The City of New Orleans is undergoing fast, and often unchecked reformations. Following Hurricane Katrina, the citizens were forced to evaluate and rebuild. However, pulling together disparate sources of information, freeing government data, and understanding the situation was difficult. Individual organizations began to use readily available tools to capture and collect data. Flickr photos of historic buildings, online spreadsheets of demolition permits, collaborative mapping of citizens to discuss rebuilding neighborhoods and problem areas. Through a mixture of awareness, coworking sessions, and the applications of higher-level tools, the various groups were able to pull the geospatial information together for advanced analysis and community planning. This presentation will discuss the various emergent and coordinated processes that are used in the city to engage citizens and government. Through utilization of existing consumer services as well as lightweight geospatial tools and more complex GIS analysis the city is gaining understanding and the ability to move forward together.

1. 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

2. Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita

3. Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

4. Crisis Reporting
Hurricane Katrina

5. Return to Normal

6. Return to Normal

7. Return to Normal

8. Gut

9. topophilia love of place

10. New Orleans

11. Green Dot Map

12. Where is my House? Green Dot Map

13. Prove Yourself Viable
Where is my House? Green Dot Map

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

15. wrp.geothings.net Green Dot Map

17. Open Data Green Dot Map

18. Broadmoor Green Dot Map

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

21. Community Broadmoor

22. Blogs Broadmoor

23. Forums Broadmoor

24. Mid-City Green Dot Map

25. Community Mid-City

26. Wiki Mid-City

27. Flip that Neighborhood Mid-City

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

29. Newspapers Demolitions

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

31. to Spreadsheets
http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.html
http://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six

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

33. to Blog Posts
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/

34. to Flickr Photos

35. Brought Together Demolitions

36. Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894170436/

37. Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2893330201

38. Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894172926

39. Save our Schools

40. School Facilities Master
Plan for Orleans Parish

41. Regional-Modernism

42. School Facilities
Master Plan

43. Geolocated Plans Save our Schools

44. Historic Photographs Save our Schools

45. Taylor’s 1924 Map

46. Taylor’s Map - Rectified

47. Scientifically Minded

48. Go Huey!

49. maps.thinknola.com Save our Schools

50. 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

51. Gentilly Maps
http://enlou.com/gentilly

52. GNODC Community Mapping

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

54. 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

55. 3 year anniversary

56. 3 year anniversary

57. n e d
tp o
P o s
3 year anniversary

58. Storm Tracking Hurricane Gustav

59. Hurricane Gustav
http://maker.geocommons.com

60. Iterate

61. Public Data
http://finder.geocommons.com

62. HurricaneWiki

63. CrescentMaps.org

64. Hurricane Ike

65. Demolitions 2.0 not really funny
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/map-all-demolition-permits-issued-post-gustav/

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

67. Thank you andrew@fortiusone.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48352971@N00/1588614122

68. 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.