Information sharing for LA County GIS users
This is an interesting article from James Killick about GIS data standards. His analogy is to shipping containers that were standardized in the mid 1950’s and he provides a couple of examples of worldwide standards that were implemented successfully. The…
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This comes up in the discussion about the Digital Divide and equity. These maps were released just in the last couple of weeks. Take a look. Main site – https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home Download site – https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/data-download Some of the discussion about this in…
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ANOTHER UPDATE: One day we’ll do something like this. Originally, I saw this on LinkedIn (in 2019). Vermont is actually pretty similar to Los Angeles County. We had discussed doing something like this. I had setup a draft for 2017…
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Reposting (from the SoCal GIS Blog)… This is an article about total EV charging stations in the US. It also has a nice interactive map. Link to article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90744415/animated-map-of-ev-charging-stations-shows-huge-dead-zones-around-the-country (There’s a shorter than 3 min video there too with some cool…
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This is the 2021 ArcGIS Online Year in Review from Bern Szukalski of Esri. Bern was with us for GIS Day several years ago and does at least a few blog posts a year about cool things in AGOL. This…
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From DHR (for GIS Tech I & II, for Supervising GIS Tech, GIS Analyst and GIS Manager II). Exams for the other positions (Sr. GIS Analyst, Principal GIS Analyst, GIS Specialist and GIS Manager I) will follow early next year,…
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I saw this article on Gov Technology. Not sure who here works on EV infrastructure besides planners – maybe Public Works, ISD? Anyway, sharing because you might want to take a look; or get to your colleagues. The Evaluation and Development…
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This is from ArcWatch – of course, come to our L.A. County online GIS Day event on Nov 17th and 18th – click here. But if you want 99 suggested ways to get involved, here’s the link: https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcwatch/99-ways-to-celebrate-gis-day/ There are…
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This is a video from a vendor (I am not endorsing) – but I am providing it because it is good background information about LOD (level of detail) related to building outlines and 3D building models. They also mention how…
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The Mars Rover Perseverance is scheduled to land on Mars tomorrow. I have some links below. But also, I am reminded that we had a scientist from NASA/JPL, Dr. Fred Calef III, at our GIS Day event. He talks about…
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