{"id":8195,"date":"2016-08-29T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:14:05","slug":"engaging-the-people-of-new-orleans-with-gis","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/engaging-the-people-of-new-orleans-with-gis","title":{"rendered":"Engaging the People of New Orleans with GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, August 29 marks the 11 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest disaster in American history. And while the category five storm caused unprecedented damage, the community has rebuilt the destroyed infrastructure, and has also taken new steps forward technologically.<br \/>\nThe city of New Orleans now uses GIS extensively, and incorporates Esri\u2019s ArcGIS platform into a series of enterprise applications. These help the public stay informed as well as enabling them to participate in making their city a better, safer place to live.<br \/>\nFor instance, a new website called <a href=\"http:\/\/whereyat.nola.gov\/\">Where Y\u2019at<\/a>, is allowing citizens to access public data as easily as any common search engine.  By typing in their address, people can find up-to-date information about property boundaries, garbage, and recycling pick-up days, polling locations, district representation, and more.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnother application, <a href=\"https:\/\/propertysurvey.nola.gov\/photosurvey\/\">Property Survey<\/a>, allows the public to rate properties.  It also gives government new reliable data on vacant lots, foundation type, and housing resiliency.  An upcoming app, \u201cAdopt a Catch Basin,\u201d will aid in ensuring that debris doesn\u2019t hinder ground water drainage. This new system that assigns people to check their basins prior to a storm feeds data directly into the city\u2019s 311 system. A ticket is automatically created for cleared and blocked basins. Once a basin gets cleared, that ticket is closed.<br \/>\nNew Orleans believes that citizens shouldn\u2019t have to come to city hall to become more engaged with their government. Engaged citizens can make a difference from their homes, or even out and about via mobile devices, where 200 volunteers documented standing water locations for the health department to assess mosquito breeding ground potential, thus reducing the spread of the Zika Virus.<br \/>\nEsri\u2019s ArcGIS platform continues to help communities innovate and keep leaders and citizens active and engaged with applications like Where Y\u2019at and Property Survey. Find out more about Esri\u2019s commitment to public works at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwa.net\/PWX\">Public Works Expo<\/a>, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, August 28-31. Esri, along with Esri Canada and six Partners will demonstrate ArcGIS for <a href=\"http:\/\/arcg.is\/2bMlIVV\">Public Works<\/a>, the powerful set of solutions for intelligent public works systems. Esri enables public works departments to share data with all divisions on a common platform, linking them together with a familiar mapping interface, and coordinating the work of the entire city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[279192,275962,275952],"tags":[4381,163382,1451,241],"class_list":["post-8195","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","category-managing-gis-2","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-arcgis-online","tag-citizen-engagement","tag-gis"],"acf":[],"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>Engaging the People of New Orleans with GIS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/engaging-the-people-of-new-orleans-with-gis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Engaging the People of New Orleans with GIS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Monday, August 29 marks the 11 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest disaster in American history. 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