PARKS AND RECREATION
IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Parks and recreation play a fundamental role in enhancing quality of life and community health. A GIS-centric framework can help your organization move from reactive maintenance to proactive asset management—saving time and money while improving operations and planning.
HERE’S HOW WE CAN HELP
- Create an inventory of all your assets, from benches and trees to buildings and trails.
- Empower field crews with mobile tools and real-time work updates.
- Gain insights into seasonal shifts in labor, costs, and materials.
- Leverage data analysis tools to prioritize repairs, renovation, and replacement.
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Seeing the Forest and the Trees in the City of Arborly Love
There may be no city in America that loves trees more than Philadelphia. More than 10 percent of Philadelphia’s land area—16 square miles—is home to the largest managed urban park system in the world. With more than 2 million park and street trees, Philadelphia’s living assets outnumber people. Under the care of the Philadelphia Department …
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5 Benefits of GIS-Centric Asset Management for Urban Forestry
The impact that trees have within our urban environments is often overlooked and underestimated. Trees not only bring beauty to our cities, they also improve a community’s overall health and well-being. Healthy urban canopies can help clean the air, cut energy consumption by up to 25%, boost property value, reduce costs associated with stormwater management …
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6 Tips for Streamlining Urban Forestry with Cityworks
Every urban forestry department faces unique challenges when it comes to their tree inventory. These challenges can range from ineffective field workflows to working in a limited cellular connection environment to keeping track of equipment, labor, and material (ELM) on each project. Your organization needs a customizable solution to support your internal budget and workforce …
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