery as maps, layers, kml Look for new, improved Map Gallery in 2017

http://www.mvrpc.org/mapgallery/

New Online Mapping Applications

• Montgomery County Land Bank Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP)

• City of Trotwood Zoning

Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP) - Provides easy access to common demographic information for grant applications

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Purpose – To provide an easy access to common data points at 3 different geographic levels that would assist jurisdictions with their application MotCo only, origin was city of Dayton

Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP) - Data available at the Block Group, Jurisdiction and County levels

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Sample of demog data

City of Trotwood - Needed better access to their zoning information

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Similar to riverside app created earlier

City of Trotwood - Pulled in additional layers from county sources

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Addtl layers

City of Trotwood

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Access to detailed county parcel data

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Why not both at once?

GIS Training: GIS & the Census

• This training session focused on hands-on learning on how to use Census data in GIS. It used ArcGIS Online as a platform instead of ArcGIS deskto

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MVRPC hosted its first Geographic Information System (GIS) training session on Tuesday, November 8 in our own office suite. The session focused on hands-on learning on how to use Census data in GIS. MVRPC staff members serving as instructors, each participants had an opportunity to learn more about the Census data itself and how to bring in and analyze Census data in GIS.

26 attendees, 22 of which were from 18 different member organizations.

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The event was a big success, with a total of 26 attendees, from which 22 attendees were from our 18 different member organizations. MVRPC plans to host more hands-on GIS training sessions in the future to meet the needs of our member organizations. For more information about MVRPC’s GIS program, visit our website at http://www.mvrpc.org/data-mapping/geographic-information-systems-gis-mvrpc.

Story Map

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Show page, link to actual story map and walk thru

http://arcg.is/2fAwOzS

Continue to provide GIS Services to share data and expertise with member local jurisdictions and the general public Major Areas of Concentration •Customized web mapping applications to address member’s needs •Subject-based professional training sessions •Regional mapping application(s) through collaborative partnerships

MVRPC GIS – WHAT’S NEXT?

MVRPC Shaping Our Region’s Future Together

Martin Kim, AICP, GISP [email protected] Tom Harner, GISP [email protected] Kathryn Youra Polk, GISP [email protected] www.mvrpc.org

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