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By markgreninger, on May 14th, 2012 Please find the agenda for tomorrow’s LA County eGIS Committee Meeting attached here: May – 2012_0515.eGIS meeting notice and Agenda (pdf file)
Important note
The GIS classifications will be in front of the Board of Supervisors tomorrow. It was held from two weeks ago due to unrelated issues, so let’s hope it passes tomorrow. Unfortunately that does not give me or the CEO enough time to prepare to discuss the classifications tomorrow, so we will need to postpone until next month’s meeting.
Discussion items for tomorrow
By markgreninger, on May 14th, 2012 For those of you who want to do GIS and fieldwork – this is a great opportunity.
Thanks to Tom Weisenberger for passing along!
Organization: Catalina Island Conservancy
Title: GIS/IT Technician
Location: Avalon, CA USA
Application Deadline:
Posted: 2012-05-14
http://www.gjc.org/gjc-cgi/showjob.pl?id=1337014157
By markgreninger, on May 14th, 2012  Walk Score If you haven’t been to Walkscore.com you should check it out: They have done a pretty interesting spatial analysis based upon distance from an address to local resources (restaurants, shopping, etc). Check it out here: http://www.walkscore.com/apartments/search/90071.
What is interesting to me about this is that if you flip the analysis, and add our service locations from our location management system (aka Points of interest – click to download) – you can do a service GAP analysis – basically the red areas would be places that don’t have enough services.
As a government agency this would be a powerful rendering of where we as a County need to add providers or sign contracts.
I’d be interested in this – when I get the change I’ll start taking a look at this – but if someone does it first I would love to see the results!
By markgreninger, on May 9th, 2012  North Dakota Betsy Barker from Beaches and Harbors pointed me to another online GIS certificate:
http://distance.und.edu/degree/?id=geoinfoscience2
By markgreninger, on May 8th, 2012  LA City Planning GIS Data PAge The City of Los Angeles Planning department has launched a GIS Data Portal for downloading various GIS data files pertaining to City Planning information.
You can access the data by going to http://planning.lacity.org, selecting the Maps and Stats button on the left, then selecting the LADCP GIS Data. page.
I will also add this link to our LA County GIS Data Portal, (http://gis.lacounty.gov/dataportal), which contains links to County and other data like this.
While I like the portal itself, there are some things I think that LA City should look into:
- It’s not integrated into any of the other GIS data from LA City, meaning that it’s focus on Planning only means that I still need to go to many other sites to get other GIS data from LA City.
- The layer names are images, which means that if Google or Microsoft crawl their site, it will be a lot harder to get this data on the search results.
- I did notice that the page doesn’t have its own URL which also will cause issues for search engines to make it easier to find.
By markgreninger, on May 7th, 2012  Fresno's certificate program A new on-line only GIS certification from Cal State Fresno.
Thanks to Betsy Barker for passing this long: http://www.fresnostate.edu/cge/giscert/index.shtml
By markgreninger, on May 3rd, 2012  Promote this idea! I’m asking for a favor to everyone who get this (even if you aren’t a GIS programmer). This will help you all in the long run. I want this idea to go to the top of the ideas page!!!
Idea Title : User Assignable Layer Ids for REST Map Services
The link is : http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000brPP
You’ll need to create a username and login if you don’t have one already.
Why is this important?
Right now every map service that we create references the layers in the map in numeric order (starting from zero). So in the picture below, to turn on the trails you need to reference layer 18. But what happens if we add a new layer, that for cartographic purposes, needs to go higher? Every layer underneath it then gets shifted down one, and the application that was showing trails now shows Tourist Assistance instead!
This means that as we deploy more and more data, we could be breaking everyone’s applications left and right as we attempt to provide more and better data. Note that the map service I note has 187 layers of information
In the older technology the layer reference could be set by hand – I think it should be referenced by the name of the layer (Trails, for example) but definitely NOT by an ID.
By Nick Franchino, on May 2nd, 2012 POSITION CLOSED (OVER 30 APLICATIONS RECEIVED) – AS OF 5/14/12
RECRUITMENT
GIS/MAPPING TECHNICIAN
The Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles (LAFCO) is actively seeking candidates for the position of GIS/Mapping Technician. This position reports to the LAFCO Executive Officer and interacts with other LAFCO staff in a supporting role.
The GIS/Mapping Technician acts with a high level of independence in performing technical mapping functions, including preparation of maps and legal descriptions, requiring a sound knowledge of the principles and practices of GIS and GPS mapping techniques. The position requires effective verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to act independently.
Continue reading LA LAFCO Looking for GIS/Mapping Technician
By markgreninger, on May 1st, 2012  Thanks to Chris Sellers for passing this along!
I got this the other day. Really cool map book…
http://www.amazon.com/Los-Angeles-Maps-Glen-Creason/dp/0847833917
By Nick Franchino, on April 26th, 2012 Map your future with a career in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
View it in your browser – click here.
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