This is a fun read: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/606-a-cucumber-map-of-europe
Long live the Greater Cucumber Co-Prosperity Sphere!
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This month’s eGIS Committee is one week earlier than normal due to scheduling conflicts at DPW. Agenda is attached here: May 2013_0514.eGIS meeting notice and Agenda
Updates
The eGIS Group will provide information about the virtualization of the eGIS Repository as well as the future migration to ArcGIS 10.1, and Douglas Morales will showcase some work he did with Data Driven Pages and Python Scripting.
This is a helpful resource for folks looking to improve their maps. They have online resources for:
Earlier today, President Obama signed an Executive Order making open and machine readable data the new default for Government information. The White House simultaneously released the accompanying Open Data Policy.
The reason this post hit me was not so much for the fact that it uses LA County data, which is great, or the fact that our Sheriff department shares this data (which is even better – kudos to Wendy Harn!!!) – but that it shows the value of making our data open, updated, and easy to find! This increases access to developers, who can make the data more visible to citizens, improving their understanding about what goes on around them, and potentially improving their lives. What sparked this “epiphany” was this little banner on the top:
As of April 30th (8 days after the post):
Well – 372 folks doesn’t seem like much, until you realize that means that this has been shared with ALL of their friends and followers – so we may be talking about thousands of other people. Each one of them can backtrack to both the ESRI post, as well as the LA County GIS Data Portal. So they may end up using the instructions to create their own maps and applications, learning both about GIS, crime, and analysis, but maybe finding other data that they have interest in, and can work with. Maybe one of them will build an application like crimemapping.com that does some neat analysis (supported by the Sheriff and other police departments), combined with other data that we have, to do some neat work.
Nancy is a student at USC, and this application has made it into the top 5 of the Robert Raskin Mapping Mashup Competition Members of the LA Regional GIS Forum are getting together to begin building something like this across the jurisdictions in the County. I am looking forward to the results!
Take a look: http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/ Thanks to Joel Myhre at Nordic Geospatial for passing along.
Their map of Los Angeles was powerful – but there are 20 other cities to see. What’s interesting is that for Los Angeles there are a lot more colors (more ethnicities) than for other cities. If you have an application that you think has made valuable addition to your organization, the award below is a great way to show it off!
The 2013 Best of California Awards nominations are available online! Visit www.centerdigitalgov.com/2013BestofCA The Best of California Awards program was established to recognize IT professionals in California state and local government and education organizations for their dedication, hard work and contributions. All government and education organizations in California are invited to submit nominations. An Evaluation Committee will review submissions in the following categories and select recipients. All projects nominated must be in production and fully operational by submission. Distinguish the work of your team or that of a colleague by submitting a nomination! SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE THURSDAY MAY 23, 2013. Please join us for the highest level of professional acknowledgement within the California public sector IT community. Awards will be given in the following categories:
Leadership Awards:
Project Excellence Awards:
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