The good folks over at the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) have been Busy Bees pulling together educational events worthy of your attention. So much so, today's post is pretty much limited to the facts. Here they are:
Item 1: On Wednesday, April 10, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), and NAPSG offered online training sessions on the DHS Geospatial Infrastructure (GII) and FGDC Geospatial Platform. NAPSG has made those presentations available for download/viewing at the link below:
(DHS, FGDC, April 10, 2013)
Item 2: NAPSG's next training event will occur on May 29, when it will be hosting a DHS, Esri and Geofeedia webinar on Social Media and GIS. Here are the stated learning objectives:
Learn how your GIS Platform leverages location for monitoring, visualizing and analyzing social media while also helping you engage the public for crowdsourcing reports from the field. The public can be a force multiplier- learn how GIS can help you use them to your advantage.
Learn how your GIS Platform can easily add social media as another data layer - and not just any data, context-specific data. Using geography and keywords, learn how to filter the social conversation into relevant streams of information using simple and focused applications.Here are the event details:
- Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2013
- Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT (1:00 PM-2:00 PM Central)
- Cost: Free - but space is limited, so register early
- More details: Click here
- To Add to Calendar: Click here
(Login details are provided during registration)
Item 3: Coming on the heels of the above event, NAPSG's Symbology Working Group will be hosting a Symbology Virtual Training workshop focusing on methodology. Here's the pitch:
The methodology is designed to serve as a common-sense guideline for creating symbology for an incident, hazard, and pre-incident information. The resulting symbols are usable both electronically as well as on all-important paper maps.
NAPSG will walk attendees through the symbology methodology. Also NAPSG will explain the resources under development to help agencies set up their own capability.Here are the event details:
- Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013
- Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT (11:30 AM-12:30 PM Central)
- Cost: Free - but space is limited, so register early
- More details: Click here
- To Add to Calendar: Click here
(Login details are provided during registration)
Comment: Truly hope you will have the opportunity to participate in one of these informative sessions!
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