1. In East Central Wisconsin, a Land Use Inventory Helps Plan a Sustainable Future Efficient Land Use Planning in Nunavut In East Central Wisconsin, a Land Use Inventory Helps Plan a Sustainable Future Efficient Land Use Planning in Nunavut Presented By: Mai Osama Abd El-Hamied By: Leica Geosystems Web Address : www.esri.com/ library /reprints/pdfs/arcnews_eastwisconsin.pdf Topic Number: 14 Date: FALL 2003

2. East central Wisconsin offers small-town living of good quality-strong economy, low crime rate, and abundant natural resources and recreational facilities. east central Wisconsin is striving to balance opportunities for growth while planning a sustainable future for generations to come. In 1999. the state of Wisconsin (enacted land use legislation in 1999 entitled Smart Growth for Wisconsin), which requires every village, town,city, and county in the state to be guided (by a Smart Growth by 2010).

3.  The purpose of Smart Growth is to ensure responsible planning.  restrict sprawl.  ensure the health of urban and rural communities. The East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission services about 5,900-square-mile region with a population of more than 600,000 including urban areas, agricultural and forestry zones, rural towns and villages.

4. Population increase,agricultural process modifications,and other land use changes have fueled the desire to manage current and future land use as well as preserve natural resources and the rural character of the region. which is a (new land use inventory). which is a (new land use inventory). This new land use inventory by digital aerial photography using ArcInfo and ArcView software from ESRI and IMAGINE OrthoBASE software from Leica Geosystems GIS &Mapping.

5. The result of urban sprawl required construction and relocation of USH 10 in the region.(Source:Appleton Post Crescent)

6. ESRI.s software has been the standard GIS software at the Commission for the past 13 years, but IMAGINE OrthoBASE was chosen following a review of several desktop aerial photography georeferencing products. The work for this project,performed on four Intel PCs. The staff: - GIS coordinator The staff: - GIS coordinator -GIS project manager -GIS project manager -an information technology specialist -an information technology specialist -General GIS technicians -General GIS technicians - student interns - student interns

7. The project addresses the lack of digital land use data in a consistent format, The project addresses the lack of digital land use data in a consistent format, from a single time frame,for the region. from a single time frame,for the region. Four GIS base layers were used as input for the land use inventory project:  Parcels  road rights-of-way  Hydro  municipal boundaries

8. The Commission began the project in 2000 expects to complete in 2004. The completed land use inventory is in use at counties performing town-based land use planning,such as Waushara and Shawano. The Technical Services staff began by:

9.  creating a standard basemap for the land use inventory project,projecting the acquired GIS basemap layers into the Commission.s coordinate system and converting the attribute data to match the Commission’s GIS digital data mapping standards using ArcInfo.  Then, converted the acquired existing land use data and its attributes to the mapping standards and added them to the database. (checked the acquired land use data against the new aerial photography as a quality control measure) (checked the acquired land use data against the new aerial photography as a quality control measure)

10. *The nongeoreferenced data was displayed next to georeferenced data on the computer screen with IMAGINE OrthoBASE software.A series of control points was created by selecting a feature on the photography that was in both the georeferenced and nongeoreferenced photography. *The nongeoreferenced data was displayed next to georeferenced data on the computer screen with IMAGINE OrthoBASE software.A series of control points was created by selecting a feature on the photography that was in both the georeferenced and nongeoreferenced photography. *The Commission is one of the first planning agencies in Wisconsin to georeference its own aerial photography in-house. *The Commission is one of the first planning agencies in Wisconsin to georeference its own aerial photography in-house.

11. Top:Using ArcView 8.x,the vectoring process is completed by editing arcs of a land use base shapefile.Bottom:Using IMAGINE OrthoBASE software,horizontal control is acquired through the use of an existing orthophotograph to capture ground control points in order to orthorectify the 2000 aerial photo.(Source:Waushara County,1992,2000)

12.  Technician used ArcView to outline land use areas by performing heads-up digitizing on georeferenced aerial photography that was overlaid with GIS basemap information (parcels,roads,civil boundaries,and hydrology).  The technician interpreted the land use,created a and assigned a land use code based on the Commission ‘s regional land use coding scheme. The polygons were cleaned and topology was built.The resulting ArcInfo coverage was finally added to the GIS database for use in planning projects. The polygons were cleaned and topology was built.The resulting ArcInfo coverage was finally added to the GIS database for use in planning projects.

13. GIS technicians wrote a Visual Basic coding routine in ArcView 8.x to populate the land use polygontable. (Top and bottom source:City of Fond du Lac,Wisconsin)

14. The land use inventory project, a basic building block of the planning process, will help ensure that the counties serviced by the Commission can successfully plan and manage the future. For more information on this project, contact Trish Nau,East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (e- mail:tnau@eastcentralrpc.org),or visit www.eastcentralrpc.org on the Web.For more information on spatial solutions,contact Leica Geosystems GIS &Mapping (toll free in the United States at 1-877-463-7327 or outside the United States at 1-404-248-9000),or visit Leica Geosystems GIS &Mapping at gis.leica- geosystems.com on the Web.