GIS Map Accessible Description

This accessible description is for the map titled Find My Trash & Recycling Service Provider. The map is a Ventura County service area map shown over aerial imagery. The package metadata establishes the layer hierarchy, saved visibility, and label behavior. The layer images show large translucent service polygons across the county, smaller gray hatched exception polygons, blue supervisorial district outlines, subdued city polygons, and a county boundary reference overlay.

Map Summary

The map shows county trash and recycling service areas across Ventura County. The main operational layer divides the county into broad North, Central, Southeast, and Southwest service areas. A second solid waste layer identifies smaller places that are not contracted with the County for service, including Bell Canyon CSD, Channel Islands Beach CSD, Point Mugu Naval Base, and Bard Lake. County reference layers add supervisorial districts, city boundaries, and county boundaries. In the saved map view, the solid waste group and county boundaries are on, while supervisorial districts and city boundaries are off.

Geographic Context

The map is centered on Ventura County and the surrounding county edge context. The solid waste service coverage extends across the county from approximately 119 degrees 28 minutes 21 seconds west to 118 degrees 38 minutes 15 seconds west, and from 34 degrees 2 minutes 24 seconds north to 34 degrees 54 minutes 29 seconds north. Within that county setting, the city boundary layer metadata identifies incorporated places including Fillmore, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Santa Paula, Oxnard, Ojai, Port Hueneme, Camarillo, San Buenaventura, and Thousand Oaks. The city boundary layer extent runs approximately from 119 degrees 21 minutes 9 seconds west to 118 degrees 37 minutes 53 seconds west, and from 34 degrees 5 minutes 15 seconds north to 34 degrees 28 minutes 32 seconds north. The supervisorial district layer extends approximately from 119 degrees 29 minutes 16 seconds west to 118 degrees 37 minutes 27 seconds west, and from 33 degrees 7 minutes 37 seconds north to 34 degrees 54 minutes 29 seconds north. The county boundaries layer metadata reports a much broader national county extent, so the county focused imagery is a saved view subset of that broader reference layer.

Legend and Symbology

What the Map Shows

The map shows who provides trash and recycling service across Ventura County and where a few named places sit outside the county contracted service system. The broad service area pattern is countywide. The most urban corridor in the south and southeast includes the places named in the package city layer such as Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, and San Buenaventura. Farther north and inland, the service pattern extends through the Ojai area and the Santa Clara River Valley around Santa Paula and Fillmore, then into the larger unincorporated mountain and remote areas of the county.

The exception layer adds smaller named places that break that larger pattern. Those exception places are Bell Canyon CSD, Channel Islands Beach CSD, Point Mugu Naval Base, and Bard Lake. In visual terms, the map reads first as large translucent franchise areas, then as smaller gray hatched exception patches, and then as optional administrative context from city boundaries, supervisorial districts, and county boundaries. The result is a county service map that can be read both by large regional coverage and by place based reference to specific cities and communities.