VESTRA was contracted by Xtech, a firm providing development services to the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF), to develop a field-based Ad Sign Survey application. This GIS application allows CCSF staff to perform lot-by-lot verification and correction of an existing Ad Sign Survey database. This database was migrated into a new geodatabase designed by VESTRA.

The application lets users click on a city block within the map, then add or edit sign information for signs located on that block. The application also supports collection of photo images using an attached digital camera for each ad sign in the inventory.

The application was built as a custom ArcMap/ArcGIS ArcView extension. VESTRA also developed a set of custom geoprocessing scripts that will allow CCSF personnel to extract and synchronize data collected in the field with the main geodatabase.

At VESTRA, we are committed to ensuring our clients fully understand and are able to use the applications we develop for them easily. The application was designed to be user-friendly, and CCSF staff were able to test and deploy the application without formal training and only minimal support from VESTRA.