California Community College GIS Collaborative

What a great example of a systemwide collaborative effort in support of planning and information sharing! This gets great information out in the hands of whoever needs it, in the spirit of providing information for analysis and planning: "Starting with working with district leaders to find written legal descriptions to knitting together the final 72 maps from a composite set of 1.5 million polygons, a lot of time and effort has gone into completing this first version of the final map. Thanks to this collaborative endeavor, we have gained an important resource for better understanding and serving the California Community Colleges."

I am excited to announce that a statewide map of all 72 CCC district boundaries has been completed and is available for download here. Select the map on the left to view an enlarged image.

This set of GIS maps is a critical data analysis tool being used to integrate many different CCC data sets to answer questions important to the mission of the California Community Colleges. These maps can be used for research about regional demographics and population growth, election histories and bond election planning, enrollment forecasting, enrollment patterns of neighboring districts, traffic and public transit impacts to students and colleges, workforce development, and facilities planning and maintenance. They also can provide tools for the classroom; a GIS course at Rio Hondo College is already putting them to good use.