2009 Orthos Review & Web-Editing
We recently received a shipment from our 2009 orthophoto vendor by hard drive. This year we acquired imagery countywide, with some areas half foot and the rest 1 foot grid tiles. The challenge is to review the product and provide the vendor with any issues that we may find. Instead of just one person reviewing this year we are taking advantage of our new Essentials and ArcGIS Server web tools.
By making the imagery viewable online we can have multiple reviewers. Each has access to a grid layer which they can mark with a ‘completion’ status as well as a layer where they can place a polygon surrounding any issues with the orthophotography they may discover. We are extremely impressed with the job our vendor has done, so you will only see a few ‘purple’ spots representing issues (Most are the result of us testing out our ability to make a polygon in a browser-editing environment!).
The site is password protected, so we can assign a unique user name to all the reviewers. All they have to do is zoom in, review the orthophoto within a grid by panning around, and then launch the “Edit Task” tools to update either the grid or a suspect area.
We have used these online editing tools a number of times for other scenarios, but this is the first where we have collaborated between multiple County departments and the City and been ‘on the same map’ during the review process.
2009 Review Website with Edit Task Tools