PlanningLabs

Presenter: Andy Cochran

Notes:

• Chris Whong's old group
• Showed ZoLa and others
• Professed the all open source, open process story

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DoITT

Presenter: Erika Kamptner, Tim Keane

Notes:

• Erica called herself the ArcGIS product manager, not just GIS, not sure if that was on purpose or a slip.
• Tim: we're all going thru the growing pains of moving to the cloud
• Showed nyc-lib, an API for accessing services they provide
• Seemed to use Google Maps a lot for mapping front end
• Showed progress of their Lidar working group

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Dept of Buildings

Presenter: Ben Mancell, Cathy Simon, Feng Guo

Notes:

• Showed their new Community Profiles app
• We build completely open source
• Multiple data sources are a challenge for them

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Dept of Design & Construction

Presenter: Cherian Pooppallil

Notes:

• Talked about CAD GIS BIM integration
• Using Enterprise, Portal, and WAB
• Using Cyclomedia for recent ground level imagery
• Mapping sewers from DEP data, connected to their GIS map
• Focused on improving underground mapping
• Al Leidner jumped in and emphasized need for underground mapping

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Economic Development Corp

Presenter: Jiin Wen

Notes:

• "Dark Data" is open data used for its original intended purpose but not reused for other purposes.
• Grafitti-free-NYC driven off 311 open data
• Last few years, between 10000-14000 closed incidents per year
• Using routing to optimize these grafitti repairs: basic TSP algorithm but "modified by machine learning".

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Dept of Education (office of sustainability)

Presenter: Peter Barker

Notes:

• We're just getting started with GIS and ArcGIS
• Serve 1m meals per day, second only to US Army
• Solar systems, waste management
• We don't identify as data people, or GIS people, we're just trying to solve these problems.
• We are an aspiring GIS team.
• There are gaps in our outreach, so GIS is helping us find them.

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NYU CUSP

Presenter: Debra Laefer

Notes:

• Director of Citizen Science; Promoted their Masters program
• Talked about using the city's Lidar data
• Storage isn't the problem, it's accessing it and using it
• Much higher quality Lidar data than ever before
• Showed video of the semi-famous Dublin Lidar visualization
• They're using Lidar to do a solar study: rooftops, ground shadows, etc.
• They're pushing the results of their analysis BACK INTO open data so that it ca be repurposed and doesn't become "Dark Data"
• Web app built with Cesium. 

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Emergency Management

Presenter: Yury Higushi

Notes:

• Described then showed their Heat Emergency Plan
• Cooling centers around the city June-Sept, web site is up
• How to get this info out to citizens, especially those disconnected
• Need to work on a real-time workflow since data changes often
• Using Fulcrum and also Tableau dashboards
• but...
• Also using Collector and ArcGIS Online, Operations Dashboard

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Dept of Finance

Presenter: Amanda Cruz

Notes:

• Moving into 3D mapping
• They want to start including more 3D aspects into property valuation: what floor you're on, what kinds of views you have, natural light vs shadows, so hopefully they can generate more tax revenue and more fairly.
• Condos with a park view should be valuated higher than those without
• 3D map visualization allows more work to be done from desk rather than the field
• Attaching floor plans and other documents to 3D object
• Using Cyclomedia so that inspectors can do more work, and cover more ground from their desks

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FDNY

Presenter: BattChief Michael Brady, Matt Adams

Notes:

• Cycle of preparedness
• GIS is a way to make better decisions, before, during, after
• Moving from data sets to data services
• CRIMS
• Visualize buildings by footprint, by floors, underground like subways
• Integrating public and private cameras
• Integrating Cyclomedia for recent ground level imagery
• High res images, we can read ID tags on power poles!
• Using AWS, Collector, Survey123, operations dashboard
• Excited about Drone2Map
• Risk-based inspection system helps prioritize inspections for max benefit

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Dept of Health

Presenter: Mustafa (Moose) Ali

Notes:

• PODs: points of dispersing
• places where the public can go during public health crisis
• Using ArcGIS Network Analyst: Location-Allocation, closest facility
• Assigning staff and volunteers to POD locations in optimized way
• ArcGIS Online for managing data as services, and maps
• Using Survey123
• Working with DoITT to build a POD Locator app for the public

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Mayors Office, Environmental Remediation

Presenter: Maksim Kleban

Notes:

• Built v2 of their "Speed" application:  "Speed 2.0"
• Using Leaflet/CARTO because DoITT was no longer supporting the mapping technology they needed(??).  
• Lacking real-time info, they're working on that
• Search tool, address BBL, to find areas being targeted for remediation
• This app is only for visualization
• When they want to "analyze" the data, we export to CSV then bring into Excel to do our analysis.

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MTA - Subways

Presenter: Simon Liu

Notes:

• Described their linear referencing project
• When an event would happen, there would often be internal disagreement as to exactly where the train is. Not good data. Some people using personal knowledge. Not data driven. Losing time while it's sorted out internally before action can take place.
• NYC subways are still feeling very real effects of the fact that they started as three different companies.
• Using this new data in order to optimize their vacuum trains. These run every night. Every bit of track is vacuumed 4x a year.

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NYPD - Office of Mgmt, Analysis, and Planning

Presenter: Francis Cabbibo

Notes:

• CompStat briefing tool
• Statistics, mapping crime patterns
• Used to all be on paper for briefings
• They customized Operations Dashboard, they use it operationally too, not just as an analytical tool.

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