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Topeka unveils public GIS dashboards with district-level demographic and economic data
Summary
City GIS manager demonstrated a new public dashboard that provides councilmembers and residents district-level demographic, housing and business data drawn from federal and commercial sources. Councilmembers asked about local-data integration, update frequency and custom geographies.
City mapping and GIS manager Travis Lather demonstrated a public-facing suite of interactive dashboards at the Topeka City Council meeting on Oct. 7 that display demographic, economic and asset data down to council-district and neighborhood (NIA) levels.
The dashboards compile U.S. Census Bureau and American Community Survey estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics and consumer-expenditure data, and commercial business-location data from Esri, Infogroup and SafeGraph. Lather said the city pays an annual vendor fee for access to the data and that the dashboards currently pull from those cloud-hosted data sources.
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