The Los Angeles County Assessor has just released their 2016 tax roll parcels. The 2016 parcels (in a file geodatabase) with associated tax roll information can be downloaded at the Los Angeles County GIS Data Portal.
A newly discovered print of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map was to be sold at auction this month until experts raised concerns about its authenticity. The Waldseemüller map is considered to be the first to mention America. Click below for the story and how it was discovered to be a fake.
See how a data enthusiast takes commuter data from the US Census American Community Survey and plots where people live and work to visualize commuting trends. Click below to read about how it was done.
Click below to try out the app and select a state and county to visualize the data.
ESRI has released AppStudio 2.1 for ArcGIS. The release includes new features like material design layouts, community panel, updated templates, app framework plugins, biometric authentication, and interapp communication. Read on for more info!
Huell Howser was an American television personality best known for hosting, producing, and writing California’s Gold, a human interest show that aired on California PBS stations. He would explore natural wonders, historic landmarks, and quirky destinations in California.
Before he passed away in 2013, he donated his videotaped collection of California’s Gold episodes and others to Chapman University. The school established the Huell Howser Archives which offers the public free access to the entire digitized collection of his life’s work!
And yes, there is a story map! Just click on a location to get episode info and a link to the video to watch. As Huell would say … That’s Amazing!
UPDATE 5/3/2024: After many years, the wonderful app below is no longer working. Apparently it was created by a GIS consulting company that was not related to Chapman University and now they have gone out of business.
If you missed your favorite workshop at the 2017 ESRI UC in July, there are 51 of them that you can watch online. From ArcGIS Enterprise to ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online, there is something there that might interest you. Check them out!
During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal”. From 1933 to 1943 a constellation of federally sponsored programs put millions of jobless Americans back to work and helped revive the economy. The result was a rich landscape of public works projects across the nation. No city , town, or rural area was untouched. Hundreds of thousands of roads, schools, theaters, libraries, hospitals, post offices, courthouses, airports, parks, forests, gardens, and artworks – created in only one decade by our parents and grandparents – are still in use today!
At the end of September 2017, the USGS discontinued service to the previous versions of the National Map viewer application. This was done to move toward frameworks that support HTML5 web environments, improve mobile access, add GIS capabilities, and minimize having to maintain custom viewer code.
The National Map Advanced Viewer application is now an ArcGIS Online viewer for public use. It was built using ArcGIS Online Web AppBuilder. Click below and give it a spin!
The help doc for the new viewer can be found here.
Note that the USGS already has a separate application focused on data download and that download functionality is not part of the new viewer application at this time.
If you are a librarian or someone that deals with a geospatial data repository, this might be for you.
Geo4LibCamp is a hands-on “unconference” meeting to share best-practices, solve common problems, and address technical issues with integrating geospatial data into a repository and associated services. The main event will be held at Stanford University on January 29-31, 2018 (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday), with optional working sessions on February 1-2 (Thursday and Friday).
Check out this article by National Geographic about mapping the urban bike utopias of the 1890s. At that time, the bicycle gave middle-class people more freedom to travel when and where they wanted. Cities today are striving to become the most “bikeable”.
