Red Cross LA GIS Brown Bag

A brown bag lunch presentation on the work done by the GIS Team for the Red Cross LA.

Transcript

1. GIS Evan Lue // American Red Cross Los Angeles Region // May 10, 2013
2. What is GIS? • Geographic Information Systems – Using Location – Managing Data – Visualizing with Graphics – More than a Tool • We Make Data Products – Spatial Intelligence and Analytics
3. What Does GIS Look Like?
4. Our Mission To support planning and operations by making information readily available in a visual and easy-to-understand format.
5. Who We Are Role Member Which One? GIS Project Lead (coordinates projects) Evan Lue GIS Specialists (manages data) Alyssa Hilario Christopher Underwood GIS Volunteers (creates maps) Alexandra Benjamin James Kang Ashley Vidovic
6. Making a Map is Really Easy • Google – My Maps – Fusion Tables – Maps Engine – Crisis Map • BatchGeo • GeoCommons • ArcGIS.com
7. What You Need to Make a Map • Table of data with location information • That’s it! Volunteer Address City State ZIP Leonardo DiCaprio 524 Fir Ave Los Angeles CA 90001 Carey Mulligan 638 Birch Rd Los Angeles CA 90007 Tobey Maguire 898 Poplar St Pasadena CA 90233 Joel Edgerton 412 Elm Dr Long Beach CA 90106
8. So Why Does GIS Seem Hard? • More than points: lines and polygons • Lots of data • Versioning • Editing • Horizontal Integration (like IT) • Sharing • Security • Quality
9. Security and Quality
10. Services We Provide (1 of 3) • https://redcrossmaps.sdsu.edu • Put your data on a map – PDF print map – Web map for dynamic viewing • Analyze your data – Counting (e.g. DAT) & buffers (e.g. X-ings) User: betauser Password: betauser
11. Services We Provide (2 of 3) • Finding / Creating Data – Demographics (e.g. IRPIC) – Non-Traditional Shelters • Data Centralization and Authority – Editors • Printing big things (up to ANSI D, 22x34) – Maps, signs, charts, etc.
12. Services We Provide (3 of 3) • We share data with other agencies and organizations – LA County – SD County – Healthy City
13. Using ArcGIS.com • Shelters as an Example – Find an address – Put on a filter/query (Cap > 100, Showers > 0) – View the table – Configure pop-ups – Multiple layers / change transparency – View the legend – Saving your own map – Fixing errors
14. Our 2 Biggest Challenges 1. Most Data is not Live 2. Data Centralization – Departments within chapters – Chapters – Data owners – Geographic scales (districts, areas, etc.)
15. Where Does Information Live? • Grady’s computer, Liz’s computer, Lauren’s computer (unique to people) • M:/ Drive (unique to LA) • Salesforce, NSS, CAS/Webi, Saba, Volunteer Connection (doesn’t feed/interoperate) • Zoho, Google Drive (doesn’t feed/interoperate)
16. How We Fix The Problems Create a single integrative solution or Several interoperable solutions
17. What’s Next • Give other chapters the gift of GIS • Come up with more use cases • Update early and often • You tell us GIS
18. How to Update • Talk to: – Alyssa Hilario – Christopher Underwood
19. Upcoming Event • Geospatial LA ( group) • Thursday, May 30 at 5:30pm • EOC Tour and Mock Incident Response • Followed by a mixer