GIS Day was a wonderful opportunity to learn and meet with people.
If you did not have a chance to come to ISD’s booth, you can download our video, poster, and fliers that we were displaying at the booth.
The Los Angeles County 2009 GIS Day Presentation Schedule has been uploaded to give you an idea of the presentations that will take place throughout the day (Wednesday, 11/18/09 – Downtown Los Angeles). Click here (PDF)
Of course, there will be demos, the maps display and GIS-equipped vehicles all day (9:30 am to 3:30 pm actually).
Full event information can be found by clicking here.
www.google.com/flushot (LA County DPH also contributing to this site.)
Presentation Schedule – Click here (PDF) NEW!
Our event is shaping up and things are almost ready for next week’s GIS Day Event. Our banner is up in the Civic Center Mall and we’re hoping to get a nice turnout.
Speaking of turnout. We really want to “show off” what we do with GIS in the County…it will be that much better the more folks we get down there. The courts are closed that day so a little less “juror” traffic… but the weather looks like it should cooperate for us; so maybe more folks will be out and about.
If you work Downtown and want to see some cool demos and see what GIS is all about. Come on down!
Full event information can be found by clicking here.
Built for the Los Angeles County Census 2010 Complete Count Committee and developed by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Regional Planning (with support from the eGIS team at ISD), this application shows Census “hard-to-count” data along with city/community boundaries and Supervisorial Districts. Now this information can be readily available to groups doing Census 2010 outreach (and reduce the number of hours required by traditional map preparation).
For more information about the 2010 Census go to http://2010.census.gov/2010census/
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Google is at it again, giving people a much sought-after free service, while taking a swipe at an entire industry.
Want to see where Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Systems have been installed? There is a new initiative from the DOE to do just that. I hope it will help us with our LA County Solar Map – http://solarmap.lacounty.gov
Here is the site: http://openpv.nrel.gov/
It has some pretty cool mapping and analytical tools for the cost of solar over the years, here: http://openpv.nrel.gov/visualization/index But it is only aggregated to a state level, so we need more details.
Here is the full release:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the beta release of the Open PV Mapping Project. The Open PV Mapping Project is a collaborative effort between government, industry, and the public that will develop a comprehensive database of photovoltaic (PV) installation data for the United States. The project is the largest installation database with over 50,000 entries.
The project will provide a Web-based resource for users to easily understand the current status and past progress of the PV industry from the data that show current and recent trends of the PV market. Additionally, users may add their own PV installation data, browse PV data entered by others, and view statistics. Moving forward, NREL will add additional data and use this information to drive further analysis of market growth.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the beta release of the Open PV Mapping Project. The Open PV Mapping Project is a collaborative effort between government, industry, and the public that will develop a comprehensive database of photovoltaic (PV) installation data for the United States. The project is the largest installation database with over 50,000 entries.
The project will provide a Web-based resource for users to easily understand the current status and past progress of the PV industry from the data that show current and recent trends of the PV market. Additionally, users may add their own PV installation data, browse PV data entered by others, and view statistics. Moving forward, NREL will add additional data and use this information to drive further analysis of market growth.
The City of LA DOT has a new site with live (AVL – automatic vehicle locator) bus status and routes. It’s a trip planner too. It’s a Google Mashup.
Take a look at: http://dtdash.com
-Nick F
Fred Dominguez was able to attend the recent URISA conference in Anaheim, and passed a very nice presentation along discussing the integration of Twitter and GIS.
Thanks Fred!
Here is the presentation.
I wanted to pass this along to folks who are using Google Maps …
Dear Premier customers,
We just made some changes to our map data for the United States that may affect your applications. Please read the post on the Google LatLong blog for full details, and the note below for more info on possible effects on your maps.
We’re excited to bring new features and functionality to Google Maps API Premier including: comprehensive parcel data, more detailed natural features like parks and water bodies, and new base map data types like bike paths and university campus maps. These updates have improved geocoding accuracy as well as our imagery/data alignment, and we’ll be making even more improvements going forward.
How does this update impact Maps API Premier customers? The data that powers API features like geocoding and driving directions has been updated. If you’re using client-side geocoding in the browser, your applications will automatically start using the new data. If you’ve been using the HTTP geocoder and caching any retrieved data, you should re-geocode with the new data as soon as possible. With the “Report a Problem” feature, we’ll be updating the map data regularly, so we recommend that you continue to refresh any cached data in order to take advantage of the latest data too.
We’re excited about this launch, and also pleased to announce that this move should shorten the time it takes to push corrections to the map to less than a month. Corrections to base data can now be quickly reported and tracked with the new “Report a Problem” link to communicate directly with us about any updates or corrections that you think need to be made to our maps. Our Google Enterprise Technical Support team is standing by to assist you if you have any questions and to make sure any issues are resolved quickly, at support.google.com/enterprise.
Thanks for your patience as we roll this out!
Google Enterprise Maps Team
