Latest Contributions by EricRodenberg

The Esri Transportation Team is excited and pleased for you to join us at the 2020 Esri User Conference virtually.  This year we have some great demos and resources for those of you working on and interested in solving transportation-related problems associated with the Roads and Highways industry segment. Our team has been hard at work creating content, demos, resources, applications you can try out below.  As always, if you have any questions or would like to learn more, please visit us at our virtual kiosk or subtopic area Roads & Highways.  We are excited to meet with you, listen, and help solve your business problems.   Esri Links: New Esri Maintenance Site Esri Location Referencing Agenda (Esri Roads and Highways) Esri Transportation Webinars - Past (recorded) and Upcoming   Try it live applications: CDOT Asset Condition Dashboard - Example of the Colorado DOT Asset Condition Dashboard. INDOT Culvert and Storm Drain Inventory Dashboard - This dashboard reports on Culverts and storm and storm drains collected using LRS in Survey123. Please request a demo to see the full workflow. Stormwater Inspection Dashboard - This demo dashboard tracks MS4 inspection and maintenance work along the roadway. Please request a demo to see the full workflow. Historic Project Repository - This project viewer provides of view of all past projects and gives the user the ability to selected shelved projects and visualize the value of those projects.  Nevada Vehicle Crash Data Viewer - This viewer supports search of statewide crash data between 2014 and 2018.  The user can filter by crash type, and as you zoom in on the dynamic hex bins, you get to the original crash point. VDOT Adopt A Highway Portal - This is an Esri demo site that demonstrates how Hub Premium can manage 2-way collaboration between the public and the DOT.  Please request a demo to see the full workflow. Freistadt Bypass Project - This scene shows the power of the ArcGIS Platform, featuring data collected with Drone to Map, lidar collection, integrated mesh network generation. It features the Wayback Imagery Service to show the before and after imagery at the site of the construction project. CAD to GIS Conversion - This scene was created from a CAD file imported into GIS and converted to a 3D Scene.  Please request a demo to see the full workflow.   Videos: MS4 Mobile Inspection Workflow - This video highlights the MS4 Mobile Inspection solution for DOT's. VDOT Adopt A Highway Solution -  This video highlights how DOT's can automate theAdopt A Highway workflow. The Esri Location Referencing - This video shows how DOT's can mage their LRS using Esri Location Referencing Form-Based Event Editing - This video shows how a DOT can leverage webhooks and Survey123 to create and manage LRS Events. Project Prioritization with Insights for ArcGIS - This demos shows how to prioritize construction projects with Insights for ArcGIS. Using Offline Areas with explorer for ArcGIS Expedite Workplay Service Issues - ArcGIS Indoors Facility Management Demo At Speed Data Collection - Using Quick Capture to perform windshield Surveys   Customer Use Cases MDOT uses ArcGIS Hub to keep residents informed and safe Colorado Department of Transportation - Esri System of Engagement Data-Driven Decisions with Location Intelligence Achieving Systematic Road Safety Improvements Esri's System of Engagement e-book Discover a System of Engagement Rooted in GIS ... View more

This video demonstrates how organizations can use Survey123 and Webhooks to make event edits using a tabular or form-based approach.  Not all users of Event Editor appreciate or want to use the map-centric editing approach.  The video demonstrates how a DOT could make REST calls with Webhooks to the ApplyEdits event call to push data into specific events and specific versions of an enterprise geodatabase.  If you have questions please don't hesitate to reach out to me or @Gary Waters with questions. ... View more

The purpose of this demonstration is to show how Hub Premium empowers organizations to do the following. Publish date for the public to use. Organize information about specific topics to improve public understanding Connecting with members of the community to share or contribute data Working Collaboratively with trusted members of the community to make a positive impact in specific areas of interest. There are three key takeaways you should walk away with after having watched this video. Jeff and I will show you how to reduce your administrative burden. We will show you how to integrate field efforts with mobile GIS tools. We will show improved coordination across the Adopt-A-Highway Program. I would like to thank @Matt Viverito for pulling this workflow together because he is responsible for most of the work.  I would also like to thank @Jeff Eisman for assisting me in the demonstration.  ... View more

At ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1, Esri introduced Enterprise Sites as part of the ArcGIS Platform.  This technology gives users the ability to design and build tailored web pages that highlight an organization’s GIS content.  Enterprise Sites work with users of all GIS experience levels, and they support the ArcGIS Enterprise security model allowing you to leverage your user, group, and public content securely.  This interactive experience allows users to easily navigate and find the data, maps, and apps that are important to them without learning how the portal works, how to navigate it, or how to access a security group for data, maps, and apps.  For those of you not in ArcGIS Enterprise, not to worry, we have you covered in ArcGIS Online.  You can build the same rich experience for your users too. ... View more

Operations Dashboards do more than report situational awareness and real-time activity.  They make for a beautiful and immersive visualization experience.  The ability to filter data and get to an answer quickly and in a way that is easy to understand makes them a compelling choice for communicating an idea.  This video shows how the Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS can be used to show the location of postponed projects and the value they could bring to a community. It explains how we use the technology to help us drill down and understand that even though a project in 2017 wasn't appropriate then, it may be now that money is available. We need to add a few more projects to make sure the money gets spent, and the public understands the project that was promised or needed. ... View more

This video demonstrates how to use Insights for ArcGIS to support Project Prioritization and Scoring at a State Department of Transportation.  Many State DOT's rely on excel spreadsheets with calculations that help the score projects based on need.  If an organization can accomplish the same work using the enterprise to manage the data as the authoritative source of truth in a collaborative workflow, this will drive answers quicker and foster other applications like the Historic Project Repository.  Because applications can reuse the data once the projects are selected, and the scoring algorithm is applied. After processing the data, it can pour into other applications in the ArcGIS Platform like Operations Dashboards and Web App Builder applications for visualization.  This demonstration shows how to accomplish this using a simple workflow that is repeatable year after year.   Special thanks go to @Stewart Rouse for his help in organizing and processing the data we from Colorado Department of Transportation. ... View more

Attribute Rules were introduced to the GIS community in January 2019 with the release of ArcGIS Pro 2.3 and ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.  The focus was and still is improving data quality and reducing erroneous data entry.  While Geodatabase Domains do this through pick lists and validation through range domains, there is nothing stopping an editor from picking the wrong value.  Also, many DOT's attach information onto their asset inventory such as the county, District, Maintenance Region, and other administrative boundaries.  Many DOT's even do this through post-processing.   What if there was a way to do this in real-time while an Editor is creating a new feature or even moving an existing feature or updating its attributes.  I present to you Attribute Rules.  The Attribute rules are designed to support 3 types of workflows.   Automatic population of attributes. Perform QA checks on existing features. Constrain Invalid Edits. They are applied to your data residing in an Enterprise Geodatabase and are just another complex behavior like domains and subtypes.  They support two workflows which include evaluation at edit operations using immediate calculations to populate an attribute dynamically or they can be used as a constraint to specify permissible values. The second workflow they support is evaluation of data by a validation service allowing the user to apply them to a batch calculation to populate attributes and validation to validate existing data. Attribute Rules allow you to make the data smart, so the editor doesn't have to necessarily know where they are when they are editing a bridge.  As long as they create the bridge point, Attribute Rules can, for example, intersect the bridge point with a county and pull out the county name and insert it into the county name field on the bridge layer.  So as long as you know what the authoritative data sources using arcade expressions you can make your data smart. The best part in all of this is that wherever you make edits, in Pro, Web App Builder, Event Editor, Survey123, Collector or any other app that supports editing, the database will always honor your attribute rules and apply them no matter the client making the edit. Here is a video I put together to illustrate how it works.  Over the next few months, I'll update this blog with videos on Constraints and Validation Rules. To sweeten the pot I've also attached all of the arcade expressions I used in the video to give you a head start on your own efforts to implement Attribute Rules. Also here is a nice article in the help and a deeper dive video than mine on Attribute Rules from the 2019 Developer Summit. ... View more