Requester
Notification date: 4/10/2009
Agency Name: City of Boise (same as Managing Agency)
Contact Person: Eric Wing
Phone: 384-3936
E-mail: ewing@cityofboise.org
Data set name (data type if necessary): Residential Trash Collection Days
Description of change request/notification: Effective April 13, 2009 Boise City no longer maintains the GIS polygon data set depicting service areas for residential trash collection days.
Purpose for the change: As many of you know Allied Waste recently made significant changes to the residential trash collection days in Ada County. For several years Boise Public Works GIS staff has maintained a ‘Residential Trash Collection Days’ GIS layer that has been used for various PDF maps, online maps, and applications across the city. However, Allied Waste has recently delved into the realm of GoogleMaps to relay service information to the public.
See: http://www.alliedwasteidaho.com/trash-and-recycling/collection-map.php?location=Boise&location_uid=43d63cda40df5becafd37e0943bf0458
The Public Works Environmental Division, for whom the Boise ‘Residential Trash Collection Days’ GIS data is maintained, has determined that this data set it is no longer needed now that Allied Waste provides an alternative for the public. Our preliminary findings have been that having the Residential Trash Collection Day data in-house, on our own GIS system is a ‘nice to have’ but by not a ‘must have’. There are no known critical dependencies that will significantly inhibit city business.
Anyone wanting to obtain residential trash route data will need to I contact Mark Thompson, AR Supervisor with Allied Waste (phone 208-685-7753 or Mark.Thompson@awin.com) Mark is maintaining in a KML format so you will need to have the Data Interoperability Extension or some other converter to be able to use the data in ArcMap. Anyone more familiar working with Google might have other tips and tricks. My apologies for the late notice. We did not get any advanced warning on this and really have no alternatives but to drop maintenance on this dataset.
Managing Agency
Agency Name: City of Boise
Lead Contact Person: Eric Wing
Phone: 384-3936
E-mail: ewing@cityofboise.org
Potential impact to end users (best guess): To date we have not regularly distributed this dataset outside of Boise City. We do not expect this to be of too much concern to our business partners. We do know that crime analysis staff has interest in this data. They will be limited to the website from Allied Waste unless they can find alternatives.
Feedback deadline (if applicable): No deadline. This message is a notification. I am open to any comments or concerns. However, the direction from the data authorities has been committed.
Feedback preference (phone, email, other): No preference. Phone, email, or personal
communication.
Decisions: The Boise Trash routes data has been ‘officially’ abdicated by the original owners in Public Works. At this time there is no department at Boise City that has defined a strong need and is willing to commit the time to maintain this dataset or willing to utilize massage Allied Waste’s Google data.
Change Implementation date: April 13, 2009