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- Sunday, 14 August 2011 01:59
- GISEC Staff
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It depends. The GIS II - Vector & Raster Analysis workshop and other 200 level workshops are designed with the understanding students already possess basic fundamental GIS skills. If you haven't used GIS in over a year it may be a good idea to take the GIS Quick Start as a refresher. However, if you're currently engaged with GIS or confident you've retained the basic GIS skills, which are taught in GIS Quick Start, then consider enrolling in the 200 level courses. Contact the instructor to discuss your situation.
Can I bring my own personal computer to class?
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- Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:26
- GISEC Staff
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Students are welcome to bring their personal computers into class to work on assignments. You will need a USB flash drive for saving files and transferring them to the personal computer. In addition, students should install the following software:
Required Software
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
Mac users
ArcGIS is not distributed for Mac's, you must have: BootCamp, SWSoft's Parallels, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox installed.
Please note CCSF does not provide Wi-Fi service at this time.
Do I really need to bring a storage device like a flash drive?
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- Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:25
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Yes. You will want to take your data with you. Even if you don't have a computer at home you may want practice at work or in the open lab.
Some web-based services such as YouSendIt.com and TransferBigFiles.com provide free transfer of single files up to a certain size, usually 1 GB. Multiple data files can be consolidated into a single ZIP file prior to transfer. Notification of successful transfers arrive via email.
There is no server space provided to store your work.
Do you demonstrate how to use census data with GIS files?
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- Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:25
- GISEC Staff
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Yes. The course material uses quite a bit of census data for various examples. In addition, students must learn how to join tabular census data with existing GIS files; therefore, a lab exercise is specifically designed to show you how to do this.
Why is this class several weeks long? And why not taught over a weekend?
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- Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:24
- GISEC Staff
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The answer is simply this: learning the basics of a desktop GIS software package, terminology, and concepts isn't feasible, in our honest opinion, over two or three days. Feedback from students has been clear in that they felt more time was needed to digest the material and feel comfortable working with the desktop GIS application. We believe our model best suits students who want to learn and retain GIS skills without feeling lost after a weekend crash course and don't desire a semester long course.
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