After attending this meeting, I felt compelled to go out and create maps to share with the world! The FREE ESRI Seminar was held in Phoenix, AZ about three weeks ago, give or take two weeks… 
The Seminar showed how ESRI can help create easier and faster maps using their tools and sharing information (“But it’s mine!”-my son’s and wife’s favorite line). If you missed the seminar, go to another one. They have a free series that travels around United States to bring you information for the price of you not being so dang lazy…even though that is the ultimate goal, to have your information resources make the “best” decision for you while you spend the least amount of effort making the decision, win-win, right?.. Okay back to the Seminar.
The seminar was broken down into sections. Here is a resource list that might be helpful to those who both did and did not attend based off of the seminars agenda.
Session 1 Building Basemap
- Map Template Gallery (Download professionally designed templates to make better, faster maps). http://resources.esri.com/maptemplates
- Best Practices for Working with Map Templates (Free one-hour online training seminar. Learn tips on creating professionally designed maps using cartographically rich map templates and your data). http://www.esri.com/training
- ESRI Mapping Center (ArcGIS cartographic tips). http://mappingcenter.esri.com
- Cartographic Representations (Learn to symbolize your data). http://www.esri.com/representations
- Labeling with Maplex for ArcGIS (Documentation for Maplex for ArcGIS includes a 60 day trial). http://www.esri.com/maplexdocumentation
- Creating and Publishing Maps with ArcGIS (Instructor-led training course. Learn techniques for creating professional quality maps using a standard cartographic workflow). http://www.esri.com/training
- ArcGIS Community Basemap Program (Contribute or obtain authoritative geographic data from this ESRI-hosted, GIS community map). http://www.esri.com/communitymaps
Session 1-A Deploying the Map
- Using Data from Different Coordinate Systems http://www.esri.com/article34129
- Managing and Configuring ArcGIS Server (ESRI White Papers). http://www.esri.com/serverwhitepapers
- Geodatabase Replication http://www.esri.com/article34131
- Authoring and Deploying Fast Web Maps (Free one-hour online training seminar. Learn best practices for designing and publishing map services). http://www.esri.com/training
- How to Plan a Map Cache http://www.esri.com/mapcache
Session 2 Sharing Content
- ArcGIS Online (Sign up for free) (You will receive 1 GB of free storage, making it easier to share content with others through groups you either participate in or create). http://www.arcgisonline.com
- How to Get Started Using ArcGIS Online (Online video). http://www.arcgisonline.com/help/help.htm
- Layer Packages http://www.esri.com/layerpackages
- Sharing Layer Packages with ArcGIS Explorer (This blog post explains how to create good layer packages for sharing maps and content). http://www.esri.com/agxlayerpackages
- Creating Models (Online Video). http://www.esri.com/creatingmodels
- Introduction to ArcGIS Server (Instructor-led training course. Develop skills in authoring and sharing GIS content on the Web or across your organization). http://www.esri.com/training
- ArcGIS Explorer (download for free) (Start visualizing, analyzing, and presenting your content now. http://www.esri.com/arcgisexplorer
- ArcGIS Explorer Quick-Start Tutorial (Free one-hour online training seminar. Learn the basics of working with ArcGIS Explorer and how to create dynamic geopresentations in ArcGIS Explorer) http://www.esri.com/training
- Enhance ArcGIS Explorer with Add-on Tools (Click/Search: TOOLS) http://www.arcgisonline.com
I’m not going to tell you what’s coming in ArcGIS 10.
Look How EASY I Made It For You. Let me know if you want me to also read them off and click the links…
We received this message from ga parks and would like to share it with you!
I thought you’d like to know that Georgia State Parks is launching a statewide geocaching program called the Geo-Challenge and you and your readers are welcome to join in!
Starting May 8th, you’ll find an official cache page for each Georgia State Park (all 42) on http://www.geocaching.com. Many thanks to all the volunteer members of the Georgia Geocachers Association for placing and maintaining the caches! A complete list of participating parks and links to each cache page will live at http://www.gaparksgeocaching.com after the 8th.
You and your friends are invited to the kickoff event, May 8th, at Fort Yargo State Park. It’ll be a day of food, fun and of course, geocaching. This will coincide with the monthly meeting of the Georgia Geocachers Association. More details about the event and the program are available at http://www.gaparksgeocaching.com or you can call 404-657-9858.
Hope to see you there!
Just when you thought “emo” couldn’t get any more, well, “emo”…
Since 2004, over 2000 people from 25 different cities around the world have participated in Christian Nold’s Bio Mapping experiment. Using a GPS and GRS (Galvanic Skin Response) device (invented by Nold), Nold maps variant emotional responses of people as they travel through a city. The bio-sensor (GRS device), which is based on a lie-dectector, measures changes in the sweat level of the wearers’ fingers and the GPS captures response geographically. The assumption is that these changes are an indication of emotional intensity that is tracked by the GPS device and later mapped in Google Earth. I wonder what the map would look like at a Dashboard Confessional concert…
The London based artist, describes the unique mapping experience as a “total inversion of the lie-detector, which supposes that the body tells the truth, while we lie with our spoken words.” He further explains, “With Bio Mapping, people’s interpretation and public discussion of their own data becomes the true and meaningful record of their experience. Talking about their body data in this way, they are generating a new type of knowledge combining ‘objective’ biometric data and geographical position, with the ‘subjective story’ as a new kind of psychogeography.”
Although I joke about connecting emotions with geography, Nold’s device opens up a world of new marketing and psycho/social research capabilities. It also presses on the ever increasing questions of emergence of technology and the human emotion. Read also has an online book containing a collection of essays called Emotional Cartography.
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