VAMLIS Mission The Virginia Association for Mapping and Land Information Systems is a professional association in Virginia designed to provide educational and networking opportunities for professionals who have an interest in the mapping sciences in Virginia.
Located in Richmond, Virginia, Maymont is a 100-acre urban greenspace and popular regional attraction. “Maymont’s one hundred acres are populated with thousands of stunning trees and shrubs” (source). In the Fall of 2022, Maymont and VCU began a collaboration to expand the spatial capabilities of Maymont in data collection, maintenance and visualization of their extensive arboretum and plant collection. Guided by Maymont’s mission to connect people with nature, history, wildlife and each other, our project team used a solutions driven approach to migrate the tree data collection process to ArcGIS Online and Excel. During the process, the team learned about the rich history of Maymont, the value of trees ecologically, socially and economically, and how we can use ArcGIS Online to quantify and visualize the value Maymont, and their team, provides to our community. In this session, we will talk about the goals of Maymont, the value of experiential learning opportunities, the process undertaken to migrate, update and maintain tree data, and showcase how workflow, data collection and data visualization has changed with the use of Esri ArcGIS Online.
