Mono County leverages ArcGIS Mobile and ArcGIS Viewer for Microsoft Silverlight for Highway 395 Scenic Byway Grant
Mono County leverages ArcGIS Mobile and ArcGIS Viewer for Microsoft Silverlight for Highway 395 Scenic Byway Grant
Mono County recently received a $196,000 grant from the National Scenic Byways Program through the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to develop a Highway 395 Corridor Management Plan. The focus of the Corridor Management Plan is to identify and develop enhancement opportunities that preserve and promote the intrinsic qualities on the 100 mile stretch of US Route 395 from the CA/NV border to the Mono/Inyo County line. The primary impetus for pursuing National Scenic Byway designation is to access funding opportunities and national marketing tools, such as inclusion in the national collection and travelers’ map of America’s Byways.
One of the first phases of the project is to identify resources along the corridor that provide a quality visitor experience through a variety of intrinsic qualities. These are typically sites that include Recreational, Cultural, Historic, Scenic, Natural, and Archeological qualities and are representative of the unique nature of the Eastern Sierra. GIS is playing a significant role in identifying and cataloging these facilities, as well as the infrastructure that supports the visitor experience while at these sites. The goal of this effort is to build a robust and extensive dataset within the study area. A variety of different Feature Classes have been developed in order to focus the data collection effort, and target the types of information that need to be gathered to support analysis and planning for the project. This data includes everything from the facility or site itself, to the picnic tables, signage, bathrooms, and lighting that help provide the overall visitor experience while there.
Mono County GIS staff have leveraged functionality within ArcGIS Server to deploy feature rich data collection, editing, and presentation environments which are being used by an intern in the field and staff in the office to complete this work. In the field, our intern is working with an ArcGIS Mobile project loaded on a Trimble Juno data collection device, that allows for a simple yet efficient data collection environment. At the end of each day, the device is synced through ArcGIS Server, allowing the data to flow seamlessly back into our SDE database. Within the office, staff working on the project have the ability to look at data collected each day through a lightweight custom web application built using the ArcGIS Viewer for Microsoft Silverlight, in addition to using ArcGIS Desktop for further editing and clean-up work. As the data collection and analysis phases get closer to wrapping up, the attention of staff will switch toward production of reports, and the deployment of other GIS web services that help depict and enhance the visitor experience along the Highway 395 Corridor.
This entire effort has been made possible through and Enterprise License Agreement between Mono County and Esri, and a substantial amount of work by County GIS staff Peter Kobylarz, the field work of Steve Connett, with support from Nate Greenberg. A number of other Mono County and Town of Mammoth Lakes staff provide project management and oversight. For questions or more information about the project contact Nate Greenberg (ngreenberg@mono.ca.gov).
Nate Greenberg
GIS Coordinator
Mono County & Town of Mammoth Lakes, CA
PO Box 7657 / PO Box 1609
452 Old Mammoth Road, Ste. 224
Mammoth Lakes, Ca 93546
