{"id":111572,"date":"2019-02-01T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=111572"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:37:52","slug":"chilling-with-arcgis-online","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/chilling-with-arcgis-online","title":{"rendered":"Chilling with ArcGIS Online"},"author":1312,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"arcnews_issues":[103452],"class_list":["post-111572","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","arcnews_issues-summer-2016","arcnews_sections-your-work"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Salt Lake County Cool Zones web map helps people beat Utah\u2019s summer heat by helping them locate Cool Zones near them.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p class=\"subheading\"><em><strong>Web Maps Steer Senior Citizens to Cool Zones During Summer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":111592,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The extensive interactive mapping platform offered by Salt Lake County, Utah, lets users find anything\u2014from township services and county council representatives to historic temples and community gardens.\r\n\r\nBut the\u00a0<em>Salt Lake County Cool Zones<\/em>\u00a0map, launched in July 2015 for Salt Lake County (SLCo) Aging and Adult Services, might also save lives.\r\n<h3>Locating Close Cool Zones<\/h3>\r\nSummers in Salt Lake County can be roasting. Temperatures often soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, causing some people to wilt when they venture outdoors.\r\n\r\nExcessive heat can be extremely dangerous to senior citizens and disabled persons\u2014especially those whose houses or apartments lack air conditioning. To reduce the instances of heat-related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke, SLCo Aging and Adult Services launched the Cool Zone Program to open air-conditioned libraries, senior centers, recreation centers, and indoor ice skating facilities (called ice centers) to senior citizens and people with disabilities. There are currently more than 30 Cool Zones in Salt Lake County.\r\n\r\nTo help people find the Cool Zones closest to their homes, the SLCo Aging and Adult Services agency asked the Salt Lake County Surveyor's Office to create a user-friendly, interactive map of Cool Zone locations."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":111602,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The Surveyor's Office decided to use the Local Perspective configurable app, available in ArcGIS Online, to create the web mapping app. The Local Perspective template\u2014one of dozens of configurable apps that Esri offers in ArcGIS Online\u2014gives users the ability to find the mapped Cool Zones closest to them by either placing a point on the map to mark where they live or typing their street address into a search box. The app then displays the Cool Zones within a buffered distance of the location the user selects.\r\n\r\nFor example, if the user enters an address on Hollywood Avenue in Salt Lake City and chooses a three-mile radius around that location, six Cool Zones will appear as pop-ups on the map as well as in a list along the right side of the page. The app was configured to create a one- to ten-mile radius around a point on the map.\r\n\r\nWhen the user selects one of the Cool Zones\u2014for instance, Fairmount Aquatic Center near Hollywood Avenue\u2014the distance from the user's location will appear (e.g., 0.94 miles), along with the facility's address, telephone number, hours of operation, and other pertinent information such as the current local temperature.\r\n\r\nResidents of Salt Lake County can find the Cool Zone interactive map on the Cool Zone Program section of the SLCo Aging and Adult Services' website.\r\n<h3>Building the App in Less Than a Day<\/h3>\r\nEmily LaMunyon, a GIS analyst and web developer for the Salt Lake County Surveyor's Office, created the map. She said it took less than a day to build the app.\r\n\r\nFirst, she compiled a list (from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet) of Cool Zone locations in the area into a GIS layer in ArcGIS for Desktop. The layer included all the important information associated with each place.\r\n\r\nNext, she published the layer as a map service using ArcGIS for Server to make the map available on the Internet. She added the map service to ArcGIS Online so she could use it as the Cool Zones layer in the web map.\r\n\r\nTo complete it, LaMunyon added a custom basemap that SLCo GIS created and configured the pop-ups in the Cool Zones layer so users can see more information when they click on a Cool Zone location in the map. Finally, LaMunyon shared the map in ArcGIS Online using the Local Perspective app."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":111612,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\"This app was a perfect fit because it allows users to enter their address, use the Locate tool, or just simply click on the map and see which Cool Zones are closest to them,\" said LaMunyon. \"It was also simple to configure the text, colors,\u00a0<em>[and]<\/em>\u00a0logo and add current weather information.\"\r\n<h3>Guiding People to \"Safe Havens\"<\/h3>\r\nBefore GIS technology existed, the collaborative delivery and coordination of services\u2014which have a direct impact on people's lives\u2014would have been inefficient, time consuming, or impossible, said Salt Lake County surveyor Reid J. Demman.\r\n\r\n\"The Cool Zone map is interactive, simple to use, and allows our at-risk population to locate safe havens from the summer heat,\" he continued. \"This is a great example of the practical application of GIS technology to a real-life human need.\"\r\n\r\nLaMunyon was happy to create the Cool Zone app.\r\n\r\n\"I like to think the work we do as GIS professionals has a positive impact on the daily lives of people,\" she said. \"I love it when projects come my way that allow my work to be of benefit to the citizens that we serve.\"\r\n\r\nBesides LaMunyon, contributors to this project included Izabela Miller, GIS analyst for Salt Lake County Information Services, and Alex Rudowski, GIS specialist for Salt Lake County Public Works Engineering and Flood Control.\r\n\r\n"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chilling with ArcGIS Online 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