Abstract

Sharing Information Builds Community: Connecting our campus with ArcGIS Online
Track: Facilities
Authors: Guy Michael, Seth Hiatt

ArcGIS Online is a superior community collaboration tool. SFState Faculty, students, and staff from departments across the academic spectrum and from campus facilities planning and operations used ArGIS 10.1 and ARcGis Online to develop a public mapping framework to invite our multilayered community to connect on-line. Our map layers mirror the multilayered and interacting elements of our physical, social, and environmental resources. We invited our public to locate items of importance to them, add data, and talk together about it. We hosted information on leaking pipes, popular gathering spots, botanical microclimates, event spaces, physical access, energy savings opportunities, and more. The technology is so user-friendly that we were able to engage participation from many audiences -student clubs, graduate research faculty, students and parents visiting campus, campus gardeners, artists and poets- the full fabric of a complex community.