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.
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
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
ESRI founder Jack Dangermond recently made it for the first time to the Forbes 400 – he is worth approximately $2 billion. That’s a lot of ArcGIS licenses!! The conference next year should be fanastic!
Time for another GIS Day update. Planning is going well for our event on the Civic Center Mall on November 18. If the weather cooperates again, this will be even more fun than last year’s. First, my requests for help, then the planning status.
I’m looking for donations! Does your department have any goodies in the range of a $10-$15 value that it gives out at community events? Could it donate one or two as prizes for our contest? I’d like to have a drawing every half hour, so I need 11 or 12 items to give away. Please send me an email if you can contribute.
I will be asking our non-County exhibitors as well; last year, they were very generous. This year, however, there are far fewer of them and I’m hoping they will donate refreshments for the folks staffing the booths. Of course, if your department can help supply water, coffee and/or a simple snack, I’d be interested in hearing about that, too.
I’m looking for help with publicity! Please help get the word out, both within your department and to the public. Blog it, email the flyer to your friends or send it in to your local paper’s events listing. Contact me if you need more information on what to say.
Links to materials:
I’m looking for event day volunteers! Please send me an email if you can help:
We will have 30 booths, 3 or 4 emergency response vehicles, a larger map gallery than last year, a “Where in the County?” GIS game that uses our new oblique and ortho imagery and a raft of short presentations with headliners Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and CEO Bill Fujioka. Our list of confirmed exhibitors:
| County | Schools | Others |
| Assessor | Cal Poly Pomona | Census Bureau |
| BH | Rio Hondo | USGS |
| CEOOEM | UCLA | City of LA |
| CIO | USC | LA Rec & Parks |
| DHS | HealthyCity | |
| DMH | ESRI | |
| DPH | ||
| DPSS | Manley Solutions | |
| DPW | Thomas Brothers | |
| DRP | ||
| FIRE | ||
| ISD | ||
| LAR-IAC | ||
| Parks | ||
| RRCC |
We are still awaiting answers from one or two others but we are completely sold out. My thanks to Alma Vazquez, David Kwan and Vijay Manghirmalani for ongoing coordination with these groups.
In addition to the Supervisor and CEO, we have 6-8 presentations taking shape for the Speakers’ tent. I will publish the schedule as soon as we firm that up. Presentations will be no more than 15 minutes and should target a lay audience. DRP will provide audio and video support for the tent.
Last year’s map gallery had 30 panels and we ran out of space. This year, we will have 36.
The “Where in the County?” game will feature photos of nine County landmarks, chosen both for easy recognition and the quality of the views we have available. Contestants must correctly identify at least six to be entered into the next drawing. They won’t have to be present to win, but they do have to have attended the event (last year, some folks put in entries for their friends and co-workers, who were clueless when I called). We will empty the hopper after each drawing.
DWP is donating photographers and a videographer for the event. That should provide great material for us.
That’s it for now. Still plenty to do but I think it’s shaping up nicely. Thanks for participating.
Martha Selig
