Abstract

Sign Management Using ArcGIS for IPAD
Track: Public Works
Authors: Ben McConville

The City of Ames, Iowa manages nearly 10,000. For years information was not accessible in the field making work tracking and inventorying difficult. Recently the City partnered with DGTex, Inc. to create a custom sign management application which can handle the complex relationships inherent in sign management. This investment in GIS development has helped the City tremendously in their efforts to conform to federal and state mandates, increase customer service, ease budgeting and make field crews more efficient. The application has sparked interest other departments and helped to spread ArcGIS throughout the organization. In this manner ArcGIS is being utilized in full circle to handle all sign related information. The application was instrumental in allowing City staff to easily perform the mandated retro-reflectivity survey on each of its 10,000 signs.