PPD 631 – GIS for Policy, Planning, and Development

Location

University of Southern California, Los Angeles Campus

Fridays

January 19 (RGL 304) and March 29: 8:30-5:00 (VPD 112)

February 9 (VPD 112) and March 1: 9:00-12:30 (VPD 105)

Course Materials

Course Syllabus	Tips and Tricks
Tech Support	Assignments
Project Guidelines	Suggestions
ArcGIS.com	ESRI News For State and Local Governments Newsletter

Lectures and Presentations

Slideshows & Weekly Videos

(Note: tutorials are listed in book order and may not be presented in this order)

Slideshows		Videos
GIS Tutorial 1 – Basic Workbook  (and Ch. 1)	Map Design  (Ch. 2)	See below
GIS Projection  (Bonus)	Data
Map Types	Working with Data Tables
Address Mapping	GPS Point Mapping
Editing	Attribute & Location Queries
Using Geoprocessing Tools	Creating Geodatabases & Aerial Photography
Joining Boundaries	Creating Reports
Sharing Work & Publishing Maps	Project Examples

Other Presentations

Pavement Management	Extra stuff
Public Safety	Jenny Gough’s presentation on public works & aerial photography
Jonathon’s cartography presentation	Election presentation
Nick’s LA County Regional Planning presentation	–

Data and Resource Links

Data Sources

Simply Analytics (create a new account using your USC email) and instructions	Instructions for getting data from ArcGIS Online	Notes for Batch Geocoding Service
Getting Census Data Instructions	LA County GIS Data Portal	Mapping LA (from the LA Times – includes neighborhoods)
LA City Street Data	LA County street data (Caution – 37 MB!)	California Zip Codes
LA City Zip Codes	Cities of LA County	Air Resources Board data
Earthworks (Stanford data portal to many datasets)	http://www.gisportal.com/	http://www.pasda.psu.edu/ (Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access)
Cal-Atlas	Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)	NationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons
USGS National Mapping Information	GIS – Stack Exchange	GIS Data Depot (State of California data portal)
2000 Census TIGER Line data through ESRI: (Does not come with a projection file)	USGS aerial imagery, DEMs, etc. (the National Map)	LA County Assessor
SCAG Data and GIS Resource Link	Historic Aerials	UCSB Aerial Photography Library

Resources

Understanding Esri credits	How to download Census shapefiles	Esri’s Maps We Love
GIS resources list	Harvard GIS resources (including cartography, data and analysis	Prioritizing background
Setting GIS priorities	Enhance shapefile creator tool	Link to other USGS maps & aerial photos (not data)
Getting street data from StreetMap USA (Word document)	CommunityViz software	–

Other GIS Links

ESRI Tapestry data	David Rumsey Historical Map Collection	ESRI Virtual Campus- Home Page
FGDC data security guidelines	GISjobs.com–Your One Stop GIS Shop!	Historic World Maps – about.com
Historical Map Web Sites	Library of Congress Map Collections Home Page	Map Projections Poster and Esri’s map projections story map
NASA’s Visible Earth	“Lost” map	The Mercator fallacy
The political map we keep seeing	–	–