Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Increase Local Government Transparency

Daniel Haverlah & Coleen Gentiles, City of Austin

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1. Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Increase Local Government Transparency
2. Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Increase Local Government Transparency
3. •  Why is transparency important in local government? •  How can we leverage geospatial technology to provide more transparency? •  Discuss the importance of centralized and authoritative data to drive both internal and public GIS products •  Examples of tools and products that drive the transparency initiative •  Moving forward
4. What does transparency mean in local government?
8. - Identify your data maintainers - Document their current workflow(s) - Set up the data maintainer in a centralized environment - Document the new workflow(s) - Identify steps in the process that can be automated - Work on the pieces that can be automated one bite at time
9. Austin Police Dept. Austin Library Dept. Austin Trans. Dept. Austin Water Utility Neighborhood Housing and Comm. Development Parks and Rec. Dept. Public Works Dept. Editing ArcSDE Publishing ArcSDE Watershed Protection Dept. CIP Feature Class
11. CIP Feature Class Editing ArcSDE Publishing ArcSDE GIS Editors
12. CIP Feature Class Editing ArcSDE Publishing ArcSDE Capital Projects Explorer GIS Editors
13. Editing ArcSDE Editor 1 Editor 2 Publishing ArcSDE GIS Admin GIS Admin Source Data ETL
14. FGDB Typically at this stage, the data is manipulated. Sub sets are created, schema changed, etc. Editor hosts feature services DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DOCUMENT
15. Editing ArcSDE Staging FGDB GIS Editors GIS Admin
16. Standard Operating Procedure Purpose Definitions Process Steps
17. Editing ArcSDE Source Data Staging FGDB Sidewalk Program Projects GIS Editing Workflow
18. -  Identify individuals in your department that have GIS skills or are interested in obtaining them -  Identify individuals that will own a particular dataset and want to edit -  Centralize the data -  Communicate with all of the individuals in your department that work on GIS data -  Eliminate silos -  Set up work flows -  DOCUMENT the work flows -  Identify the steps that are candidates for automation -  Automate in pieces. Don’t try to tackle the entire workflow all at once -  Stay engaged in the GI S Community – what are others doing? What other technologies or solutions can we leverage? -  Never stop educating yourself. Technology constantly changes -  Take your own advice – lead by example
19. CIVIC: https://austintexas.gov/civic Capital Projects Exlporer: http://capitalprojects.austintexas.gov/projects LMAP: http://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=21b476780a7347429d62a2e578b11ae9 Sidewalk Program Projects: http://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=02eecf190f5241f19f92492d63ba5ce2%20 Credits: Danny Haverlah City of Austin Public Works Department Daniel.Haverlah@austintexas.gov