Palm Desert – MobileMapper CE
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In USA
+1 408 615 3970
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+56 2 273 3214
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In France
+33 2 28 09 38 00
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In Germany
+49 81 6564 7930
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Fax +49 81 6564 7950
In Russia
+7 495 956 5400
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Fax +7 495 956 5360
In the Netherlands
+31 78 61 57 988
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Fax +31 78 61 52 027
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In Singapore
+65 6235 3678
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Fax +65 6235 4869
In China
+86 10 6566 9866
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Fax +86 10 6566 0246
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Palm Desert’s Expanded GIS Program
GIS has grown in importance for Palm Desert, a wealthy residential and
resort community that’s home to more than its share of celebrities. Like
many cities, Palm Desert has found GIS to be a vital component to city
planning and administration. Four Palm Desert departments are the
first beneficiaries of the expanded GIS effort using the two new
Magellan MobileMapper CEs.
The Landscape Department is receiving a complete mapping of its
irrigation equipment, water meters, controllers and sensors. In
addition, the landscape areas they are charged with maintaining
are being defined in terms of square footage to better allocate
irrigation resources.
Hiking is a very popular pastime in Palm Desert. Existing trails were
not well inventoried and existing maps weren’t as accurate as officials
would like. In laying out new trails, the Planning Department needed
to know exactly where prospective trails would traverse, whether
through protected wildlife protected areas, particularly Bighorn
sheep areas that need to exclude unleashed dogs; through adjacent
jurisdictions, and even private lands that would require permission
and coordination.
The Traffic Department is undertaking a complete city-wide inventory
and mapping of all its signage, signals and traffic control vaults.
Once the inventory data base is complete, road crews will be able to
maintain the data base by logging additions, removals, modifications,
or location changes.
Public art has long been important to Palm Desert. Throughout the city
there is a large amount of public art. A city ordinance requires public art
be incorporated into the landscaping of any new developments. One of
the projects being undertaken for the Art in Public Places Program is
mapping of the city’s public art, with all the information about each
piece described. Within the GIS layer, each item of art is hyperlinked to
a picture of the art with all the information about the piece, the artist’s
name, date of acquisition, etc.
Using ESRI’s ArcPad Application Builder software, the GIS
department is building a customized ArcPad application for each of
the departments. Personnel from Landscape, Traffic, Planning and
Public Works, will soon be able to log changes directly into the
MobileMapper CEs, thus ensuring up-to-date GIS data. The low
cost and ease-of-use of the MobileMapper CE help make this
decentralization of data maintenance possible.
MobileMapper CE polygon data used to calculate square footage.
Polyline data accurately shows the measured sidewalk. Insert reflects MobileMapper CE's real-time
accuracy (blue spots) over 1 meter ring (red line); 1 foot rings (grey circles).
