December 2022

The December 2022 meeting featured presentations on the following topics.

Asset Inventory Strategies for Transportation and Public Works Infrastructure – Justin Hoffman, City of Fort Worth
The Transportation Public Works department at the City of Fort Worth recently completed a city-wide asset inventory of existing surface transportation infrastructure. This presentation discussed the city’s approach and strategy to this asset inventory effort such as planning data collection, ensuring compatibility to existing data architecture, developing processes for data deliverables, QA/QC strategy and process, and final database upload. The intent is to educate those considering an asset inventory on how to be prepared prior to data collection, understand the challenges receiving and evaluating data deliverables, and ensuring data is the most value-added and advantageous to the organization.

Striping Team Inventory App – David Allen and Nicholas Willette, City of Euless
To track street lane painting and identify which roads have been painted recently and what they should expect to do in the next year, the Euless Public Works Department created a custom app which was discussed in this presentation. The app is used to log all painting projects, inspect existing striping for consideration in the next year’s painting program, and help determine an annual painting budget.

The Role of GIS in Law Enforcement Crime Reduction Strategies – Heather Lane, Grand Prairie Police Department
The Grand Prairie Police Department utilizes GIS in many of its evidence-based policing, crime reduction strategies. In this specific example, it utilizes GIS for implementing the Koper Curve Theory or visibility policing. ESRI ArcGIS Pro is used to identify “hot streets” for targeting problem areas within the city and utilizes ESRI ArcGIS Online dashboards and maps to keep the initiative on track.

Emerging Spatial Analytics – Briley Barnwell, ESRI
This presentation discussed the growing demand for enterprise spatial analytics within the real-time, big data and graph space, and how Esri is building specific capabilities to address each of these needs. It shared high level opportunity areas ESRI has seen within each capability, and how they work well together.

Collaborative Chemical Planning using ArcGIS – Bernardo Salazar, Dallas County
Location accuracy is a significant limitation when working with chemical facility data. Addresses must be verified and updated to use the data within emergency planning. Using a series of spatial processes, Dallas County identified possible locations needing verification and used ArcGIS's Experience Builder to distribute the workload across Dallas County Emergency Management offices.

Building a Meaningful Disaster Preparedness App and the Associated Data Challenges – Maya Shaw, City of Plano
This presentation covered how to overcome emergency management challenges, especially with understanding, gathering, and visualizing data for Tier II Facilities (hazmat sites) as well as other data collection and presentation challenges. Through this process, a solution was provided to the EM team so that they can assess and analyze impact and/or potential threat to infrastructure and the community in the event of an emergency or disaster, and then communicate plans and decisions quickly and easily to all involved in the response and recovery.

Community Grocery Store Accessibility in Fort Worth – Payton Shlemon and Katelin Kripps, Tarrant County College

Health Services in Fort Worth – Natalie Bauman and Noah Mathe, Tarrant County College

Story Map of the Parks and Trails in the City of Fort Worth – David Munoz, Adam Pitchford and Carey Wolff, Tarrant County College

Utilizing GIS for a Broad Range of Basic Applications – Shane Smith, Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.