MH&E has developed a GIS roadway mapping and utility infrastructure program for the Town of Newburgh.
MH&E has developed a GIS roadway mapping and utility infrastructure program for the Town of Newburgh. This program involved the creation of several maps for the Towns Highway Department.
The illustration on the right shows our 66” x 66” wall roadmap for the Town. This map size allows easy identification of all of the streets within the community for the Town Highway staff and resides in the Town Highway Department newly formed Mapping Room.
MH&E has delivered all mapping data digitally for use by Highway Department personal. MH&E currently performs training sessions with the staff and develops and implements applications which aid the staff in their daily routines and can be used in day to day operations.
MH&E is currently involved in an infrastructure mapping program with the Highway Department. After working with the Highway Department closely, MH&E developed a data collection plan of action and software application to which MH&E would work hand in hand with Town staff with field data collection. After Town personnel have collected data, MH&E will then geo-reference the information and create utility infrastructure mapping. This is an ongoing process developed with the help of MH&E which allows the Town to be an integral part of the process and benefits the Town with inherent cost savings. These mapping concepts are now a part of the long term planning for the Town.
MH&E designed and implemented a complaint form database management system which allows the storage of complaints within an access database. The complaint forms can then be printed individually or in a summary table. The complaint locations can be geo-coded into GIS mapping and maps can be created which identify the locations of complaints. This system is currently being used on a daily basis to track and maintain complaint information by The Town of Newburgh Highway Department.
A Storm Sewer Data acquisition system was designed to collect Storm Sewer data. This data is in turn connected to the Towns GIS system for mapping and identification purposes. The data is also made readily available for MS4 requirements and inventorying municipal infrastructure.
MH&E has also worked with the City of Port Jervis to develop a new roadway map and implement a parcel search layer. MH&E is planning on digitizing all of the existing utility mapping and develop new Water, Sewer and Storm Sewer mapping.
The implementation of address search capabilities will be a significant benefit to the City of Port Jervis. With utility mapping overlaid in the near future, City staff will be able to quickly jump to a parcel and identify utilities within the street. In order to make this happen MH&E will be working with the Assessing Department and the Orange County Real Property Tax Service for the latest information available.
This project display MH&E’s ability to understand and work with various personnel and departments in the gaining of information and the building of a successful GIS system. It is important to develop solid relationships with staff and understand particular means and methods in order to implement a GIS system that gets used each and every day.
MH&E is currently working on a new Street map for the Town of Wallkill. The image above shows a portion of the Street map with enlarged inserts which enable the identification of dense street areas. This map is the first step towards a large scale utility mapping project.
This map is designed to be a 50” x 60” wall map size. MH&E is planning on integrating several existing utility databases and mapping which include a host of existing information that had been previously collected via other methods. MH&E discussed with staff the type of information available and how it was collected and stored. MH&E is utilizing several methods to input existing hardcopy and digital utility data creating new utility infrastructure mapping.
MH&E has been retained to aid in local evaluation of current impacts of planned large scale developments.
MH&E has been retained to aid in local evaluation of current impacts of planned large scale developments. The Town Board had asked for mapping which identified the relationship of current large scale development projects with a historical site known as Knox Headquarters. By utilizing current available GIS mapping data, MH&E was able to show specifically the spatial relationship of the projects in question with that of the historic properties. This mapping directly benefited the Town Board with its evaluation and resulting impact to a long established historic site.