Rebuilding a City through Community,
Neogeography, and GIS
Andrew Turner
FortiusOne - Mapufacture
andrew@fortiusone.com
http://highearthorbit.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxno/2414755413

Hurricanes Katrina
and 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

Prove Yourself Viable
Where is my House? Green Dot Map

Prove Yourself Viable
By Green We Mean Bulldozer
Where is my House? Green Dot Map

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

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

Newspapers Demolitions

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

to Spreadsheets
http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.html
http://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

Workshop Agenda
Lesson 1
Learn the basic functions of ArcGIS
Setting up ArcMap
Adding data and geography layers
The Belfer Center’s Broadmoor Project Working with layouts
For New Orleans Community Engagement
Lesson 2
Introduction to American Factfinder
Downloading Census and American Community Survey data to map
NEW ORLEANS NEIGHBORHOOD Downloading geography files including tracts, zip codes, blocks and othe
Preparing Census tract data in Excel to import into ArcGIS
LEADERSHIP FORUM SERIES
Lesson 3
Joining data and geography files
invites you to a Creating thematic (color shaded) maps to display data
Working with legends and interval breaks
Lesson 4
GIS Community Mapping How to do common spatial queries
Lesson 5
Training Workshop Where to download free address data and other New Orleans and
neighborhood specific data for Geocoding (address mapping)
Mapping New Orleans Neighborhoods: Lesson 6
Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis Elements of good maps including colors, fonts and map must haves
Critique of several maps
A GIS Training Session Conducted by
New Urban Research, Inc.
This training course is conducted by New Urban Research, Inc., and is underwritten by The B
(An Add-on Session to the Leadership Center’s Broadmoor Project, the Broadmoor Improvement Association, the Broadm
Development Corporation, and Bard College. The underwriters are providing access for
Forum event on Data Collection and Use Orleans neighborhood leaders to this training course conducted by New Urban Research, Inc.
materials taught in the training do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Har
GIS Workshops
for Neighborhood Leaders) University, The Kennedy School of Government, The Belfer Center, or Bard College.
Community Mapping
Friday, November 2nd

Gentilly Maps
http://enlou.com/gentilly

GNODC Community Mapping

Spam as Population
http://www.gnocdc.org/repopulation/index.html

Orleans Parish Mapufacture Tulane School of
Communication District Architecture
•! Code base
•! Public Safety •! Accessible GIS •!Historic Preservation
Histoirc Preservation
•! GIS Data •! Archival Data
Southern Institute City-Works
Public Library
•! Social Justice •! Urban Planning
•! Getting Things Done •! Tangible Outcomes
Next Actions
Collective
Journalism Neighborhood
Coworking
•! Transparency Velocity
•! Next Questions •! Place based
!! State next steps. •! Project oriented
!! Report progress.
Community Architecture

3 year anniversary

3 year anniversary

n e d
tp o
P o s
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 2.0
http://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.