GIS in Action 2019

A Rural County's Experience Deploying ArcGIS Enterprise
Levi Roberts, Crook County
Crook County is a rural County with a relatively small population. The County had implemented a standalone version of ArcGIS Server, and used a hybrid Server/Online environment to host online mapping applications. This worked but there were many limitations, especially with ArcGIS Pro coming in the near future. Over the winter the County migrated to a full Enterprise environment. This presentation will cover the reasoning for making the jump, as well as the steps involved and lessons learned along the way.

Interfacing ArcGIS Desktop and GIS Server for Web-Based Basin Analysis GIS
Lesley Bross, Jarrett Keifer, and Geoffrey Duh, Portland State University
The Center for Spatial Analysis and Research (CSAR) at PSU is currently engaged in a multi-year agreement with the USDA-NRCS, National Water and Climate Center (NWCC) to develop a spatial decision support system (SDSS) for improving water forecast accuracy. One of the goals of the SDSS is to make the GIS data used in the analysis available to government and public users. We designed and developed a data repository framework (eBAGIS) that integrates the geoprocessing capabilities of an existing desktop basin analysis GIS (BAGIS) and an internet-based GIS server to share the basin analysis GIS data. This presentation introduces the PostgreSQL-based GIS repository developed in Django, a high-level Python web framework, and the REST APIs developed for interfacing with ArcGIS Desktop addins implemented with VB .NET framework. The internet GIS repository (webservices.geog.pdx.edu/ebagis/) allows NWCC water supply forecasters and hydrologists to upload their basin analysis GIS data created on their desktop ArcMap and share these data with water managers and the public over the internet.

Challenges Connecting Building Information and GIS
Wayne Coffey, Tanja Hopmans and Levi Cecil, Portland Public Schools and Christine Rutan, Oregon Metro
PPS has struggled for many years maintaining accurate building system information. Initiatives to re-build data infrastructure have resulted in updated AutoCAD floorplans and enhanced GIS infrastructure to manage and share school facility data. Our IWMS (IBM-Tririga) tracks detailed operations activity and integrates bldg/room bi-directionally with AutoCAD to maintain accuracy between area measures and labeling. Since GIS provides more accessibility using webmap services, our goal is to establish stronger connections between all three systems that gives building operations visibility to a wider audience.
Working with our local GIS vendor, The Gartrell Group, PPS established workflow processes that convert CAD floorplan geometry into a geodatabase with record ids (using a combination of Python and Lisp scripting) that can then integrate detailed data related to from the IWMS data warehouse into the geodatabase. The result is a more accessible and manageable source of key operations data that leverages ArcGIS licensing and tools while not disrupting the more complex IWMS/CAD tools. Currently PPS harnesses these processes into a “Portland Maps” like tool that provides a map interface with tiered data summaries of schools from the property, the building, the floor (where the floor plans are then visible) and room queries. Many issues still exists. Our team would like to demonstrate successes and how these parallel/differ from ESRI’s emerging Indoor Mapping application.