{"id":102782,"date":"2018-11-13T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&p=102782"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:24:39","slug":"los-angeles-opens-geohub-a-blueprint-for-smart-communities","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/los-angeles-opens-geohub-a-blueprint-for-smart-communities","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Opens GeoHub, a Blueprint for Smart Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":651,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"arcwatch_issues":[79142],"class_list":["post-102782","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","arcwatch_issues-march-2016","arcwatch_sections-the-headlines"],"acf":{"short_description":"Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti unveils Los Angeles GeoHub, an online portal that contains the city\u2019s location-based data and several ready-to-us","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":93892,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Los Angeles is famous for being an incubator for new ideas. It's where the film industry got its start, where the fitness craze took shape, and where the modern food truck movement hit the road.\r\n\r\nNow the city of Los Angeles and Esri have partnered on a project that should spur even more innovation in government, business, and other organizations: the\u00a0Los Angeles GeoHub<\/a>.\r\n\r\nUnveiled recently by Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, the GeoHub gives city staff, businesses, app developers, nonprofit organizations, and the public access to the city's location-based data through an online portal. People can download datasets into spreadsheets, KMLs, or shapefiles. They can also visualize the data in the form of online maps using Esri ArcGIS. The GeoHub combines the city's geographic data into a location-as-a-service platform (LaaS), offering authoritative information, insight, and a means for stakeholders to collaborate to address goals, initiatives, and challenges.\r\n\r\nThe GeoHub is the centerpiece of Garcetti's effort to make Los Angeles a world leader in open data and civic innovation. The Southern California city is in the midst of a transition: Startups are launching, the arts are thriving, and Angelenos are bubbling with ideas. Evolving, too, is the City of Los Angeles, which is poised to transform the way people, businesses, and government interact."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":93902,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"By opening the city's data to everyone, Garcetti hopes to make city operations more efficient, stimulate partnerships between the city and the community, and give residents the opportunity to participate more in government.\r\n\r\n\"Los Angeles is known as a place that thinks big. We are known for our curiosity. We are known for our innovation,\" Garcetti said at the GeoHub launch on January 29 at the\u00a0La Kretz Innovation Campus<\/a>, which is the city's clean technology industry hub. \"[GeoHub] will help us reinvent the way we deliver services and broaden our ability to engage residents and businesses to improve the quality of life in their city.\"\r\n