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This dataset comes from the County’s Location Management System (LMS), which is a collaborative system to locations across the County. The full dataset contains over 73,000 locations, including 63,000 public (available for download below) and14,000 non-public locations (available for government entities only) with consistent attributes. Location types are broken into more than 270 unique types using three categories (cat1, cat2, cat3) that provide detailed breakdowns of the location types.Information contained in the LMS DataI have noticed that many folks don’t realize the value of this dataset because they are looking for a specific item (like “Libraries”) and don’t find it on this site – but it is part of this dataset. So I have added a full text listing so that you can know to look here. You need to extract the relevant data through queries.This dataset is the single, central repository for locations of interest to government, including basic information about those locations. So we will keep heliports in our dataset, but not dry cleaners.To download an Excel table showing the full set of Categories, download: Location Categories (includes use constraints and data owners).xlsxData SourcesData was compiled from the following data sources:211 LA County: http://211lacounty.org/HSIP Freedom from the HIFLD working group: http://www.hifldwg.org/ – some of this data is for official use only and cannot be downloaded here. Authorized users should contact me to access this data.County Services Locator: http://maps.lacounty.gov/location/searchOther GIS files.The County has launched a program to maintain this data collaboratively. Each location in the dataset has a defined page for it – stored in the link field. If information is incorrect, out of date, or the location is wrong, you can click on the link in ArcMap (an identified point will have a hyperlink icon next to it) and you will be taken to the page in the LMS for that location. A registered user can provide comments for that location, which will be sent automatically to the location owner.If you feel that you are the authoritative owner for one or more of the categories or points, please contact me (email below). Please read the LMS Introduction and Documentation |
