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Working outside of the office walls: field collection & crowd-sourcing of data

Discover the utilization of GIS tools for field data collection and crowd-sourcing, enhancing data accuracy and efficiency. Learn how different solutions like ESRI Collector and Survey123 are revolutionizing GIS workflows. Presenter Phil Baranyai, Crawford County GIS Manager, shares insights and benefits of implementing these innovative technologies. Explore the impact on public safety, assessments, surveys, and more. Find out how to streamline processes, improve data quality, and engage stakeholders effectively.

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Working outside of the office walls: field collection & crowd-sourcing of data

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  1. Working outside of the office walls: field collection & crowd-sourcing of data Presenter: Phil Baranyai Crawford County GIS Manager

  2. GIS allows us to accomplish quite a bit from our desktops. This image of a hard working county employee was taken circa 2015. Sometimes, even with the myriad of tools at our disposal, we need more!

  3. Trimble GeoXH 2005 • ESRI ArcPad • Samsung Tab2 Active • ESRI Collector • ESRI Survey 123 Field data collection started with ESRI’s ArcDesktop software, a rugged laptop, and a consumer grade GPS plugged into the laptop (vehicle use). It’s transitioned to: ESRI ArcPad software And finally to… ESRI Collector (staff) ESRI Survey 123 (staff/public)

  4. What are we using field collection for?

  5. BAD customer sketch GOOD customer sketch Public Safety was the first to benefit. Address assignments where originally done from the office via customer request forms, GIS on the desktop, and some educated guessing. Customers would draw sketches on their request form. GIS staff would do our best, however mistakes where made, and customers would need addresses reissued.

  6. Assessment was the second to benefit. Field day including preparing the following: Property cards Building Permits Digital cameras Map of the area they were working in After prep work was done (avg 1 hr per morning), then they took all this with them into the field!

  7. Collect / Edit points – lines - polygons Locate the property on the map Open Collector Download the map Identify features on the map

  8. Whereas images (or other media) attachments are supported via Collector/Survey. Crawford’s workflow is to take geo-tagged photos with our device camera. These geo-tagged photos collect time/date/location. Related table are also supported! When work is done, return to the office (or any open wi-fi), sync your edits and you’re done!

  9. Collector works wonderfully for GIS-centric folks. Also for people that are part of an ArcGIS online organizational account. But what about the rest? How do we request information from other people? Editable webmap/app? Add ArcGIS Online users, provide training on Collector? Provide ArcPad software/GPS hardware to end users? Our answer, Survey 123! It’s a form based information collection with a GIS backend. It will only collect point data, however it’s beyond useful, and can be used publicly (no ArcGIS online organizational account)

  10. Public Facing Surveys Assessment Review Building Permit submission (muni) Construction/Demo notification Address request form Creating surveys and publishing them on our county website allows us to ask the public to provide us with GIS data, the benefit is, they are filling out a form and searching on a map (like most popular map searches).

  11. Non-GIS Staff Surveys Blighted Properties (includes image capture) Dock Permits (includes image capture) Creating surveys for staff use allows us to ask non-GIS people to provide us with GIS data, the benefit is, they are filling out a form and capturing images from the field.

  12. Issues reported from Survey 123 Survey too complicated Map is not moved (web forms only), point is not accurately portrayed Some required information is not easily accessible for customers (parcel number) Didn’t know survey existed

  13. How did we fix it?!? Survey too complicated Map is not moved (web forms only), point is not accurately portrayed Some required information is not easily accessible for customers (parcel number) Didn’t know survey existed Made the survey more dynamic – supplemental questions only appear when needed. Embedded our survey link into existing GIS application with a custom URL string to carry location/field value data into survey Advertised survey on public forums, social media, county website, and word of mouth

  14. Custom survey results https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/92493c231d73460cba1244e5dc366d2b?field:PARCEL_NUMBER=3400-014-A-12&center=41.63831567,-80.14911847

  15. Saves steps of researching where the rest is coming from Fancy, but how does it Benefit? Requests are easily searchable/archivable Layer can be added to desktop GIS or field collection GIS (Collector) for easy identification Layers can be shared across other offices, platforms (eliminates the data silos)

  16. Fancy, but how does it Benefit? Collected information can be displayed for decision makers via easy to use applications or dashboards.

  17. Any questions? Presenter: Phil Baranyai Crawford County GIS Manager

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