MAC URISA 2016

Open transparent government has been a top initiative for many government organizations in recent years. Many have made their data available fulfilling the mandate of openness and transparency. While access to data is useful many governments are beginning to look for ways to leverage this data to improve services and the quality of life for their constituents. To facilitate governments’ ability to meet their mandates and provide a civic engagement platform, Esri developed the ArcGIS Open Data application which allows you to share your live authoritative data. Governments are using this technology to provide access not only to data but to provide information products that provide insight in to this data, highlight administrative priorities and provide resources for the development community. This approach is helping increase transparency, foster collaboration and increase productivity. Please join us to learn how you can take leverage these capabilities for your community. 

ESRI Story Maps are a versatile way to communicate, educate, and tell a story. This presentation examines techniques for planning and execution to better ensure a successful Story Map deployment, and highlights a particular case study of a custom deployment. Technical items and strategies pertaining to the general uses and requirements for Story Maps are reviewed, enabling users to better understand what powers and configures their Story Map. Helpful resources within GitHub and ESRI documentation are highlighted in order to allow users to avoid potential pitfalls in Story Map deployment. The presentation reviews the components of the Story Map Shortlist application in order to better understand important considerations when performing a customized deployment. Focused on is the implementation of the Sussex County Four Seasons of Agriculture Story Map. This Story Map Shortlist was customized and deployed to work with ESRI Maps for Office, which can remove hurdles, reduce maintenance time, and empower non-GIS personnel to maintain and augment Story Maps. This example should help users think about how they can integrate data, web maps, and Story Map applications in an efficient manner that maximizes value. 

Developing a data structure for a program and efficiently creating figures for reports consist of two entirely different styles in managing GIS data. The complexity increases by a magnitude when a program branches off into multiple projects and additional users comes into the picture to edit GIS data. Each project will have different ways of symbolizing data or showing certain features which makes the figure creation a nightmare. The data model I will be presenting is an object oriented design set up for one-way replication of non-SDE geodatabases, to keep to keep a child geodatabase synced with a parent geodatabase. I will illustrate how to create a data structure around the creation of a map and using ETL processes developed in Python to keep parent/child geodatabases synced.