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The fastest way to find traffic count
sites, is to zoom into the general area where you are looking for a
traffic count. If one is available, it will then be displayed when
the Traffic Counts layer, under the Transportation folder, is turned
on.
However, if you are not sure of the
general area, the best alternative is to use the Find tool to search
for the street in the traffic count layer. To use the Find tool, you
will need to make the Traffic Counts layer the active layer. Also,
to speed up the response time, all of the layers except for the
Traffic Counts layer should be turned off and shorthand
abbreviations should be used for the road names (e.g. CR instead of
C.R. or County Road).
- Open either the Main GIS Map or the Transportation viewer.
- Open the Elkhart layer folder and uncheck the cities, civil
townships, and county layer checkboxes.
- Open the St. Joseph layer folder and uncheck the cities, civil
townships, and county layer checkboxes.
- Open the Transportation folder and check the Traffic Counts
checkbox.
- Select the Traffic Counts radio button to make the layer
active. This will also refresh the map without having to click
the Refresh Map button on the top of the screen.
- Click on the Find (binoculars) tool in the toolbox to the left
of the map. This will display the Find application in the Query
Results Frame below the map.
- Type in one of the roads you are looking for counts on (e.g.
US 33). This will return all of the sites that mention the road
you are looking for.
- In the returned results, the second column is the street the
traffic count is located on (e.g. MAIN STREET [US 33]). The
third column is the location of the site on that street (e.g. N
OF CR 26). When the number in the first column (Rec) is clicked
on, the map viewer zooms in on the location of that record.
- By turning on the appropriate Street Centerline layer (Elkhart
or St. Joseph), the nearby geography can be determined. By
zooming in on the site more, the aerial photography should be
displayed. By selecting the hyperlink
tool and clicking on the accident site, you can also bring
up a ground-level photo of the count site (if available).
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