All Southern California GIS Users are welcome to attend a lunch time meet and greet at the ESRI Conference next week. Please join us! More details here.
SoCal GIS Users Meet & Greet at ESRI Conference
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Yearly Archives: 2015
The Best-Selling Vehicles in Each State
Check out this map showing the best-selling vehicles in each state for 2014. Besides the brand, states are color coded for the popular models. Click below to read the short article.
City of LA People Street Projects Map
The City of Los Angeles has a mapping tool that allows users to view People Street projects, like plazas and parklets, that have been completed or coming soon. They are turning 7,500 miles of city streets into active, vibrant, and accessible public spaces. Check it out.
Map of California GIS Contacts
CGIA has released a map showing GIS contacts across the State. If you work with GIS in California, especially government, make sure your contact information is up to date.
What is your Soundscore? Mapping Noise
Here is a new startup, Howloud, taking on the challenge of calculating and mapping residential noise levels. If you live in LA or Orange Counties, enter your address to see your Soundscore.
Also, here is a KCAL 9 news piece about Howloud, and a LA Curbed article.
I noticed that the areas of Santa Clarita, Lancaster and Palmdale have not been calculated yet. Donate to their Kickstarter to get them done! Their plans are to build a sound map for North America, including mapping noise around buildings in 3D.
Mobile Plotter in a Box
Burbank Fire has had a mobile plotter for quite some time. It was an HP Designjet 1055CM placed in a custom box to make it mobile. It was time for a new plotter and this time it is an HP Designjet Z6200 which is quite a bit bigger.
To make it fit in a reasonable size box, one of the guys in our IT Department made custom short legs for it. He is great with a welding torch! You can see the original legs to the right of the plotter in the photo below.
Foot braces (black) were created to bolt onto the plotter’s original hardware (silver).
The custom box has a lid that comes off to expose the plotter for use.
Pretty cool red box! -mike
LA County Map from the Past!
I have been going through all the ESRI Map Books that I have collected over the years from the ESRI user conferences. In the 1991 map book, actually titled “Arc/Info Maps 1991”, I came across a map made by Los Angeles County titled “Cities and Major Features in Los Angeles County”. Maybe used Arc/Info 5 or 6? Looks like they used an electrostatic plotter that printed the map in 4 passes for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Awesome!
Fireworks 2015: Cities Added!
July 4th is just around the corner and that means Fireworks! Once again I bring you the fireworks app. You can view cities in LA, Orange, and Ventura County that allow the sale and use of fireworks. Included are days and times when fireworks will be sold and when you can light them up, as well as links to city web sites and telephone numbers. Data was collected from municipal codes, web sites, and/or contacting each city.
This year the City of Anaheim and the City of Huntington Beach have been added to the map. Through measures last year, voters decided to allow fireworks to be sold and used within their borders. Congratulations to them and enjoy the app!
Free QGIS Course
Discover Spatial is offering a free video tutorial on QGIS. The video tutorial provides an overview of the QGIS platform and dives into the features and functions so you can create maps and output using the open source software. Check it out!
EJSCREEN by EPA
The EPA has developed a new environmental justice mapping and screening tool called EJSCREEN. It is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports. Check it out.
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