Los Angeles County Enterprise GIS

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.

• I’ve registered our event online and that links to our eGIS GIS Day web page. Please be sure to look at these links and send me your suggestions for improving them.
• The County Digest will print a version of the flyer created by Dionne Lyman-Chapman of ISD, who will also create our banner this year.
• PIO Judy Hammond will post our flyer on the County Portal several weeks before the event.
• Nick Franchino is preparing a memo to the Admin Deputies.
• Douglass Dorado will include notice of the event at LAFCO.
• I have requested assistance from the PR staff at ACWM, Parks & Rec and DPW who were recommended to me in one of our early planning surveys.

Links to materials:

• Original flyer for 2009
• Flyer created by Dionne Lyman-Chapman
• Site plan created by Hwa Saup Lee
• Parking for county vehicles
• Parking map created by Michael Chong of CDC of low-cost parking lots served by B DASH bus

I’m looking for event day volunteers! Please send me an email if you can help:

• put maps up before the event starts or take them down afterwards
• take a stint in the GIS Day game booth
• help exhibitors find their booth as they arrive

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:

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

September 24th, 2009 | Category: Announcements, GIS Day | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL