The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) deployed the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operation’s King Air aircraft to complete the collection of geo-referenced oblique imagery of the West Coast. More than 3,000 images were collected from the U.S.-Mexico border to Cape Flattery, WA. The imagery will be used to assess impacts of the ongoing El Niño event in several NOS mission areas, including navigation and coastal zone management. Continue reading
Our friends over at LA County have announced that the Park Needs Assessment has been published. You can download the executive summary or the full report. Continue reading
For what its worth, at least take the survey to tell them what you think of GIS certification.
For more info, see the LA County Enterprise GIS posting about it here.
Check out this article about how Google Maps has changed from emphasizing cities at the expense of roads to emphasizing the road network at the expense of cities. Also the article shows how a 1960’s era paper map does a better job balancing roads and city names.
I thought I would start a fun blog series called California Friday which focuses on underrated or unusual places to visit in California. Sure, it’s not GIS related, but might make for interesting weekend trips or places to stop at while staring at your GPS as it recalculates your route! We will see how this goes for a few months. Let me know how you like it, or if you visited the place add a comment to tell us some insider stuff to do.
Our first stop is little Amador County, just southeast of Sacramento. Here you can step back in time and visit wine country as it was with tiny, family owned wineries tasting vinos you would not find elsewhere. Continue reading
At the close of the Second World War, the United States government embarked on an enormous artistic enterprise. It is estimated to have cost nearly $3 billion and, at its height, employed more than 2,000 people. I am talking about the topographic mapping program of the United States Geological Survey.
Read more on the New York Times Magazine website by clicking below.
The U.S. Geological Survey is hosting the eighth in a series of webinars on hydrography on Thursday May 19, 2016 at 2:00 PM ET. The topic of this webinar will be lidar technology and implications for hydrology and hydrography. High-quality hydrographic data are critical to a broad range of government and private applications.
If you live in LA, then you might be interested in this interactive map. As part of the LA’s Clean Streets initiative, the City’s Bureau of Sanitation drove all of LA’s public streets and alleys, travelling over 22,000 miles, and gave each block a “cleanliness score” from 1-3, 1 being Clean, 2 Somewhat clean, and 3 Not clean. Continue reading
LA County GIS has published its GIS data catalog in a nice table format to make it easier to find the data you are looking for. Check out the post about it here.
The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) has a new tool and is provided as a free service to the communities that utilize aerial photography. The tool is called the ASPRS Aerial Data Catalog and is a means to locate aerial photography from private companies, universities, states, NGOs, and federal sources. The catalog contains metadata allowing users to determine if coverage exists over an area of interest. The acquisition date, film type, sensor type, and scale are also provided along with the supplier contact information. Continue reading
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