Integrating Survey123 with Experience Builder web maps has significant potential for enhancing community engagement. To highlight what can be done, the workflow established for the Clean Essex campaign is used as a case study.
In the Spring of 2024, Essex County, Virginia continued its twice yearly litter cleanup campaign where residents compete to see which organization can pick up the most bags of trash. This time, however, we used Survey123 and a web map built in Experience Builder to allow people to see where they ranked in the competition in (near) real time, as well as the spatial distribution of cleanups and photos from each cleanup event. As a safeguard against improper photo uploads, we implemented a filtering process where each submission had to be approved before it would appear on the map, but that approval was a simple change in a dropdown question. Using Microsoft Power Automate minimized the time delay between submissions and approval as it sent an email notification each time an entry was submitted.
The survey and map that were produced can be viewed here:
https://essex-county-virginia-gis-portal-essex-virginia.hub.arcgis.com/pages/2b2b3ed16a69481bb72e3fd5d1582bab. The same process was used to develop the Wildlife of Essex County web map (
https://essex-county-virginia-gis-portal-essex-virginia.hub.arcgis.com/pages/e70b90d3c3f74bee9e7877b7515c5cde) demonstrating the versatility of the toolset.
