Bay Area Mapping Association: Meetings & Events

OpenStreetMap is an open source project to collaboratively map the entire world. It can be considered a sort of wikipedia for maps. There are over 80,000 participants in OpenStreetMap worldwide, and we are working to increase participation here in the US.

Participants collect information to put on the map (cycle / hiking trails, natural features, historic plaques, museums, other points of interest). They then upload the information to our online map. This information can be enhanced and corrected by the community, and the data can be utilized in many unique ways. Currently the map is being used to create bike maps, route maps, on GPS units and in many other capacities. This is all being provided and accomplished free of charge.

- Convenient, low cost, and quick!
- Get hands-on training using ESRI’s ArcGIS and Google Earth Pro!
- Non-Profit and Professional tracks designed for your needs
- Network with GIS professionals in the area
- Learn about GIS tips/tricks and data resources
- Build your résumé

Discount: Deduct $10 from the registration fee, if registered up to one week before the class begins
Please visit www.ccsfgis.org for workshop information and registration.

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

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."