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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?