Rebuilding a City through Community, Neogeography, and GIS

Andrew TurnerFortiusOne - Mapufacture

andrew@fortiusone.comhttp://highearthorbit.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxno/2414755413

Hurricanes Katrinaand Rita

Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

Crisis Reporting

Hurricane Katrina

Return to Normal

Return to Normal

Return to Normal

Gut

topophilia love of place

New Orleans

Green Dot Map

Where is my House? Green Dot Map

Where is my House? Green Dot Map

Prove Yourself Viable

Where is my House? Green Dot Map

By Green We Mean Bulldozer

Prove Yourself Viable

wrp.geothings.net Green Dot Map

Open Data Green Dot Map

Broadmoor Green Dot Map

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanuptowngirl/2081416562/

Community Broadmoor

Blogs Broadmoor

Forums Broadmoor

Mid-City Green Dot Map

Community Mid-City

Wiki Mid-City

Flip that Neighborhood Mid-City

http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/339185196/

Demolitions

Newspapers Demolitions

from Newspaper Listings

http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=118

to Spreadsheets

http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.htmlhttp://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six

to Maps

http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/13/google-maps/

to Blog Posts

http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/

to Flickr Photos

Brought Together Demolitions

Community Meetings Demolitions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894170436/

Community Meetings Demolitions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2893330201

Community Meetings Demolitions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894172926

Save our Schools

School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish

Regional-Modernism

School Facilities Master Plan

Geolocated Plans Save our Schools

Historic Photographs Save our Schools

Taylor’s 1924 Map

Taylor’s Map - Rectified

Scientifically Minded

Go Huey!

maps.thinknola.com Save our Schools

The Belfer Center’s Broadmoor ProjectFor New Orleans Community Engagement

NEW ORLEANS NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP FORUM SERIES

invites you to a

GIS Community MappingTraining Workshop

Mapping New Orleans Neighborhoods: Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis

A GIS Training Session Conducted by New Urban Research, Inc.

(An Add-on Session to the Leadership Forum event on Data Collection and Use

for Neighborhood Leaders)

Friday, November 2nd

(all day: 8:30 am till 4:30 pm)

Followed the next day, by the Data Gathering & Use Forum Event

on Saturday, November 3rd

8:30 am till 5:00 pm

Training arranged by: the Belfer Center’s Broadmoor Project

in conjunction with Bard College, the Broadmoor Improvement Association,

and the Broadmoor Development Corporation

Workshop Agenda

Lesson 1

Learn the basic functions of ArcGIS

Setting up ArcMap

Adding data and geography layers

Working with layouts

Lesson 2

Introduction to American Factfinder

Downloading Census and American Community Survey data to map

Downloading geography files including tracts, zip codes, blocks and others

Preparing Census tract data in Excel to import into ArcGIS

Lesson 3

Joining data and geography files

Creating thematic (color shaded) maps to display dataWorking with legends and interval breaks

Lesson 4

How to do common spatial queries

Lesson 5

Where to download free address data and other New Orleans and neighborhood specific data for Geocoding (address mapping)

Lesson 6

Elements of good maps including colors, fonts and map must havesCritique of several maps

This training course is conducted by New Urban Research, Inc., and is underwritten by The Belfer

Center’s Broadmoor Project, the Broadmoor Improvement Association, the Broadmoor

Development Corporation, and Bard College. The underwriters are providing access for New

Orleans neighborhood leaders to this training course conducted by New Urban Research, Inc. The

materials taught in the training do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Harvard

University, The Kennedy School of Government, The Belfer Center, or Bard College.GIS Workshops Community Mapping

Gentilly Mapshttp://enlou.com/gentilly

GNODC Community Mapping

Spam as Populationhttp://www.gnocdc.org/repopulation/index.html

•! Urban Planning

•! Tangible Outcomes

City-Works

•! Histoirc Preservation

•! Archival Data

Tulane School of

Architecture •! Code base

•! Accessible GIS

Mapufacture

•! Public Safety

•! GIS Data

Orleans Parish

Communication District

•! Transparency

•! Next Questions

Collective

Journalism

!! State next steps. !! Report progress.

Velocity

•! Social Justice

•! Getting Things Done

Southern Institute

Next Actions

Public Library

•! Place based

•! Project oriented

Neighborhood

Coworking

Community Architecture

Historic Preservation

3 year anniversary

3 year anniversary

Postpon

ed

3 year anniversary

Storm Tracking Hurricane Gustav

Hurricane Gustav

http://maker.geocommons.com

Iterate

Public Data

http://finder.geocommons.com

HurricaneWiki

CrescentMaps.org

Hurricane Ike

Demolitions 2.0 not really funny

http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/map-all-demolition-permits-issued-post-gustav/

Demolitions 2.0http://flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/sets/72157607209781789/

Thank you andrew@fortiusone.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48352971@N00/1588614122

Appreciation

• Thanks to:

• Alan Gutierrez (http://blogometer.com)

• Francine Stock (http://regional-modernism.com)

• Karen Gadbois (http://squanderedheritage.com)

• For their continual work in creating and connecting a community and allowing me to help. They also generated much of the materials used in this presentation.