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GIS Techniques and Glossary: Understanding the Landscape of Geospatial Lyzi Diamond Brett Lord-Castillo Code for America Peer Network July 22, 2014
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The changing geospatial landscape by Lyzi Diamond

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GIS is extremely powerful, but the language of maps can be confusing. Join us to discuss how we can effectively communicate within City Hall to build enthusiasm for mapping. We will explore some of the latest techniques for web mapping and spatial analysis.
The sheer number of tools beyond ArcGISDesktop can be intimidating. Where do you start? By learning the vocabulary and the landscape of geospatial technology, we can start to pick the best tools for the work we're seeking to accomplish and adequately assess which particular one is best for any given job.
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  • 1. GIS Techniques and Glossary: Understanding the Landscape of Geospatial Lyzi Diamond Brett Lord-Castillo Code for America Peer Network July 22, 2014

2. Goals for Today Goals for Today 1. Learn about the elements of the modern geospatial ecosystem. 2. Define terms, identify resources, and understand goals and outputs. 3. Discuss the role of the geospatial community in the open data and civic innovation movements. 4. Have super much fun! :) 3. What do we mean, geospatial? Geospatial data is data that is associated with a particular location. 4. So what about GIS? According to Esri, a geographic information system (GIS) lets us visualize, question, analyze, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends. 5. How do we use maps in government? Let us count the ways... 6. PART ONE: Demystifying Web Maps 7. What is a web map? Hint: its more than just one thing. 8. CartoDB cartodb.com 9. ArcGIS Online arcgis.com 10. Mapbox mapbox.com 11. GitHub github.com 12. Google Maps maps.google.com 13. Build Your Own! 14. PART TWO: The Role of Programming in Geospatial 15. JavaScript! 16. D3! ArcGIS JS API! OpenLayers! LeafletJS! 17. Python! 18. ArcPy! 19. Shapely! Fiona! RasterIO! 20. GDAL/OGR2OGR 21. SQL :| 22. PostGIS 23. PART THREE: Storage and Hosting 24. MANY ways to host! MANY types of data! 25. PART FOUR: OpenStreetMap and Open Data 26. Socrata CKAN ArcGIS Open Data APIs on APIs on APIs 27. GIS and Open Data 28. Maptime! maptime.io 29. Code for America Brigades! codeforamerica.org/brigade 30. In conclusion... 31. Thanks! Slides: bit.ly/cfa-geo Brett: @blordcastillo Lyzi: @lyzidiamond CfA: @codeforamerica codeforamerica.org/ about/peernetwork/