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GIS Community Groups

Community groups that meet to network and discuss GIS technology, trends, and issues.

Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN) http://www.nativemaps.org/

American Planning Association (APA) Washington Chapter http://www.washington-apa.org/

American Public Works Association (APWA) Washington Chapter
http://washington.apwa.net/#/

American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
Columbia Chapter http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/calendar.html
Puget Sound Chapter http://puget.asprs.org/

Bellingham AutoCad User Group http://www.baug.com/

Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS) http://cugos.org/

Central Puget Sound GIS User Group (CPS-GIS) http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cps-gis

Central Washington GIS User Group (CWGIS), Contact Amanda Taub ataub_gis@yahoo.com

Cowlitz-Wahkiakum GIS User Group, Contact TJ Keiran tkeiran@cwcog.org

Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) Pacific NW Chapter http://pnwgita.com/

King County GIS User Group www.kingcounty.gov/operations/GIS/UserGroups.aspx

Land Surveyors Association of Washington (LSAW) http://www.lsaw.org/

Northwest Washington GIS User Group http://nwwagis.wordpress.com/

Northwest GIS User Group (NWGIS) https://www.nwgis.org/

Northwest HAZUS User Group http://www.usehazus.com/wahug

Portland Area GIS User Group (PAGIS) http://epdx.org/groups/541

Puget Sound CADdies https://www.augi.com/local-user-groups/group/puget-sound-caddies

Puget Sound Autodesk User Group https://www.augi.com/local-user-groups/group/puget-sound-autodesk-user-group

Southeast Washington/Northwest Oregon GIS User Group http://gisgroup.wordpress.com Tacoma AutoCAD User Group https://www.augi.com/local-user-groups/group/tacoma-autodesk-user-group Tri-Cities AutoCAD User Group https://www.augi.com/local-user-groups/group/tri-cities-user-group

Washington Geographic Information Council (WAGIC) https://ocio.wa.gov/boards-and-committees/washington-state-geographic-information-council-wagic-0

Washington Women in GIS and Technology https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6527088/profile

GISP (Geographic Information Systems Professional) User Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/132913

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GIS Community Groups Community groups that meet to network and discuss GIS technology, trends, and issues.

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T3G is a community of educators committed to helping other educators use GIS in instruction. The community is organized by Esri.

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esri webcourse: Getting Started with GIS

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esri webcourse: Getting Started with GIS

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A GIS helps people visualize and create information that can be used to make decisions and solve problems. Get an introduction to the basic components of a GIS. Learn fundamental concepts that underlie the use of a GIS with hands-on experience with maps and geographic data.

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A GIS helps people visualize and create information that can be used to make decisions and solve problems. Get an introduction to the basic components of a GIS. Learn fundamental concepts that underlie the use of a GIS with hands-on experience with maps and geographic data.

This course uses ArcMap. Are you looking for an ArcGIS Pro version? See this course.

Experience with Windows-based software for basic file management and browsing.

There are multiple versions of this course available.
ArcMap 10.7
To complete exercises, you need the following:

ArcGIS Desktop 10.7 (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)

ArcGIS Online

ArcMap 10.6
To complete exercises, you need the following:

ArcGIS Desktop 10.6 (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)

ArcGIS Online

ArcMap 10.5
To complete exercises, you need the following:

ArcGIS Desktop 10.5 (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)

ArcGIS Online

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Getting Started with GIS | Esri Training Web Course

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A GIS helps people visualize and create information that can be used to make decisions and solve problems. Get an introduction to the basic components of a GIS. Learn fundamental concepts that underlie the use of a GIS with hands-on experience with maps and geographic data. This course uses ArcMap.

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esri: GIS for Instruction & school administration

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esri: GIS for Instruction & school administration

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Interactive maps make your school a better place. From promoting student engagement in the classroom and driving projects that get students involved in their communities to improving administration of your school and district, maps and data provide a deeper understanding of specific topics and the world at large. Learners of all ages build skills in data management and analysis while solving problems with geographic information system (GIS) technology.

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Our best problem-solving is done with a complete sense of the situation. Maps show us what was, what is, and what can be. From local to global, explore what-if scenarios and design alternative solutions.

Online maps empower administrators to make decisions, even on the go. Interactive maps bring a curriculum to life in the classroom or during remote learning. Teachers and students can experience the past, immerse themselves in the places of literature, and understand human connections to and dependencies on our planet. Along the way, students build critical skills for college, career, and community life.

