Thanks to all who attended the EGIS Committee meeting on Tuesday 09/22/09.
Click HERE to view the powerpoint presentation in .pdf format (http://dpwgis.co.la.ca.us/website/egis/ladpwGoogleMapsApps.pdf)!
(Road Closures Application)
The ESRI Bible for System Design. This is valuable for folks looking to design enterprise GIS systems.
There are two videos, each compressing the past three years into one minute of time. The two videos were created by the eGIS Group (Yoko Myers) and myself to show a more dynamic view of the information that the Assessor provided for a board response. I believe they provide an additional, dramatic, and unique way to visualize how the current crisis has unfolded over the past three years.
I think these videos are something that can be used to really convey the true extent of what is happening in the County, and hope you find them interesting .
I have created a set of instructions on how the videos were created, so that folks who want to do something similar will avoid all of the pitfalls that we went through.
This document is critical for County web developers, programmers, as well as county contractors, to understand and leverage the Web Services available at the Enterprise GIS. It will instruct, in plain English, how developers can use the services, how to point to them, and what benefits they can provide.
If you pass this to your web developers, they will be able to add GIS capabilities into web sites.
County of Los Angeles GIS Web Services (Feburary 16,2009).pdf
Jonathan Corbridge from ESRI sent the Sheriff and me this very good list of case studies on how GIS supports law enforcement. I wanted to pass it along. To summarize the business benefits, Law Enforcement Agencies use GIS to:
more details and links to case studies follow …
Hello everyone,
In the midst of this economic downturn, foreclosures are a key way to map the health of communities and direct response from government. In support of a Board Request, the Assessor has worked with the eGIS Program to create a GIS layer of properties that have been foreclosed in the past three years. This is available to County staff in the Enterprise GIS Repository. Let me know if you have access questions.
Interestingly, the Sheriff department had just passed me: Geography and Public Safety Volume 1 issue 3 – which discussed using GIS layers of Foreclosure to support crime reduction and active policing …
What was interesting to me was the amount of coordination this took, and the departments involved. Overall, there are six departments that touched this request:
Is this collaboration or what? 5 departments working together to help our citizens …
We are making a concerted effort to showcase the value of GIS through the development of case studies that highlight existing applications, projects, programs, and initiatives that leverage the power of GIS to provide benefits to the business of the County.
Many agencies understand the value of GIS, but are reluctant to invest precious resources without a clear direction and benefit – and the case studies give leaders a simple way to scan through tried and true implementations to find systems that they can implement quickly.
I invite non-County agencies to use these, and even better, provide case studies that we will add to the list. The long-term goal will be to have case studies in a variety of fields, with a simple, one page write up that quickly lists the problems and solutions.
What is it?
It is similar to the AICP certification for planners except GISP does not have a written test, at least not yet as testing is being considered. For now, it is portfolio based where you document your 1) Education, 2) Experience, and 3) Contributions to the GIS profession. Minimum points are required in each of these three categories. There is also a grandfather clause which expires on 1/1/2009. This clause allows for GISP qualification with a minimum of 8 years of GIS experience without requiring proof of education or contributions to the profession; only work experience must be documented. Certification lasts for 5 years, after which re-certification is required.
The GISP pilot program was started in late 2003 by the GIS Certification Institute http://gisci.org/ and went public in 2004. Recently the National Association of Counties (NACo) endorsed GISP by expressing its support for credentialing of county GIS personnel. To date 4 states have endorsed GISP – Ohio, New Jersey, Oregon and North Carolina. UPDATE: California became the 5th state to endorse GISP certification per press release dated 4/30/2008; California GIS Council click on News link in the lower left.
http://gisci.org/PDFs/NACo_Newsletter.pdf (see page 2 of PDF)
So if you are considering whether or not to apply, keep in mind that the grandfather clause expires beginning of 2009 (Application must be post-marked by 12/31/2008).
Originally posted on the LA Co. Regional Planning Dept. GIS Section blog.
Visit www.gisci.org for more info.
Roman
Access to live data from via EMIS in Google.
The September eGIS Committee Meeting was quite full of information. Special thanks to Patricia Araki from Public Health who provided an informative demonstration of spatial-temporal disease surveillance.
Here are the documents
Let me know if you have any questions …
