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🇺🇸 Los Angeles

GeoHub Open Geospatial Data Platform

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below · 🔎 Last verified · ◆ 6 sourced claims, none individually verified yet

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Launched in January 2016 by Mayor Eric Garcetti with Esri, GeoHub is the City of Los Angeles's public portal for location-based open data, offering more than 500 continuously updated map layers as downloadable files or live 'location-as-a-service' APIs. At launch the trade press described it as a blueprint for other cities to follow.

Live 📅 since 2016
Outcome🎯 Succeeded
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byCity of Los Angeles (GeoHub / ITA)
Scale🏙️ City-wide
🏛️ GovernanceOpen dataGIS & cadastreDigital government

Sources

↗ City of Los Angeles GeoHub (authority)Live official portal; datasets page lists current 2024–25 city layers.
↗ Esri ArcNews — Los Angeles Launched GeoHub (operator/press)Published 2016Launch date (29 Jan 2016), La Kretz Innovation Campus, 500+ layers, ArcGIS location-as-a-service.
↗ GovTech — LA Leads Open Data Innovation with the GeoHub (press)Published 9 August 2016Independent coverage of GeoHub as an open-data model for other cities.
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Evidence Passport · public beta 6 addressable claims, 3 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

Inspect the claims, one by one — verbatim text, sources and caveats for all 6

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-bb04c9e021bdf4c0 quantitative
Launched in January 2016 by Mayor Eric Garcetti with Esri
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What the mapping says
Esri's ArcNews report states: "Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti launched GeoHub at the city's La Kretz Innovation Campus on January 29." The same article describes the platform as a joint undertaking: "The City of Los Angeles and Esri have partnered on a project that will spur even more innovation in government, business, and other organizations: GeoHub." GovTech, writing in August 2016, places the launch in that year: "Earlier this year, the city of Los Angeles launched GeoHub".
Caveat
Neither source prints the full date. The ArcNews article gives only the day and month; the year comes from its Spring 2016 issue label and from GovTech's "earlier this year", written in August 2016.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Esri ArcNews — Los Angeles Launched GeoHub (operator/press)
  2. GovTech — LA Leads Open Data Innovation with the GeoHub (press)
Claim 2 clm-bbbeaea33982b452 descriptive
the City of Los Angeles's public portal for location-based open data
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What the mapping says
ArcNews describes exactly this function: "GeoHub gives city staff, businesses, app developers, nonprofit organizations, and the public access to the city's location-based data through an online portal." GovTech adds that it "connects citywide location-based data to plan for and support city operations" and calls it "an ambitious map-based portal".
Caveat
Both sources use the words "open data", but neither states a licence or terms of use for the material. "Open" here describes the access route, not a documented licence.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Esri ArcNews — Los Angeles Launched GeoHub (operator/press)
  2. GovTech — LA Leads Open Data Innovation with the GeoHub (press)
Claim 3 clm-7072b6777c13837b quantitative
more than 500
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
GovTech reports: "The platform increases efficiency in city services by providing real-time access to over 500 datasets shared across 20 city departments." This is the only count of GeoHub's holdings in any of the listed sources.
Caveat
The figure counts datasets rather than map layers, and it was published in August 2016, a few months after the launch. No listed source gives a current count, so the number is presented in the present tense on the strength of a decade-old article.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GovTech — LA Leads Open Data Innovation with the GeoHub (press)
Claim 4 clm-6173b186909ce431 descriptive
continuously updated map layers
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
ArcNews describes the feed this way: "GeoHub combines the city's geographic data into a location-as-a-service (LaaS) platform, allowing users to access live, continuously updated data directly from the city as a service."
Caveat
This is the platform vendor describing its own product at launch, not a measurement of how often individual layers are refreshed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Esri ArcNews — Los Angeles Launched GeoHub (operator/press)
Claim 5 clm-073a918d3f1c520c descriptive
as downloadable files or live 'location-as-a-service' APIs
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
ArcNews names both routes. On downloads: "People can download datasets as shapefiles, KML files, or into spreadsheets." On programmatic access: "Developers can access the city's data, along with open APIs, to build apps." The article calls the platform a "location-as-a-service (LaaS) platform", which is where the entry's phrase comes from.
Caveat
The vendor's own magazine is the only source for both the download formats and the API access; no listed source shows either route in use.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Esri ArcNews — Los Angeles Launched GeoHub (operator/press)
Claim 6 clm-4e923b241f1a4c54 descriptive
the trade press described it as a blueprint for other cities to follow
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
GovTech closes with: "The GeoHub serves as a blueprint for other cities looking to improve data access across departments and tell a story with data, in addition to making it accessible by the public." The same article states that under Mayor Garcetti and Chief Data Officer Lilian Coral, "L.A. has become a world leader in open data innovation".
Caveat
The article appeared six months after the launch and offers the blueprint as a prospect. It does not compare Los Angeles with other US cities and names no city that followed the model.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GovTech — LA Leads Open Data Innovation with the GeoHub (press)
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-22-evidence-baseline effective 2026-07-17 · created 2026-08-22

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
City of Los Angeles (GeoHub / ITA)
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

3 source dossiers

City of Los Angeles GeoHub (authority) geohub.lacity.org · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-0e2a2feafec1ae33
Publisher
Name not classified · geohub.lacity.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Live official portal; datasets page lists current 2024–25 city layers.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Esri ArcNews — Los Angeles Launched GeoHub (operator/press) esri.com · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b2bda2ee6515a326
Publisher
Name not classified · esri.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Launch date (29 Jan 2016), La Kretz Innovation Campus, 500+ layers, ArcGIS location-as-a-service.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GovTech — LA Leads Open Data Innovation with the GeoHub (press) govtech.com · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b36f00ca50664738
Publisher
Name not classified · govtech.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2016-08-09
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent coverage of GeoHub as an open-data model for other cities.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “GeoHub Open Geospatial Data Platform” — Los Angeles, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/la-geohub/ (last verified 2026-07-17). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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