Tauranga City Council (TCC) recognized that their poorly maintained assets had led to a loss of trust from the community and a decline in civic pride. Historically reliant on contractors for asset maintenance, TCC decided to establish a new business unit to take direct control of these responsibilities. They started by maintaining parks and reserves, and the project's success encouraged further expansion. TCC's recently migrated ArcGIS Enterprise in AWS (managed by Eagle) empowered employees to perform asset maintenance tasks efficiently in the field. This platform also enables supervisors in the office to access real-time data, allowing for informed decision-making and improved oversight. Building on this success, TCC has now successfully integrated the maintenance of unique assets like trees and complex assets like facilities into their system. Currently, they are utilising Esri tools such as ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS Survery123, ArcGIS Experience Builder, and ArcGIS Pro. These applications integrate seamlessly with the council's ecosystem, particularly the asset management system, enhancing overall efficiency and coordination

Since its first release, the Pocket Maps App Studio app developed by Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa | Outdoor Access Commission, has been well received by the outdoor recreation community for helping users see public land from their device and be safe in the outdoors. But consistently the one feature users wished for is for offline topographic basemaps overlaid by public land, so they could navigate terrain and explore the map with a much greater level of detail.

This year, the decision was made to develop a basemap in-house and host it on ArcGIS Online. For this project, the team developed a new vector topographic basemap for Pocket Maps using LINZ Topo50 datasets, LCDB5 and a vector hillshade. The basemap's design was intended to mirror the Topo50 series cartographic style. This work resulted in the recent release of a flexible and fast vector tile basemap for Pocket Maps, that can be updated and edited easily using the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.

An automated end-to-end vector tile basemap pipeline was developed for authoring maps, packaging vector tile packages, publishing vector tile services, updating vector tile services and updating offline areas for maps in ArcGIS Online. The data pipeline utilises a range of tools including WFS,  ArcGIS API for Python and Python Notebooks.

After release, the team expanded the use of the topographic basemap to include internal operations supporting Te Araroa in their offline fieldwork capturing trail assets, using ArcGIS Field Maps and is intended to be used in future field projects.

This presentation aims to break down the pro's and con's and detail of authoring your own vector tile basemaps in a way that is not too daunting and will hopefully show that it can be done by anyone in any organisation to help people be safer in the outdoors.

This presentation outlines the methodologies and significance of monitoring possum populations as part of conservation efforts aimed at protecting native ecosystems. Possums, an invasive species, pose a significant threat to biodiversity due to their impact on native flora and fauna. Effective monitoring of possum populations is crucial for evaluating the success of trapping and control operations, guiding adaptive management strategies, and ensuring long-term ecological balance.