TreesCount! NYC Innovation & Emerging Technologies Workgroup. Culture of Innovation in NYC Government Series. Session will begin at 1:00 pm

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1 NYC Innovation & Emerging Technologies Workgroup NYC Innovation & Emerging Technologies Workgroup Presents: Culture of Innovation in NYC Government Series TreesCount! Session will begin at 1:00 pm 1

2 NYC Innovation & Emerging Technologies Workgroup TreesCount! NYC Parks James Greenan Chief of Information Technology Jacqueline Lu Director of Data Analytics James Pagano Director of Digital Media Jeffrey Watson, Director of GIS & Analytics for Forestry, Horticulture & Natural Resources 2

3 TreesCount! Improving NYC s Urban Forest through Data, Technology and Civic Engagement James Greenan - Information Technology Jacqueline Lu - Data Analytics James Pagano - Digital Media Jeff Watson - Forestry, Horticulture & Natural Resources

4 Project Components Volunteer engagement and data collection through mapping Incorporating census data into daily forestry operations Developing a public web app to support tree stewardship Civic engagement through Open Data 4

5 TreesCount! Mapping Every Street Tree in NYC Title of Presentation Goes Here Jacqueline Lu Director of Data Analytics Innovation & Performance Management 5

6 More than 600,000 trees shade our streets, sidewalks, and homes. They make our city cooler, our air cleaner, and our neighborhoods more beautiful. Thanks to street tree inventories in 1995 and 2005, we can even quantify the dollar value of the benefits that our trees provide. Trees Count!

7 TreesCount! 2015 is the third NYC Street Tree Census Prior Censuses took place in , and

8 NYC Street Tree Census Impacts 1995: 30-day dead tree removal customer service commitment Justification and funding for a block pruning maintenance program 2005: Quantified and valued ecological services more than $121 million annually Directly led to MillionTreesNYC and a massive expansion in the number of citizen tree stewards? 8

9 From this in 2005 to this in 2015 address-based (approximate) tree location TreeKIT survey method (precise) tree location

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14 Advantages Simpler than a GPS unit. More consistent than heads-up digitizing. Collects highly standardized, spatially accurate data with little training Has been widely tested and proven to be easy for volunteers to use 14

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25 TreesCount! 2015 Web Platform 25

26 TreesCount! Partner Groups and Events 26

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29 ForMS 2.0 and Data Q/A Integration Technology and Process James Greenan, Chief of Information Technology Jeffrey Watson, Director of GIS & Analytics, Forestry, Horticulture & Natural Resources

30 Technology and Development Developed internally by NYCDPR ArcGIS Server 10.3 / SQL Server 2012 / ASP.NET Two-way 311 integration Release Date: 3/03/2015 Companion mobile application Windows Native (Win 7 OS) / ArcGIS 10.2 SDK / GeoSupport Desktop Panasonic CF-H2 and CF-19 Toughbooks w/ embedded NYCWiN ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 30

31 Statistics Data Totals as of 06/20/2016 Planting Spaces: 489,319 Tree Points: 454,623 Total Service Requests: 107,958 Inspections Created: 99,220 Work Orders Created: 82,785 ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 31

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36 Data QA ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 36

37 Data Flow Treecorder data stored on AWS Daily snapshot created at 2AM Snapshot uploaded into Parks geodatabase AWS Snapshot Local GDB Approved Trees ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 37

38 Considerations One approved survey per blockedge Varying level of tree experience Focus is on presence & spatial location of trees Unable to perform field verification Future tree updates will occur through Forestry operations and NYC Tree Map ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 38

39 Review Environment Daily AWS export uploaded to SQL Server 2012 geodatabase Versioned table for multi-user editing ArcGIS Desktop Reference data 2014 orthophotos Google Street View ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 39

40 Summary to Date Total % Surveys Collected 114, % Reviewed 103, % Approved 100, % Edited 11, % Failed 4, % Trees Approved 494,195 - * as of 6/18/2016 ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 40

41 QA Methodology Automated checks Length DBH Wrong side Duplicate User confidence levels Visual comparison to orthos and Street View Survey direction ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 41

