Online GIS Applications for
Easy Access to Waterway
Information
Alexandra Carvalho, Ph.D., GISP
CMar Consulting, LLC
Jacksonville, Florida
Kathy Fitzpatrick P.E.
Martin County Engineering Department
Stuart, Florida
Outline
• Martin County Coastal Geodatabase Project
overview, goals & current status
• Project Management
• Data exchange, sharing, and consolidation
• Accessing Data via the Web
• Considerations
Martin County Coastal Data
Coastal Geodatabase
County coastal programs produce significant
amounts of data annually due to the large data
collection and reporting efforts required by state
and federal permitting agencies
• Data consolidation and easy access to the data
– Track and manage permit and grant requirements and compliance
– Support the planning and management of the County’s coastal
programs
• Information sharing & community outreach
– Scientific and engineering communities
– Federal and State agencies
– public and stakeholders
Martin County Coastal
Geodatabase Project Goals
• Artificial reefs
• Coastal monitoring and beach restoration
• Waterways management and smaller dredge projects
• St. Lucie Inlet
Data stored in the coastal geodatabase spans almost 15 years
Martin County Coastal Geodatabase
Current Status
SDE
SDE
Contractors
Permitting & Grant
Agencies
Data Collection
Community Outreach
Field & Project Data Collection
Data Transfer/Exchange (Email, FTP)
Data Consolidation
QA/QC
Data Sharing via Online GIS
What is preventing the
vision to become reality?
• Funding
• Data sharing between project participants
• Technology
SDE
QA/QC
Web Data Sharing
Web Service (historical and current data)
Data Consolidation
Permitting/Grant
Agencies
Contractors
Secure Online GIS
Project Group
Community
Outreach
Spatial Information Sharing
Why add spatial data sharing to
project management
• Requires additional staff and time
• Data access and visualization for project team
during the entire project
• Possibility to comment on a group level on any
issue that may rise a flag
• Mobile Access if using ESRI
• Funding
• Project data consolidation
• Access to historical and current data
• QA/Qc Data
• Available for detailed technical studies
• Data Sharing via web services
Role of the Coastal Geodatabase
Easy Assess to Data ?
• Easy to update web data sharing
• Mobile Access (ESRI via Android,
Windows 7, IPad – Downloading Apps)
• Web Viewer (Api)
Data sharing and use comparison
Requires GIS Skills
Reads Web Services
Group Sharing
View in Mobile
Data Collection
Arc GIS Online
Google Earth
Google My Map
Arc GIS Desktop & Server, Mobile c
Free / Cost
Cost
Easy
Medium
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Kathy Fitzpatrick P.E.
Martin County Engineering Department
Stuart, Florida
Thank You
Alexandra Carvalho, Ph.D., GISP
CMar Consulting, LLC