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GIS for Schools | Online Maps for Classrooms & Administration

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Our best problem-solving is done with a complete sense of the situation. Maps show us what was, what is, and what can be. From local to global, explore what-if scenarios and design alternative solutions. Online maps empower administrators to make decisions, even on the go.

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A global community of Esri users where you can find solutions, share ideas, and collaborate to solve problems with GIS

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Welcome

Welcome to Education, where you'll find updates (Blog), helpful resources (Docs) and places to ask questions (Questions) in your community of interest (Higher Education, K12 Instruction, Administration).

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Welcome to Education, where you'll find updates (Blog), helpful resources (Docs) and places to ask questions (Questions) in your community of interest (Higher Education, K12 Instruction, Administration).

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Official USGS software.

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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
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An official USGS software project is code reviewed and approved at the bureau-level for distribution.

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Tap into over 140 years of USGS research in the natural sciences with lesson plans, activities, maps, podcasts, lectures, videos, animations, and more.

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Map Viewer is a browser-based mapping tool that can view, create, and save web maps . Map Viewer can be used to perform common GIS tasks, such as to explore the contents of a web map, change the basemap , add data layers and styles , perform measurements, and execute different types of data analyses

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Using Map Viewer, you can create interactive web maps that you can share. It features responsive mapping and real-time updates to the map as you work. Map Viewer has an intuitive design that allows you to view and manage your content in one dedicated area and to customize and configure your map in another area. The following sections provide an overview of the new design and tools.

Tip:

You can use keyboard shortcuts to quickly complete common workflows in Map Viewer. To view the full list of keyboard shortcuts in Map Viewer, press Alt+? on Microsoft Windows or Option+? on Mac.

Map Viewer design

An ArcGIS web map is an interactive display of geographic information that you can use to tell stories and answer questions. Web maps contain a basemap, a set of data layers (many of which include interactive pop-ups with information about the data), an extent, a legend, and navigation tools to pan and zoom.

Use Map Viewer to view, explore, and create web maps in ArcGIS Online. Navigate the map to view various areas. Click features or imagery on the map to view pop-ups with information about the data. Rotate the map to get a new perspective. Experiment with zoom levels to see which features and layers are visible at different scales.

Map Viewer includes two vertical toolbars-the Contents (dark) toolbar and the Settings (light) toolbar. Use the Contents toolbar to manage and view the map contents and work with the map. Use the Settings toolbar to access options for configuring and interacting with map layers and other map components.

Use the Expand and Collapse buttons at the bottom of each toolbar (for example, and on the Settings toolbar) to expand or collapse them. You can also use the Hide interface button on the map to collapse both toolbars at once and maximize space to work with the map.

Contents toolbar

Manage and view key components of the map using the Contents (dark) toolbar buttons. For example, you can change the basemap and add layers. Click the Layers button to see what layers are in the map.

You can explore maps, add and configure layers, and more without signing in. To save your work, sign in before creating your map.

Layers in the map are drawn in the same order in which they appear in the Layers pane. You can organize layers to draw in any order and click Hide layer or Show layer to hide or show, respectively, individual layers. You can also click Options to expand the list of options for the layer and view the layer's properties.

Some layers have symbology that appears in a legend. View the Legend pane to see how the data layer is represented on the map.

You can also use the Contents toolbar to perform actions such as opening, saving, sharing, and printing maps. Use the Information button to learn what to expect in future updates.

Settings toolbar

The Settings (light) toolbar includes options for working with individual layers in the map, as well as options for working with the map itself. Select a layer in the map to access the layer options on the toolbar. You can use the selector at the top of the active pane to quickly navigate between layers.

Layer options are easy to find at the top of the Settings toolbar. The layer options displayed depend on the type of layer selected and, in some cases, the data contained in the layer. For example, the Clustering button is only displayed when a feature layer containing point features is selected.

Use the Settings toolbar to configure pop-ups, filters, clustering, labels, and more. Your changes are instantly visible on the map, allowing you to experiment and explore various options. Click the Styles button to explore smart mapping styles exclusive to Map Viewer, such as dot density, as well as many other styles. You can try different symbols and color ramps for features and imagery in the map.

Some buttons on the Settings toolbar allow you to interact with and get new information from the map. These buttons are displayed at the bottom of the toolbar. You can search for locations, measure distance or area, view time-animated data, get directions, and find geographic coordinates.

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Get started with Map Viewer-ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation

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Using Map Viewer, you can create interactive web maps that you can share. It features responsive mapping and real-time updates to the map as you work. Map Viewer has an intuitive design that allows you to view and manage your content in one dedicated area and to customize and configure your map in another area.

