GIS in Action 2025

Last year at GIS in Action I presented on updates Metro has made to our RLIS Housing dataset in preparation for the upcoming Urban Growth Report and ended with a game called “What is it?” where we looked at examples of regional housing and tried to agree on a housing type based on available data. This year I’ve been working on a similar project with non-residential data, and am ready for a new round of “What is it? Non-Residential Edition!”.

Another part of our Urban Growth Report is an employment forecast- how much land do we need to accommodate future job growth in the region? What type of buildings do we need on that land? Before we can talk about what we need for the future, we need to understand the types of building we have now and how they are being used. In this talk I’ll walk through a GIS exercise looking at available data sources and my attempts to turn that into a building use. Then we will wrap it up with some fun, crowd-sourced building identification.