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GIS Education Center
1400 Evans Avenue
San Francisco, Ca 94124
Latitude: -122° 23' 6"
Longitude: 37° 44' 27"

About GISEC

Well-trained people knowledgeable in spatial analysis and skilled in using GIS software are essential to the GIS process. There are three factors to becoming a GIS professional: education, career path, and networking. The GIS Education Center will get you started with your education, network you through organizations such as Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA), and introduce you to people who work as GIS professionals.

The GIS Education Center at City College of San Francisco teaches GIS concepts and applications using state-of-the-art software, ESRI's ArcGIS 9. Through customized workshops and hands on classes, the Center offers instruction in the fundamentals of GIS and how it can be applied to your job, whether you work for a nonprofit, a transit company, city government, or a business. The reach of GIS expands into all disciplines

Center Goals
• Training of current and future GIS technicians and users
• Identification of core GIS competencies
• Standardization of curriculum needs
• Initiating a cooperative network of GIS users
• Development of data

Center for Geospatial Learning
City College of San Francisco is one of several community colleges across the nation that is forming a national center to support the training needs of the GIS industry. The center will be a resource for Geospatial Technology curriculum and professional development and will serve as a hub in geospatial information for government and business communities.

Testimonials

"This was a great course for those of us who were new to GIS and its capabilities. It has made it easy for me to move into utilizing GIS-based hydraulic & hydrologic (H&H) modeling programs such as InfoWorks & DHI Mike Urban"

Stephen Edwini-Bonsu, PhD, P.E, P.Eng,

Engineer San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco

"The GIS Quick Course covered all the bases to get you started on your own projects."

- Cherry Chaicharn, City of Albany

"This class helped me realize the potential for the use of the Geographic Information System features. It gave me a better understanding of how to utilize these features to generate reports and graphics displays that showed concepts in a visual format. It also rekindle an appreciation of geography and its importance. A great course I enjoyed the student presentations at the end that helped to understand how GIS was being utilizes through their interests."

R. Mike Siegenthaler
Elect.Maint.Tech.
City and County of San Francisco
Hetch Hetchy Water and Power

"Our instructor has solid, real-world GIS experience and a great sense
of humor. He shares ArcGIS tips and GIS data hacks that you won't find
in textbooks, manuals, or online help."

"CCSF's GIS Quick Start is a good deal because it gives you ways to
keep learning after the class is over -- free access to ESRI Web
training and a student copy of ArcGIS."

Claudia Willen
Writer & Editor
Cultural Heritage Imaging
www.c-h-i.org