20 years have passed since the last atlas of desertification was published by the EU. Within that short period, the environment has undergone enormous global changes due largely to human activities. Fortunately, because of the massive increase and growth in the availability of global and regional datasets, and the tools necessary to analyze them, significant progress has been made in understanding human-environment interactions. Continue reading
The Los Angeles County Countywide Address Management System (CAMS) is a system that supports the County’s role in maintaining accurate, authoritative, geospatially referenced, situs (physical) address information for the entire County of Los Angeles including all incorporated Cities within.
The Los Angeles County eGIS Group is hosting an meeting for the incorporated city jurisdictions on December 6th. This meeting is intended to open the lines of dialog regarding “Addressing Authority” roles, responsibilities, and build an addressing partnership for LA County Cities and the countywide address process.
For more information about CAMS, visit the LA County Enterprise GIS website. To register for the meeting click below.
Have you tried to open a Microsoft Excel file in ArcMap and get the following error?
Error: Failed to connect to database. An underlying database error occurred. Class not registered.
I used to be able to open Excel files and now it stopped working. What happened? Well … our computers were recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 365 and when that happened it removed an important driver that ArcMap uses to open Excel files.
What to do? Head on over to this ESRI Technical Support article and install the Microsoft Office system driver. Don’t worry if you were using a version of Office other than 2007, the driver will work for you. It fixed my problem!
“Every map of a distant place is a picture of the past and a vision of a possible future.” Check out this interesting article about the history of planetary cartography.
Some of you might remember Wade Kloos when he was working at ESRI as an Account Manager for the LA and Orange County areas many years ago. He is currently the Director of Enterprise Systems at Utah Department of Natural Resources and has recently done a presentation at the 2018 NWGIS User Conference about why ROI studies rarely get done and how you can use a One-Page GIS ROI solution yourself for free!
He states, “By doing this ROI investigation yourself, Continue reading
Los Angeles County GIS has made the Woolsey Fire perimeter data available for download. Visit the page here for more info.
The Office of Strategic Services was formed in June 1942 in response to the entry of the United States into World War II. This was a time of codification of efforts around the collection of intelligence information in order to more effectively understand and respond to the events of the day. This effort brought together a number of experts, many from academia including a large number of cartographers. These cartographers created maps on demand that either stood alone or were part of reports. The maps were eventually distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program to libraries throughout the United States. The best estimate is that 5,753 unique maps were produced of which Stanford Libraries holds over 700.
Check out the new exhibit of maps by clicking below.
GIS Day 2018 is finally here. I am sure most of us GIS types are going to show off our work this week. Here are a few locations celebrating GIS Day this week:
Los Angeles County
City of Irvine
City of Riverside
UC Riverside
Ventura College
CSU Northridge
UCLA
Palomar College
Also check out the GIS Day map for a location near you!
Check out this interactive map by The San Francisco Chronicle which provides information on wildfires burning across California. The map displays the ongoing/contained fire origins, current/previous fire perimeters, current hot spots, and current air quality.
Check out this satellite image of the fires in California and the smoke that has blown out to sea. It was taken at noon today.
You can view full disk images of the Earth and different sensor images and loops at the GOES East Image Viewer.
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