California has launched its GeoPortal: http://portal.gis.ca.gov
Congratulations to Scott Gregory (GIO of California) and his team – it’s a great start!
My quick takes:
- The sound clips talk a lot about mobile apps – looking forward to what that means
- I really like the application carousel – it’s a pretty cool interface – but it doesn’t work in Google Chrome.
- My favorite map could be the Parcel Viewer – but it isn’t working – not good.
- The Viewer leaves a lot to be desired – throwing data on a map without any tools that provide context doesn’t help too much. I think that Philadelphia’s map viewer is a bit closer to what we need – where you can switch between maps. But on that map, too there aren’t tools that let you interact with the information in a way that is specific to each map.
- If this portal is for California, why is there Oregon data there?
- Under the gallery, the organization by theme is really cool, but some of the links are just PDFs – don’t know if that is really what we need. BUT as this part fills out I look forward to it – I just hope that the search capabilities are robust enough to clear out clutter.
- I am having some issues searching.
Here’s a Video showing how to use it:
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