[Calclg-l] FW: Reminder: Mapping California Communities - GIS Workshops

[Woodward, Lucinda]

For your information.

 

Lucinda M. Woodward 

Supervisor, Local Government Unit

California Office of Historic Preservation

(916) 653-9116 voice

(916) 653-9824 fax

lwoodward at parks.ca.gov

 

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From: Gina Clemmer, New Urban Research
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:54 PM
To: Woodward, Lucinda
Subject: Reminder: Mapping California Communities - GIS Workshops

 

Mapping California Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS and
Community Analysis 
8:30 am - 4:30 pm --- Note: These are One Day Workshops

San Diego: August 26th, 2008
Sacramento: September 18th, 19th, 2008
Los Angeles: September 11th, 12th, 2008
Irvine: September 9th, 2008
San Jose: September 25th, 2008
Fresno: October 3rd, 2008
San Francisco: September 4th, 5th, 2008

More Info/Registration:
http://www.newurbanresearch.org/workshops/california-gis.htm
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Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community 

Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3 to do the following: 

Creating thematic maps 

Participants will learn to create thematic maps of their own data, and
display spatial trends in information. 

Address mapping (geocoding)

Participants will learn to map addresses of their clients, their
projects or incidents such as crime and disease.

Download and map Census & American Community Survey data

Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as
poverty, race, language, population,
transportation, education and workforce characteristics.

Also participants will learn to:
Conduct spatial queries
Download free shapefiles 
Create well designed maps 

Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. Exercises are
designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required. 

Materials

+ Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation,
exercises and reference worksheets, 

+ ArcGIS (ArcView 9.3) software 60-day trial CD set,

+ Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files
(converted to shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school
districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful
geographies

+ Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local
Demographic Analysis Online Workshop

 What People Are Saying 

City of San Francisco: "One of the best computer training courses I've
been to, lively, informative, good level of difficulty for target
audience."

California Cancer Registry: "The workshop was great! The instructor is
very knowledgeable and helpful. I would definitely recommend this course
to a new GIS user."

UCLA: "This was such a great course! I appreciated the information on
where to find useful data."

Fresno City College: "This workshop was very informative and
enlightening. It demonstrated very powerful tools and concepts that I
will definitely be using in the future. The instructor was patient and
gave a lot of technical insight to the product."

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