Information sharing for LA County GIS users
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Hi All, Our department’s annual Arts Datathon brings together arts administrators, artists, educators, data scientists, students, GIS professionals, community advocates, researchers, civic technologists, and others to explore how we can use data to improve access to the arts for everyone….
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For those that like to stay aware of the policy side of our business, a discussion draft (linked below) was posted on 1/11/23. This draft is open for comments until 1/31/2023. Honestly, nothing in here looks problematic, lots on data…
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Happy New Year! The ArcGIS Online Management Dashboard has been updated with data as of today at noon. Some updates: Added new departments to dropdown Removed “open data” references to minimize confusion with the CIO open data project Feel free…
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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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To any who use the Healthy Places Index in their analyses, please note that there is a new version 3.0 that was released earlier this year. Margaret has kindly created a version with LA County tracts only: https://lacounty.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e7a84e8db4c0462b8442ec924b0a1011 Please consider…
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Have you been using Justice40 tracts or the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool? If so, please note that Version 1.0 of the tool has been released, and with it a slew of updates to the underlying methodology. The original…
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Interested in learning Arcade? Esri’s Arcade Documentation was recently updated (on 11/10/2022) to be more beginner-friendly, with explanations and examples on each page of the Language features section. You can also learn more about the products that support Arcade and…
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The ArcGIS Online Management Dashboard has been updated with data through October 14, 2022. Feel free to reach out with any comments or questions. Link (works for most users): https://app.powerbigov.us/Redirect?action=OpenApp&appId=e005d624-bb84-4e8c-a62f-15b4d19b6b76&ctid=07597248-ea38-451b-8abe-a638eddbac81
The Esri User Conference presents an opportunity to share & showcase the various County programs and projects to the global user community. You have some time to think of a topic/project, but please consider showcasing the LA County GIS Community…
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