ADA & PROWAG Compliance in the ROWSmarter Geospatial Workflows
Explore how GIS, AI, and imagery are transforming how agencies document, audit, and report ADA and PROWAG compliance across sidewalks, ramps, and crossings—empowering local governments to build safer, more inclusive public spaces.
Key Takeaways
- Smart Baselines: Learn how to establish ADA and PROWAG-compliant digital baselines for sidewalks, ramps, and crossings.
- AI-Driven Insight: Discover how imagery and AI can accelerate accessibility audits and prioritize improvements.
- Defensible Reporting: Understand how to create verifiable GIS workflows that withstand audits and support grant applications.
- Equitable Infrastructure: See how spatial data can help ensure equitable, inclusive access across all public rights-of-way.
Why Attend?
Meeting accessibility mandates under PROWAG and ADA is often slowed by manual surveys, incomplete records, and fragmented accountability. Without digital baselines, cities struggle to defend compliance or prioritize improvements efficiently.
Who Should Attend
- ADA coordinators
- GIS managers
- Public works directors
- Transportation planners
- Capital improvement officers
Agenda
- Using high-resolution imagery and LiDAR to assess curb ramps, cross slopes, and surface conditions.
- Automating accessibility inventories with AI-assisted feature extraction and GIS data integration.
- Building defensible compliance records and public-facing dashboards for transparency.
- Aligning ADA transition plans with PROWAG standards through spatial data baselining.
- Cross-department coordination—connecting engineering, planning, and public works through shared GIS layers.
Presenters
Dr. Nikolas Smilovsky
PhD, GISP
Geospatial Solutions Director
Bad Elf
Nikolas Smilovsky, PhD, GISP is a Geospatial Evangelist, Solutions Provider, and Educator, as well as Geospatial Solutions Director with Bad Elf. For nearly two decades Nik has focused his efforts on the professional and academic expansion of the geospatial professions. Whether working for a plethora of different types of private consulting firms collecting, analyzing, and displaying geographic data or working as an academic, researching and contributing to the corpus of educational knowledge, his passion in life is geography. As an energetic and enthusiastic public speaker, teacher, and thought leader he has enjoyed sharing successes with others and seeing them flourish. Specifically, his interests in the geospatial fields include the geography of behavior, sustainable and resilient geodesign, geographic science pedagogy (especially online education), and geospatial technologies as a whole. Nik loves innovative GIS tech and is a Geoholic! He is also a certified arborist, UAS Remote Pilot and Esri ArcGIS professional.
