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City shows revamped parks story map, adds trail videos and project pages

Operation Advisory Board, City of Garland Parks and Recreation · August 5, 2026
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Summary

GIS analyst Evelyn Esparza demonstrated a city parks story map with park and trail pages, walk-through videos and a new park-projects map; staff reported nearly 12,000 story-map views and growing engagement.

Evelyn Esparza, the city’s GIS analyst, walked the board through recent enhancements to the parks website, including a parks story map that lists amenities, acreage and photos for each park, a trails map with walk-through videos, and a new park-projects page that will host plans and up-to-date photos. "This is our landing page," Esparza said, then demonstrated navigation from the city site to the parks story map and emphasized mobile compatibility and user-friendly photos.

Esparza said the Parks story map has about 11,900 views to date, the trails page about 6,100, and the newly uploaded park-projects content roughly 850 views. She said walk-through videos are edited with PMR, linked to YouTube, and that staff plan a recreation-specific site to spotlight rec-center amenities and videos such as slide demos or lazy-river impressions to help visitors know what to expect.

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