GIS Education Center
1400 Evans Avenue
San Francisco, Ca 94124
Latitude: -122° 23' 6"
Longitude: 37° 44' 27"
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Instructor: GISEC Staff
Date: January 7th, 2010 (one class session)
Time: Thursday evening 6:00 - 8:00pm
Location: Asian Inc. Offices
1167 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103
(Please arrive promptly - Access to the building will only be available from 5:30-6:45pm)
Course #: TM001 Enroll Now
Cost: Free (
*Note: free workshops are registered with GISEC staff and not with Continuing Ed.)
Overview
• Have you heard about this thing called "GIS" and wondered what it is, exactly?
• Do you love working with maps, digital data, computers and the latest technology? • Are you new to GIS and need someone to work with you from "square one"? • Do you have some GIS experience but need to brush up on your skills or acquire new ones? • Do you want to learn about one of the fastest-growing fields in today's job market?
If any of these questions apply to you, we encourage you to attend this informative session and meet the instructors of the GIS Education Center at City College of San Francisco. We are a friendly, supportive and knowledgable group of GIS practitioners whose mission is to de-mystify GIS technology by offering low-cost, targeted, hands-on workshops at conveniently-located classrooms in San Francisco.
GIS is short for Geographic Information Systems and is a system and approach for studying the world around us by integrating hardware, software (we teach ArcGIS 9.3), people, procedures and digital geographic data. Specifically, a GIS is a powerful system that links information on digital maps (referred to as "features" in a GIS) with databases that describe those features (referred to as "attributes"). For example, a city planner may create a map in GIS that shows all of the properties in a jurisdiction, while linking each property to database records that describe land use, acreage, and city zoning regulations. Using this information, the city planner can make smarter decisions about guiding the growth and development of the community. A transportation efficiency manager might use GIS to create a map of all the bus routes in a region, while linking each route to a database that lists demographic information, ridership statistics, performance history and fare collection. Using this map, the manager can make more informed decisions about which areas of the region could benefit from enhanced public transit service.
In this meeting, you will be introduced to the wide variety of geospatial-related learning opportunities available through City College of San Francisco's GIS Education Center. You will have a chance to meet the program’s instructors, to ask questions about GIS as a problem-solving and analytical tool in a wide variety of location-focused disciplines, to learn about job and salary prospects, and to consider theoretical and practical approaches to building geospatial literacy. Such literacy is highly valued in today’s workplace and describes the thought processes, skill sets, data inputs, and software tools necessary to spatially analyze the world around us. Practitioners of geospatial analysis must understand the underlying theory inherent in spatial thinking, as well as methods to apply that thinking to problem-solving.
Workshop Includes
• No cost!
• An opportunity to meet the GIS Edcuation Center instructors and to ask questions about the GIS field, job prospects and the many courses offered by our center
• GIS demonstrations and hands-on time with ArcGIS 9.3 software in our computer lab
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