2024 SAG Award Winners

City of Greenville, SC

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Project Goal

AccessGVL was developed to provide people with disabilities detailed information about the accessibility of restaurants, accessible parking locations, best accessible paths from nearest parking garages to restaurants, and potential barriers to accessible travel within the City of Greenville, SC downtown area.
The main functions of AccessGVL are the search for restaurants, search for parking, and viewing the paths on a map.
For the restaurant search, ADA compliance experts continue to survey downtown restaurants to determine accessibility levels for items such as the main entry, table heights/arrangements, lighting and noise levels, pathways through restaurant, and restroom access. This information is summarized and provided to the user in an easy to read format.
For the parking search, the locations, descriptions, and photos of accessible on-street parking and city-owned garage spaces were captured and are displayed.
All information is available in an "info" or map format.
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Business Problem Solved

Improved mobility and accessibility in downtown City of Greenville.

Technology Implemented

Field Maps is being used to capture accessible parking locations, barriers to sidewalk travel, accessible ramps, elevators, and public bathrooms.
Survey123 is used by the ADA inspectors to enter summarized information about the accessibility of each restaurant. AccessGVL is using the feature layer from this survey directly.
ArcGIS Pro is used to fine tune some edits to data captured by Field Maps and to draw the best accessible routes from parking garages to restaurants. Pro is also used to build the vector basemap that is created especially for this application (using guidelines by Esri).

An editing Instant App is used by the team to add text attribution for additional details that are needed for the features that were too much to type in Field Maps.
ArcGIS Online Web Maps used for building the application within Experience Builder. Arcade and detailed HTML used for the popup information.
Experience Builder used for the final application which was customized for PC,tablet,and

Development Team Biography

Mike Jank - Risk Manager and ADA Coordinator,City of Greenville
Chris Sparrow - Program Manager, Barbara Stone Foundation, Greenville CAN (Chris is the person in the video in AccessGVL)
Lara Ceisel - Executive Director - Barbara Stone Fdtn
The 3 above were the people who had the idea of making information available to the public. They joined forces and obtained approval from City Council to work on the project.
MIke and Chris are the ADA experts who survey each restaurant and captured data within Field Maps. Both provide information to GIS about other data that GIS edits.
On the GIS side:
Carmen Durham, GIS Technical Manager. 21 years at the City, almost 30 years in GIS. Coordinator for the project from the GIS perspective and built the Experience Builder application.
Jeff McLeroy - GIS Analyst II - Jeff has been with the City for 30+ years. Jeff has been responsible for building the layers and maps for Field Maps and training team on collection process.
Tiffany Bledsoe - left