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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Inspired by previous building-ages maps that began popping up last year, urban designer Omar Ureta has created an interactive map of building ages in LA County. Ureta used the building outline data from LA County’s GIS data portal. You can click on the timeline to explore how the city has grown over time. You can also hover over a building to reveal the address and time it was built.
Yahoo has disclosed that it plans to shutdown its Yahoo Maps service at the end of June. The maps shutdown is part of their “spring cleanup of products”. Click below for more on the story.
The Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world.
NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information. Check it out.
It was just a matter of time. ArcMap and CityEngine were used to build a Star Wars Galaxy interactive map. Check it out.
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