Cabo To Do

1)Joint GIS database production phase

  1. General Issues
  2. Which basic skills to teach
  3. Which existing skills of some to use/rely-on
  4. Who does what
  5. Base Data
  6. Conversion from CAD

2)GIS Server and Web Site Issues

  1. Platform Choice
  2. Evaluation ArcGIS Server and fast?
  3. Use open source GeoServer/Map Server for data?
  4. Can/should ArcGIS read/write to Geoserver/WFS?
  5. Data policies and documentation
  6. How aggressive a posture to take on public access to study data?
  7. One possibility: create derived work from all base data and put ownership of derived work explicitly into the public domain
  8. Another: ask data donators for permission to use only within confines of academic research, not providing anything beyond image-of-data level public access
  9. Student Tasks
  10. Data layer responsibility
  11. Documenting existing classifications/taxonomies
  12. Documenting future-oriented classifications/taxonomies
  13. Creating/managing ArcSketch symbol palette for their layers
  14. Geographic subregion responsibility
  15. ?Use/accept existing plan subgeography boundaries as is?
  16. How to handle shoreline and near-shore environment?
  17. How to handle Sierra la Laguna, Cabo Pulmo & Cabo San Lucas existing reserves & their boundaries
  18. Gathering / correcting existing conditions data in GPS/GIS
  19. Gathering photographic documentation of conditions
  20. Evaluation models/tasks
  21. How to stage given studio site visit
  22. Have students pick an area of evaluation on second day of site visit? Have them decide which data are likely to be most critical to their evaluation and propose a data collection strategy?
  23. Provide good base maps (how?) for easy in-field annotation when lacking GPS
  24. Standardized handling of digital imagery collection/documation? (For example, want best/worst case practices examples georeferenced for each model/theme?), want each categorization category illustrated visually
  25. Likely evaluation models
  26. Transportation, including tourist and local residents
  27. Hotel/resort economics, including externalities
  28. Scenic and visual quality
  29. Terrestrial & aquatic biodiversity
  30. Water – including fresh water, desal, wastewater treatment
  31. Energy
  32. Social equity/LOS for education/healthcare/and all of the other factors above?

3)For Edu

  1. CAD Conversion/documentation
  2. Open all CAD dwg files
  3. Create spreadsheet of layer names in Spanish, with rough English translation if known
  4. Document class/group of layer, and feature type
  5. Document number of features
  6. Base Map Creation
  7. Based on paper city maps
  8. add major road names
  9. add key landmarks (resort names?)
  10. Figure out how to tile / subdivide geography
  11. Geography for subdivisions from report?

4)Transportation Team

  1. Site visit tasks
  2. Inventory major roads, and primary feeders
  3. Input major road names in GIS
  4. Develop/refine roads classification
  5. including multimodal characteristics (pedestrian, bike?)
  6. including street trees, improvements
  7. Develop rapid transit assessment survey for locals/tourists?
  8. Do selected traffic counts?
  9. Inventory or look for opportunities/problems and transportation upgrade proposals

5)Economics Team

  1. Site visit tasks
  2. Gather data for spatial model of hotel and real estate amenities
  3. Gather data on typical tourist activities based on natural amenities (views, beaches, clean water, fishing, diving), cultural amenities (historic buildings, etc), accessibility (price, distance, convenience)
  4. What determines relative competitive advantage of Cabo versus other potential resort destinations?

6)Scenic and Visual Quality Team

  1. Create visual georeferenced database
  2. Gather building height information on major hotels
  3. Create/administer rapid visual survey?

7)Biodiversity Team

  1. On Site Activities
  2. Interview Sierra La Laguna administrator, Cabo Pulmo, etc.
  3. Interview TNC
  4. Visit current & proposed protected areas, photographing habitats
  5. Term Goals
  6. Develop defensible terrestrial and aquatic landscape ecology model of Cabo priority habitat areas
  7. For priority areas not under current conservation, develop acquisition strategy, potentially with multiple use zones (flood protection, tourism, etc.)

8)Water (2 Person team?)

  1. Surface water protection / flooding
  2. Water supply
  3. Wastewater treatment

9)Energy

  1. Team Goals
  2. Develop a model of current energy use
  3. Model potential policy & physical design interventions