PPD 631 – GIS for Policy, Planning, and Development

Location

University of Southern California, Los Angeles Campus – VPD 112

Fridays

January 16 and March 27: 8:30-5:00

February 6 and March 6: 9:00-12:30

Course Materials

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

Lectures and Presentations

Slideshows & Weekly Videos

Course YouTube channel

(Note: These are for the old version of the book and are a supplement to the YouTube channel)

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

Southern California Sustainability Hub	California State Geo Portal	Living Atlas
California Air Resources Board data	LA County GIS Data Hub	Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
Earthworks (Stanford data portal to many datasets)	Core Logic GIS Portal	Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access
USGS National Mapping Information	LA County Assessor	NationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons
USGS aerial imagery, DEMs, etc. (the National Map)	SCAG Data and GIS Resource Link	UCSB Aerial Photography Library
	Historic Aerials

• Links from Nick’s LA County Presentation
• DRP Exhibit Hall Page (from GIS Day)
  Community Boundaries (Story Map)
  Cartographic Explorer (for LA County Planning)
  Why is GIS important to planners (from my colleagues at LA City)
   (4 min video – from 2018; still relevant)
  Interactive GIS Web Mapping Applications (from our website)
  GIS-NET Public
  Tree Hub
  Mapping Resources for Recovery & Rebuilding
  LARIAC (LA County Imagery Acquisition Consortium)
  Academic Internships
  GIS Day slide
   
  LA28 stuff
  Story Map
  Sports Schedule Dashboards
  
  Build Your Map

Resources

Understanding Esri credits	Setting GIS priorities	Esri’s Maps We Love
CommunityViz software	Esri free online lessons	Link to other USGS maps & aerial photos (not data)
	Geospatial Concepts (Johns Hopkins)

Other GIS Links

ESRI Tapestry data	David Rumsey Historical Map Collection	GIS Resources Knowledge Archive
FGDC data security guidelines	GISjobs.com–Your One Stop GIS Shop!	The political map we keep seeing (video)
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
	GIS Day

Past Projects