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GIS and the Tourism Industry

Dan AkeGIS Specialist

SEDA - Council of Governments201 Furnace Rd

Lewisburg, PA 17837

www.seda-cog.org


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What are we going to talk about? The tourism industry

GIS use in the tourism industry

Valleys of the Susquehanna GIS project

Property database Use of Local GIS datasets

Routing considerations Observations


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Sectors of Tourism Industry

Accommodations hotels, motels, b&b, etc.

Attractions theme parks, museums, national

parks, heritage sites, etc. Transport Systems airlines, railways,

bus/coach operators, car rental; ferries, etc. Travel Organizers tour operators, travel

agents, conference organizers, etc.

Destination Organizations visitors bureaus,

tourism offices, tourism associations, etc.


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Economic Importance of Travel

and Tourism to PA Economy

Direct $20.5 Billion 419,680

Indirect $16.7 Billion 197,910

Total $37.2 Billion 617,590

2001Sales Jobs

Sources: PACVB, D K Shifflet and Assoc., PA Office of Tourism

Tourism is everybody's business


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Market Share of US Leisure Travel

Source: 2001 Pennsylvania Year End Report D.K. Shifflet & Assoc.

1

23

4

56

7

8

9

10

Top 10 States


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Where do PA leisure travelers come from?


42%

5%

11%

9%

12%

4%

2001 non-resident tourists 51.4 million


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Where do leisure travelers go in

Pennsylvania?

27.0%20.7%

14.5%

13.7%

7.4%

7.3%

5.4%

4.1%



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In the Tourism Industry, GIS is used to provide:

Digital files for internet mapping A digital basemap for printed maps

Digital files for mobile mapping


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The Valleys of the Susquehanna GIS Project

Attractions Map Website with Interactive Mapping


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Valleys project options/considerations

Develop a Customized Application Partner with Commercial firm to license

existing application


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Mapeze - Newedge Technologies

Designed by the owners of Inn on the Lake,Nova Scotia, Canada

2001 ESRI (Canada) Award for innovation

in the field of Geographic Information

Systems


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Mapeze

InstallationsCanadianCommercial

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick

LabradorNewfoundland

Provincial

Nova ScotiaSaskatchewan

County-City

Essex-Windsor

USAValleys of the Susquehanna,

(Pennsylvania)


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Development Steps

Property database

Mapping layers

Routing


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You can type or copy your description

from elsewhere and paste into this page


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Local Data

Advantages Data is Current

Spatial Accuracy

Disadvantages

Not in common database format

Not edge-matched

Missing some key information


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Unifying the database

Converted the local database into thePennsylvania Geospatial Data Sharing

Standard

This also assigns a unique identifier forfuture updates


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Merging data\Edge-matching

After the databases meshed, we merged theshapefiles

Edge-matched the county datasets to each

other

Edge-matched the unified dataset to the

surrounding counties where we used aPennDOT dataset


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Making database consistent and

Filling in missing gaps

Fix the spelling making attributesconsistent

(i.e. Road vs. RD)

Classify the roads (i.e. Interstates, US Routes, Primary and

Secondary State Routes, and Local Roads)

Delete unnecessary fields to reduce the filesize


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Routing Considerations Affordable initial costs, ongoing costs

Accurate road data correct directions for one-way streets

Compatible with SEDA-COG server Work with local datasets for mapping accurate

and current


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Routing Options

Use routing software and data (pay forlicensing)

Use routing service (pay for each map

impression)

Hybrid Use local data for mapping and a

routing service for routing and addressing(pay for each route calculation)


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Routing ComparisonsTested with the cooperation of Mapeze

ESRI RouteMap IMS with North American Datasets(GDT)

ESRI RouteMap IMS with compressed and edited local

data (would be developed in cooperation with ESRI)

ESRI ArcWeb with GDT data (pay per impression)

Maptuit with NavTec data (pay per impression)

Test of routing on one-way streets


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Selected Option

ESRI RouteMap IMS with North American Datasets(GDT)

ESRI RouteMap IMS with compressed and edited local

data (would be developed in cooperation with ESRI) ESRI ArcWeb with GDT data (pay per impression)

Maptuit with NavTec data (pay per impression)

Maptuit with NavTec data

Demonstration of functionality of


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Demonstration of functionality of

Mapeze Application

Proximity Searches using database and map
http://seda-cog.mapeze.com/


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Future Additions to the Valleys

of the Susquehanna GIS Project

Genealogical Resources

Historical societies and library locations

Cemeteries

Eco-tourism Heritage

Walking tours of Historic Districts

Hiking and Biking Trails Water Trails


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Observations

Working with consortiums such as the

Valleys takes patience and lots of time

Project can only move at the pace of the

slowest member.

Mapeze has been a very cooperative partner

Similar tourism portals with interactivemapping will become common


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The Launch!

WWW.PAVALLEYS.COM

Soft Launch is slated for Mid November

Hard Launch is slated for Janurary

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