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The Geospatial Revolution project is the go-to source for government, education, and workforce development to learn how geospatial technology is changing the world. The project is anchored in a world-class research university and trusted for its PBS editorial standards.

Produced by WPSU Penn State, the project shares how geospatial information influences nearly everything. Our mission is to increase public understanding; strengthen interest in math, science, and technology; and inspire the next generation.

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A web-based serial release and outreach program that will educate viewers about the location-based technologies and geospatial information, and the inherent challenges that these technologies pose to privacy, the marketplace, national security, and personal productivity.

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esri playlist: GIS in School Instruction

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General intro to GIS and its use in classroom instruction, plus demos of different tools.

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General intro to GIS and its use in classroom instruction, plus demos of different tools.

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Teaching materials to help your students update their knowledge and develop skills that will allow them to think more critically about global issues. They are not designed only to provide facts but also to help them discover what is wrong about their worldview and to flip it to become a more accurate one.

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As teachers, you have an amazing opportunity to help your students dismantle global misconceptions from an early age. The world is changing faster than ever before and it is extremely important that young people have the skills and knowledge to make the right decisions and navigate it properly.

These teaching materials should be used to help your students update their knowledge and develop skills that will allow them to think more critically about global issues. They are not designed only to provide facts but also to help them discover what is wrong about their worldview and to flip it to become a more accurate one.

How fact-based is your own worldview? Test yourself before going further: https://gapm.io/test

Once you have tested yourself we recommend you to check out our lessons where you find lots of useful material to download and use in your classroom.

Please watch Hans and Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling-Rönnlund explain the frameworks and theories used in the teaching materials in these video explainers and Ted Talks .

You can also explore global, regional and country-level data on lots of different subjects in our , and you can see how people live on different income levels on Dollar Street .

All of our materials have been tested by teachers. They are free to use and adapt as long as the source is acknowledged. If you have feedback, questions or would like to share your own materials with us , send us an email at

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Tools to visualize global data and statistics.

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Visual Data of world information and geography.

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Check our other visualizations

Other indicators visualized on maps:

(In English only, for now)

AIDS estimated deaths (UNAIDS estimates)

Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)

Age at first marriage, female

Age at first marriage, male

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people living with HIV)

Antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV)

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)

Children (0-14) living with HIV

Children with fever receiving antimalarial drugs (% of children under age 5 with fever)

Completeness of birth registration (%)

Completeness of death registration with cause-of-death information (%)

Diabetes prevalence (% of population ages 20 to 79)

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 receiving oral rehydration and continued feeding)

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)

GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)

Health expenditure per capita (current US$)

Health expenditure per capita, PPP

Health expenditure, private (% of GDP)

Health expenditure, public (% of GDP)

Health expenditure, total (% of GDP)

Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

Immunization, BCG (% of one-year-old children) - Turberculosis

Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12-23 months) - Diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and Tetanus

Immunization, HepB3 (% of one-year-old children) - Hepatitis B

Immunization, Hib3 (% of children ages 12-23 months) - Meningitis, Pneumonia, and Epiglottitis

Immunization, Polio (% of one-year-old children)

Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)

Incidence of HIV (% of uninfected population ages 15-49)

Incidence of malaria (per 1,000 population at risk)

Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people)

Labor force, female (% of total labor force)

Labor force, total

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above)

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)

Literacy rate, youth male (% of males ages 15-24)

Malaria cases reported

Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000)

People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population)

Physicians (per 1,000 people)

Population ages 65 and above (% of total)

Population growth (annual %)

Population, male (% of total)

Postnatal care coverage (% mothers)

Prevalence of HIV, female (% ages 15-24)

Prevalence of HIV, male (% ages 15-24)

Prevalence of HIV, total (% of population ages 15-49)

Prevalence of overweight (% of children under 5)

Prevalence of overweight, female (% of female adults)

Prevalence of overweight, male (% of male adults)

Prevalence of syphilis (% of women attending antenatal care)

Public spending on education, total (% of GDP)

Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk)

Rural population growth (annual %)

School enrollment, secondary (% gross)

School enrollment, secondary, male (% net)

Sex ratio at birth (male births per female births)

Smoking prevalence, females (% of adults)

Smoking prevalence, males (% of adults)

Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population)

Tuberculosis death rate (per 100,000 people)

Unemployment, total (% of total labor force)

Urban population growth (annual %)

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Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100

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GeoInquiries | Standards-Based Inquiry Activities for Teaching Map-Based Content

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GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. Each activity is designed using a common inquiry model & can be presented quickly.