Roads and Highways Blog - Page 2

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.

Coastal communities flood!!  And driving around them during flooding can be difficult and dangerous.

We’re a non-profit organization that accelerates innovation around coastal resilience solutions and we're offering up to $500,000 to create a next generation traffic app that offers drivers real-time flooding and re-routing information.  Think real-time flood info for Waze - including road closures.

We want teams who can develop and demonstrate a real-time version of this system.

Visit riseresilience.org for more details, or email me at paulrobinson@riseresilience.org .

Paul Robinson

Coastal communities flood!!  And driving around them during flooding can be difficult and dangerous.

We’re a non-profit organization that accelerates innovation around coastal resilience solutions and we're offering up to $500,000 to create a next generation traffic app that offers drivers real-time flooding and re-routing information.  Think real-time flood info for Waze - including road closures.

We want teams who can develop and demonstrate a real-time version of this system.

Visit riseresilience.org for more details, or email me at paulrobinson@riseresilience.org .

Thanks!

Paul Robinson

Executive Director of RISE

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.  

1. Automatic population of attributes.
2. Perform QA checks on existing features.
3. 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.

"The Michigan Bridge Conditions Dashboard provides up-to-date information on more than 11,000 bridges throughout the state, including locally-owned bridges...Users can sort data on the dashboard based on bridge location, status, ownership, and quality rating."

Link to article:  MDOT's new interactive map lets you check on bridge status throughout the state | Michigan Radio

Link to Esri Story Map/Dashboard:  https://mdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=fb70725b2be04dc7b01703d0b6c91bb6 

Hi Everyone,

The Roads and Highways team is holding a holistic testing session for Roads and Highways in ArcGIS Pro.  The details for the session are below:

Roads and Highways in ArcGIS Pro Holistic Testing
Esri Campus, Redlands, CA
November 5-6, 2019

All current Roads and Highways users are invited to attend.  There are space limitations, so we ask that each organization attending plan to send a maximum of 2 individuals.  We ask that those individuals attending the session have familiarity using Roads and Highways.  The session is not designed to be a training or introduction to Roads and Highways, but instead will involve a series of hands on exercises focused on the new and expanded capabilities of Roads and Highways in ArcGIS Pro to gather feedback from users to help improve future development on the product in ArcGIS Pro.

We'll follow up with formal invitation in August with additional logistics but wanted to give those interested in attending time to begin any approval process they might need to attend.  Any additional questions can be directed to Nathan Easley (neasley@esri.com).

We look forward to seeing you in November.

Esri Roads and Highways team

Capitalizing upon the success of Spike’s integration with Esri’s Survey123 for ArcGIS mobile app, ikeGPS is pleased to announce that we will begin working on an integration between Spike and Esri’s premier field data collection app, Collector for ArcGIS. Integration development between the two apps is planned for late 2019 and is forecasted to be ready in time for the 2020 field season.

Learn more about how you can participate in beta testing in the Spike-Collector working group here.

ESRI Mobile Data Collection Users Group Webinar Feb 21st, 2019 - Recap

Here is the schedule for the next ESRI Mobile Data Collection Users Group. 

If you would like share how you are using mobile technology, or any tools related to mobile data collection please let us know as we are always looking for future presenters.

Here is a link to the recording: https://esri.box.com/shared/static/radai0bvavl5a8xauwc14pg92e8r41fa.mp4

Thank you.

Shawn Blaesing – Iowa DOT, Shawn.Blaesing-Thompson@iowadot.us

Sean Dolan – ESRI, Sean_Dolan@esri.com

Tom Brenneman – ESRI, tbrenneman@esri.com

Presenter: Adrian Sellars - GIS Program Manager, Utah DOT - asellars@utah.gov

https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-13014-esri-mobile-data-collection-ug-webinar-feb21st-2019-ut-dot

Presenting on the Traffic Count group Workforce, Collector, Survey123 workflow.  This project from scratch as per request to help put ATR (automatic traffic recorder) data into one place where it get's updated, location inspections are generated against it, and new sites can be added.  The past workflow used a MS access database, google sheets, paper inspection forms that were then entered by hand, and a separate GIS database showing their locations.  It is now all GIS based and updated/maintained using ESRI mobile applications and ArcGIS Online 

Presenter: Cricket VonJames – IT Manager, Stormwater Program, Nevada DOT, - CVonJames@dot.nv.gov

https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-13016-esri-webinarfeb21st2019mnnpdf

The mobile application Collector and GIS maps are used to conduct stormwater inspections, which can be viewed by office staff in real-time. This has given NDOT the capability to more efficiently and effectively to perform inspections of outfalls, industrial facilities, maintenance facilities, and stormwater assets.  It has also assisted in their ability to investigate illicit discharges.

Presenter: Ishmael Chivite – Senior Product Manager, Survey123, ESRI - ichivite@esri.com

https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-13015-esri-mobile-data-collection-ug-webinar-feb21st-2019-esri-q...

Presenting up updates to Survey123.