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Track: Local/State Government, Cadastral, Land Records
David Hart
University of Wisconsin
550 Babcock Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: 608-263-5534
Fax: 608-262-2500
E-mail: dhart@macc.wisc.edu
Allen Miller, Bernard Memann, Stephen Ventura
Developing GIS Applications for Coastal Management in Wisconsin Local Government
Defining Issue: There has been a high level of spatial data development in Wisconsin due, in large measure, to the influence of the Wisconsin Land Information Program. To date, however, these data have not been extensively applied to local government decision making about coastal management on the Wisconsin shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The recent release of the Interagency Land Use Council (ILUC) report on land use planning issues in Wisconsin and its recognition of the role of land information technology in the planning process also reinforce the importance of the utilization of GIS in coastal management. GIS Solution: In order to support application of GIS to coastal issues in Wisconsin, a cooperative venture between the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute and the Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility (LICGF) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been formed. The primary goal of the cooperative venture is to provide university-based outreach to Wisconsin coastal
governments to ensure that local land information systems are used to improve decision making related to Great Lakes coastal issues. Elements of the program include" 1)provision of training to coastal government staff on system design, GIS capabilities, and coastal application development; 2) technical assistance on development of specific coastal GIS applications; and 3) support for implementation of a State wide coastal GIS through promotion of metadata and the Wisconsin Land Information Clearinghouse (WISCLINC). Methodology: Model GIS applications have been developed, or are in the process of being developed, for the following issues: shoreland development regulation, coastal erosion, nonpoint source pollution assessment, and coastal land use planning. Reports documenting the application development process are prepared, which include a description of the context of the application, the specific data sets utilized, and step-by-step instructions for building the applications "from scratch" using the
sample exercises in the Introduction to ArcView training manual. The reports have been useful for coastal GIS training classes, GIS demonstrations for local governments, and technology transfer of the applications to local government. Software: Applications are written using ArcView Version 3 software with additional Avenue scripts integrated into the interface. Shoreland development and other coastal regulations are converted into a hypertext help file format using RoboHELP 3 software and are integrated into the ArcView applications.
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