gis-l: FDEP GIS - Frequently Asked Questions - Application Spotlight

[North, Joe]

Good Morning,


Here are a few items that you might find interesting or useful...

Q. Need to find a Florida public beach access location for work or play?
A. Visit http://ca.dep.state.fl.us/mapdirect/?focus=coastalaccess.  Danny Clayton (Program Administrator),  Sherrie Mendelson (web graphics) and Sara Wander (GIS) who work in the Florida Coastal Management Program within FDEP's Office of Intergovernmental programs have worked with Gary Kekelis and Aparna Bokey to create a Coastal Management Beach Access Focus within Map Direct.  The Sara has provided the following application description;

The Florida Coastal Management Program is developing an interactive, web-based beach access guide that details the locations and amenities of sandy beach access points for the entire state. The aim of this access guide is to provide residents and visitors with coastal recreation opportunities. This data is collected during fieldwork by utilizing a global positioning system, and entering in all amenity attributes for each access site into a geodatabase on ArcGIS. The final product of this project will include an informational website with information about each county, which includes links to the map direct focus for a user friendly, interactive approach to finding beach access locations.

Q.  What kind of changes can we expect from FDEP's enterprise GIS in the coming months?
A.  There are a number of "things" that we're working on currently:

*         Testing ArcGIS Server version 10.0 - Among other things, this application provides services for FDEP's Map Direct Application.  Testing includes installation on a newer, stronger, faster server.  This is expected to boost the performance for users who access the application's many focuses through the web.

*         Optimizing Map Direct for mobile devices - The goal of this activity is to improve the delivery of Map Direct to smart phones, tablet pc's and other remote devices.

*         Expanding the 2011 imagery dataset to include additional counties "flown" in the winter of 2010-2011 as soon as they are approved by the USGS.  A "fly-date" layer is in development for this dataset as well.

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