Let's Make a Map!

Thanks to

• Metro for hosting
• theworksLA for sponsoring

• GIS Basics
• LA has some data!
• Natural Earth Data!

what is GIS?

(Geographic Information System)

Raster

Vector

Vector

Projections

The True Size of... (in Mercator)

Authagraph

Yea that's cool, but what if I want maps now....like now now and maybe add some data on top of it?

Yay! Ok so I want to add some data, where do I look?

Resources

• For spatial data
  • geohub.lacity.org
  • LA County GIS Data Portal
  • Natural Earth
• For spatial and other open data
  • data.lacity.org
  • data.lacounty.gov

What can we map?

Source: Terramonitor

Shapfile

Geojson / CSV

Geopackage