You may enjoy this interesting series of interactive data visualizations showing land use in the continental United States based on different categorizations used by the US Department of Agriculture. I found it interesting when you organize all the categories together that pasture and rangeland would take up most of the Western US and all of the country’s cities and towns would fit in the Northeast. Check it out!
If your organization is part of the Los Angeles Region Imagery Acquisition Consortium (LAR-IAC), just a reminder there is a LARIAC5 update meeting tomorrow, September 11, 2018 at 9:30am to 12pm. If you plan on attending, make sure to view the meeting webpage and register here: http://go.eagleview.com/lariac-user-group.html .
Also for your reference, here are some important LAR-IAC webpages you should bookmark:
Main LARIAC Page
LARIAC Products and Samples
LARIAC5 Documents and Downloads
Come join LA County on GIS Day, November 14th, from 9am to 3pm at Los Angeles County Grand Park, Olive Court. Learn how LA County departments, and more than 30 other agencies, academic institutions, and private sector companies use GIS to tackle issues affecting the citizens of LA County.
There will be over 50 booths, GIS-enabled emergency vehicles, a map gallery, speakers, GIS games and prizes, and a dunk tank with LA County Supervisors inside … well maybe not the dunk tank! 😉
Attendance is free. For more info, click here.
Orange County has a new Open Data Portal. You can explore by categories, like boundaries, cadaster, environment, health, infrastructure, etc., or just type a search, like “parcels” or “street centerlines”. There are also links to feature apps and paper maps too. Check it out!
For those of you that use ESRI’s ArcGIS Online product, they just announced that they plan on updating it on September 18. Here are four capabilities you can check out once the update happens: Continue reading
Check out this interactive map that visualizes the debt of 51 different countries around the world. The map provides a choropleth view of how much debt is held by each country since 2000 and how that debt has progressed since the global financial crisis of 2008. You can also visualize household debt, which includes things like mortgages, student loans, and consumer credit.
Did you miss a few technical workshops at the 2018 ESRI User Conference? Good news, there are many to watch now on ESRI’s youtube site. Check it out!
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS is a configurable web app that is included with your ArcGIS Online subscription and/or ArcGIS Enterprise software. The app provides location-aware data visualization and analytics for a real-time operational view of assets, people, services, and events. Click below to find out about the top six new features.
Also check out this blog post about strategies and best practices for using dashboards on your smartphone.
If you have been keeping track of all the active wildfires in the US lately, you have probably been using the Wildfire Story Map. Check out this article about the data and technology behind ESRI’s Wildfire Story Map.
Like many of you, you might be using the Google API in your Geocortex apps so you have access to the Google Street View tool. Well, for us it stopped working recently:
We found out that Google changed their API terms of use this summer. They have stopped supporting keyless usage. That means you cannot access Google Street View through your apps without a billing account and an API key. Keyless calls to the Maps JavaScript API and Street View API will return low-resolution images watermarked with “for development purposes only.” You do not have to worry about this if you use the Google Maps website and Street View there. This is only through API interfaces.
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