CCJDC Agenda for Virtual Meeting
August 11th, 2020
9:30 am: Call to Order
9:31 am: Review/Approval of Minutes. Bryan read a recap of the January 2020 CCJDC meeting.
9:32 am: Any New Announcements or Additions to agenda. None.
9:40 am: Participant Introduction & Agency Updates.
Austin Robey, City of Watsonville. Working on City works.
Bryan Kriete, Santa Cruz County DPW. Working on a variety of mobile applications – some deployed, some in process. Building out Lucity Spatial. Improving accuracy and standardization of all datasets. Developing a suite of dashboards for DPW management.
Chad Miller, County of Monterey. Monterey County ITD GIS is working with the Assessor’s Office on implementing a Parcel Fabric data model with Esri support from our Enterprise Advantage Program. GIS support to COVID-19 has been limited, but we are tracking testing sites and homeless shelters.
Dario Moreno, Caltrans District 5. Discussed asset management and sign inventory collection efforts, equipment, and software. Caltrans D5 staff are currently using iPads with Collector. Our student interns extract our sign locations using PathWeb and input that information into a spreadsheet (this includes lat/long). I then take that info and append the points to our enterprise GIS database. The last step is to field verify the signs and do a condition assessment. We are using a Trimble R1 antenna to improve the accuracy of our sign locations.
Gina Schmidt, AMBAG. Working on Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, Regional Growth Forecast, Activity Based model project and upcoming peer review.
Joe Londono, Caltrans District 5.
Lynn Overtree, San Benito Ag Land Trust. Using GIS primarily to inventory property features and to create maps. SBALT is beginning a grant-funded project to assess the agricultural conservation needs in San Benito County and prioritize project areas. This will help the organization know when to accept projects, or reject them. Mapping will help us assess multiple benefits of a given place.
Marc Gomes, Ag Commission Office of Monterey County.
Will Condon, AMBAG. No update.
10:00 am: Discuss Coronavirus Impacts/Projects related to GIS. CCJDC participants discussed how COVID-19 and agency policies, maps, technology has impacted work and work-flows during the remote/Work from home time. Some agencies, such as Santa Cruz County, are doing split shifts of being in the office. COVID-19 has helped agencies with technology, data capture in the field using devices and software that originally may have not been authorized without this pandemic. AMBAG policy is no in-person meetings, as such, we are leveraging virtual meetings via GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar.
10:20 am: Discuss ESRI UC2020 Experience. Bryan, Austin, and Chad discussed the virtual GIS Conference and the format. Most agreed that the experience was different, but good as no in-person conference could be held. The benefit is that it is available online and users could stream multiple sessions at one time, and pick and choose which ones were most interesting/needed instead of running around from room to room at the convention center in SD.
10:40 am: Agenda Items
- Using Dashboards Effectively
- Deploying Mobile Applications
Lots of discussion on what works and doesn’t regarding mobile. Connectivity issues. Data entry. QA/QC in the field. Integrating ESRI mobile apps with Asset Management Software. Discussed Watsonville’s roll-out of CItyWorks. Not a lot of dashboard use yet though County of Santa Cruz has developed and deployed a couple dashboards and has several in development.
11:54 am: Wrap Up & Meeting Adjourned
Next meeting Late October? Topics for meeting: ESRI dashboard demo (Dario to contact ESRI rep), Chad to demo a dashboard, Dario to demo Caltrans app/provide update on it.