PROJECT SUMMARIES
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(Below are some examples of current and past projects.) |
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Arboretum GIS/GPS Mapping |
01.20.10 - The Boone County Arboretum is a 120-acre facility located in rural Boone County, Kentucky and is open to the public. The facility is unique in that it integrates active recreation (baseball diamonds and soccer fields), passive recreation (walking/jogging trail, and wildlife observation areas) and an arboretum... |
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To better manage the constantly changing facility, the arboretum has implemented a combination of GIS and GPS technologies under the guidance of the Boone County Planning Commission's GIS Services Division. This allows the arboretum to continuously update their inventory of trees, shrubs, plant beds, trails, woods and wetlands year round. There are two major outcomes of this project. The first is the Arboretum Map; a PDF of this map is available online at www.bcarboretum.org. The second outcome is an ArcIMS site available at www.boonecountygis.com that gives users the most current view of what is available at the arboretum. The following sections will outline in greater detail the various aspects of the Arboretum GIS/GPS Project. Much of the discussion will focus on the 2006 project, while the 2007 project will be mentioned occasionally. [ ...read more] |
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01.20.10 - The BooneMap software was first developed and customized for the Boone County GIS members in 2000. The goal was to replace the functionality of ArcView and Mapit! within the MapObjects environment. This environment provides the same basic functionality, but at a lower cost to the member agencies. Some of the basic functionality includes: loading and symbolizing themes, feature searching and identifying, querying features, and printing maps. |
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This software is a key component for getting Boone County GIS in the hands of the member agencies. Today, there are three applications in the BooneMap Suite: the original version (known as BooneMap Classic), the “light-weight” version (known as BooneMap LT), and the ArcGIS Desktop add-on (known as BooneMap Workstation). These three applications are responsible for getting Boone County GIS in the hands of over 700 GIS members across Northern Kentucky. [ ...read more] |
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0./20.10 - The Boone County Kentucky Cemetery Map was produced by the Boone County Planning Commission in conjunction with Johnson-Wilson Cemetery Stewards Association. Funding was provided by the Kentucky Cemetery Preservation Fund and R.C. and Deborah Jo Durr. The mission statement for the Boone County Historic Cemeteries project is: |
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Promoting Community Values through Historic Cemetery Preservation |
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The hope is to accomplish this through Restoration, Education, and Documentation. |
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It has been estimated that there are over 300 cemeteries in Boone County. However, only 196 have been mapped and documented. The majority of cemeteries in Boone County are small, privately-owned family cemeteries that are in various states of disrepair. [ ...read more] |
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Production Data and Published Data |
03.04.10 - When looking at Boone County’s data modeling activities, one of the most important concepts to understand has to do with the relationship between production data and published data. Simply put, this concept promotes the idea that the data being actively maintained does not have to have the same schema as the data that is being provided to end users for analysis and consumption. A natural parent-child relationship exists between the two types of data in the sense that published (or child) data sets are produced from the production (or parent) data sets. As illustrated below, a third component that is inherently part of Boone County’s data modeling paradigm is the transformation that occurs between the production and published data. [ ...read more] |
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01.20.10 - The Document hyperlinking project has been on-going in Boone County since early 2004. After several revisions of the “Proof of Concept” were completed, a final solution was implemented in the spring of 2008. Since 2004, however, the primary goal of this project has remained intact: |
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To provide its member agencies with access to important documents through a standard GIS application |
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The three major components of this project include: 1) the hyperlinked documents, ranging from digital photos to Sara Title III EHS Plans, 2) the standard GIS application (known as BooneMap LT), used to access multiple documents using HTML, and 3) an Access database, used to tie everything together and act as the hyperlink repository for both creation and organization. [ ...read more] |
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Interactive Mapping Services |
01.20.10 - The Internet Map Server (IMS) was introduced in January 2003 and a more robust internet mapping technology, known as ArcGIS Server (AGS), was introduced in July 2007. Together, these two technologies are commonly referred to as “Interactive Mapping Services.” |
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Like many GIS desktop applications, an interactive mapping service has basic functionality like: zooming, panning, feature searching, identifying, and printing. It is this functionality that puts the word “Interactive” in Interactive Mapping Services. |
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The goal for this technology is to simply provide current GIS data to the general public over the internet in a cost effective and efficient way. Though Boone County GIS has had good and bad experiences throughout the process, the mapping services have remained cost effective because the entities involved understand the importance of giving free public access to GIS data and the mapping services have remained efficient because of the availability of cutting-edge technology and broadband internet. [ ...read more] |
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