42 Example Bad Tree Distance ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 42

43 Example Wrong Blockface ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 43

44 Example Wrong Side ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 44

45 Survey Problems Fail Reasons Edit Reasons Fail Reason Bad survey Has trees Wrong blockface Duplicate survey Quit reason Bad tree distance See comments Misc. Wrong side Wrong starting point Manual placement Grand Total Count Edit Reason Count 1786 Bad tree distance Bad survey Wrong side Wrong blockface Has trees Wrong starting point Duplicate survey Quit reason See comments Manual placement 51 1 Grand Total 11,592 4,750 ForMS 2.0 & Data Q/A Integration 45

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49 NYC Street Tree Map Beta NYS Forum Presentation June 23, 2016 James Pagano, PMP Director of Digital Media - Communications

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51 Responsive Site Design 51

52 Boroughs and Neighborhoods 52

53 Tree Species 53

54 Individual Tree Details 54

55 Social Media Sharing Example of Twitter integration 55

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57 Beta Feedback NYC.gov/parks/treemap Public Beta for Tree Census Volunteers Gather Feedback: Online form, surveys, In-person user testing Incorporate Feedback with Monthly Updates until launch 57

58 Technology Current Beta: AWS Amazon Aurora (db) AWS EC2 (server) AWS ELB (load balancer) Symfony PHP Framework Google Maps API (basemap) Leaflet (js library for maps) In Development: GeoServer (tiles and map service) PostGIS (geo db) 58

59 Post Launch Tree Map Platform Open source repository on GitHub Other municipalities can leverage Tree Map with their own tree datasets Get feedback from civic tech community to improve code APIs and OpenData APIs for tree data and anonymous tree care activity data Tree data to be released on NYC's OpenData portal 59

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61 TreesCount! Data Jam Civic Engagement through Open Data Jacqueline Lu Director of Data Analytics Innovation & Performance Management

62 What is NYC Open Data? NYC s Open Data Law, passed by City Council in 2012, requires city agencies to make data they create available for use by the public on a web portal. More than 1,300 datasets are currently available online at 62

63 Why Open Data? Open Data has the potential to change the way citizens and community groups interact with and collaborate with government to effect change in their neighborhoods. NYC s vision of Open Data For All is that Open Data is an invitation for anyone, anytime, anywhere to engage with New York City. 63

64 Voluntreers in Action Voluntreers came in all ages and sizes: some families came out with their kids, and whole classes signed up to help. 64

65 Voluntreers in Action Left: A group of voluntreers at a supervised training. Right: Voluntreer using a survey wheel to measure tree position. Last year, Parks was the largest purchaser of these survey wheels in North America. 65

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67 Goal: June 4, 2016 Civic Hall, NYC Foster collaboration between NYC Parks, tree-oriented community groups and volunteers, and the civic technology community to use open data to improve our care of the urban forest. 67

68 Event Design: Needs Based Approach Volunteers Community Partners NYC Parks staff Surveys and discussions Online survey and follow-up calls Workshops Source Questions for Challenge Development Identified demand on learning how to work with the data 68

69 Voluntreers Interest in TreesCount! data Where are the tree deserts? Where are more trees needed? Links to education, public health, salaries spreading trees to less privileged neighborhoods Compare tree data to population density, zoning, income Which tree species do well on hightraffic streets Changes over time Comparison to the 2005 census Where are the healthiest trees? Where are the trees with problems? Where more stewardship needs to happen Health of trees with stewardship 69

70 Five Data Jam Challenges Challenge roles Owners Mentors Facilitators Collaborate with Data Jam participants Give context and explain the challenges Support solution development 70

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72 Digging into TreesCount! Data Workshop 72

73 196 participants 23 projects conceived and built 6 prize winners 73

74 Data Jam Next Steps Event debrief and assessment In-depth presentations with project teams Explore avenues for further engagement 74

75 Questions? Project Team James Greenan - Information Technology Jacqueline Lu - Data Analytics James Pagano - Digital Media Jeff Watson - Forestry, Horticulture & Natural Resources

76 Please visit the Forum website to view past events and register for upcoming events 76