Digitizing the RiverWalk

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By: Ashley Hoerz, Jesus Ochoa, Mary Wagner, and Dongni Zhang

Urban Planning 793

Spring 2016

Project Guidance

• Client: Kristin Bennett (Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator)

• City of Milwaukee Mission Statement: "To provide public access to the riverfront 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

• “To continue to make Milwaukee more pedestrian friendly.“

• Project Vision: By utilizing GIS, the City of Milwaukee will better understand and manage its assets on the RiverWalk System.

Project Overview

• Collect and inventory pedestrian amenities and accessibility features and line feature on the RiverWalkcreating a Pedestrian GEOdatabase.

• 8 Week Time Frame

• Pilot Area: Kilbourn to Erie• Length: Total 1.12 miles (0.36 miles

on West side and 0.76 miles on East side)

• Entire Riverwalk Length: 3.1 miles

• Project going forward

Amenity Features

Accessibility Features

Source: City of Milwaukee, May 2016,

http://city.milwaukee.gov/RiverWalk.htm#.

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Source: Google Image, May 2016, Aftcra

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/158118636890638985/Source: City of Milwaukee, May 2016,

http://city.milwaukee.gov/RiverWalk.htm

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Line Feature

Collection Process

• Magpi Data Collector App• Free mobile app

• Only plots points

• Pathfinder/Strava apps

• Aerial Digitizing• Use of 2013 Milwaukee County Aerial Photo

Magpi

http://home.magpi.com/

Magpi

Digitizing from Aerial Photo

Pathfinder/StravaPathfinder Strava

Challenges

Magpi Challenges

Line Feature ChallengesPathfinder Strava Aerial Photography

Overcoming Challenges

Magpi Collector

• Physically move each point to desired area• Through the use of:

• Aerial Photo

• Critical Note Taking

• Camera Videos

• Pictometry Website

• Took more time than anticipated

Moving PointsBefore After

Pathfinder/Strava and Digitizing Aerial

• Ditched Pathfinder/Strava

• Went with Digitized RiverWalk• Took paper maps for field data collection

• Manually entered data

Final Products

• Pedestrian Geodatabase (Pilot Area)• Amenity Points

• Accessibility Points

• Line Feature

• Data Collection Instruction Manual• Step by step guide including:

• Feature Class Descriptions

• App set up

• Importing into ARCMAP etc.

• Maps

Source: Google Images, May

2016, resources.arcgis.com

Source: Google Images, May 2016,

www.alexzaia.com

How is this Useful?

Current Map on RiverWalk Website

Source: City of Milwaukee, May 2016,

http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityDCD/DowntownMilwaukee/RiverWalk/

maps/Map-Milwaukee-Riverwalk.jpg

Line Features

Future Endeavors

• Interactive Maps for Website/Phone Apps

• Inventory the businesses and land use patterns along the RiverWalkfor future analyses.

• Hot spot analysis: Pedestrian/crime incidents along RiverWalk

• Useful Information for DPW

Recommendations

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• Invest in accurate equipment such as Trimble antenna. (~ $2,500.00)

• Investment in ESRI Licensing for Field data collection (Annual Fees) --> Coordinate with the GIS Department

• Arc Collector Application for better, more accurate data collection and easy integration into ArcMap

Source: Trimble R1 GNSS Receiver http://www.trimble.com/mappingGIS/R1-

GNSS-Receiver Arc Collector screen shot from Apple App Store

Questions?