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The GIS Team for Public Works, City of Richmond, Virginia leverages ArcGIS Pro and Online to plan, record, and display the data from the inspections of the Paving program. This presentation shows the methodology and steps used in collecting, editing, and presenting the paving data to the Pavement Manager, Contractors, and the Auditors, and the ArcGIS Online features that are used.
Prior to using ArcGIS Online and Pro, the Pavement Manager and inspectors used six hard-copy forms and a humongous spreadsheet. The process used a large amount of paper and storage space and was very unwieldy. Finally, the amount of time spent with the City Auditors to defend the paving costs was long and stressful. The agreement with the Paving Manager was that if the GIS Team could recreate the hard-copy paving forms in an ArcGIS Online app and present the large spreadsheet in a Dashboard, the Pavement Manager would agree to a pilot to use ArcGIS Online for the inspections. By using Survey123 to collect the paving data, ArcGIS Online web maps and apps to edit any errors in the data, and Dashboards to present the data collected, the GIS Team convinced the Pavement Manager to use ArcGIS Online maps and apps in the collection of paving data. One final upside of the digital data collection was that we provided the data layers to the City Auditors that allowed them to use the original data in their audit of the paving program. This step significantly decreased the total time that the Pavement Manager spends interacting with the auditors.
The conversion of the hard-copy forms and spreadsheet to ArcGIS Online apps decreased the amount of paper used in the process and resulted in fewer errors in converting the hard-copy forms to a digital spreadsheet. By being on ArcGIS Online, the data could be presented to the Pavement Manager, City Auditors, and contractors. This resulted in less stress for everyone involved and a quicker process to confirm the paving data.
