Online Mapping & GIS

Online Mapping & GIS Eli Sagor University of Minnesota Extension, St Paul John Geissler Boulder Lake ELC, Duluth 2008 LOGGER TRAINING & EDUCATION CONFERENCE

What we’ll cover

Goals and parameters

Finding planning tools online

Creating custom maps

Landview: more powerful app

Background

GPS curriculum ~2003

Focus on innovation

Loggers, foresters, and landowners

Hands-on for all skill levels

Accessing Aerial Photos, Topographic Maps, & Other Planning Tools

About digital mapping

Geographic information systems (GIS)

Technical Expensive

About digital mapping

Free, user-friendly options

Type place name, zip, coordinates, etc to search and view Save and access your previous places here Turn data layers on or off by selecting boxes Email, print, or view data in Google Maps

Tools in Google Maps

GMaps tools & instructions

When to use each tool?

Go for it! Live demo Please add at least one line, placemark, and polygon to your map.

Sample map 1 (Gilmer)

Sample map 2 (Witkowski)

What will you NOT put on your map?

How to add photos to map features

Assignments:

Group 1: Lat / long coordinates for Itasca State Park

Group 2: Elevation difference between the peak of Eagle Mountain and Lake Superior

Group 3: A Cloquet Forestry Center timber harvest site

Group 4: The Grand Rapids DNR Regional Office

Group 5: A gas station near St. Hilaire, MN

Group 6: Rajala’s Deer River mill

Landview for Loggers, Foresters, and Landowners Putting state-wide aerial photos, mapping and other geographic information at your fingertips

Workshop Objectives

Use Landview to:

Browse spatial data

Create simple line and polygon shapefiles

Create, view, and print maps

Download and upload data to a Garmin GPS

Section 1 Moving Around Landview

Tools to Move Around the “Display Window” Zoom Out Pan Move the Current Location Zoom to State (Minnesota) Zoom In

Exercise 1

Use Landview to find and zoom in on the forest

around Thomson Dam, Carlton County

Section 2 Overlays and Background Maps

Where does the data come from?

Exercise 2 You are given the following Lat/Long coordinates for a logging landing. Create the below map using the landing as your current location. Lat= 46 ° 42.278’ Long = 92° 31.870’ Overlays Turned On PLS Township (Symbol – Yellow solid line width = 6 ) Background Map Quad Map

Section 3 Measuring Distance/Area and Creating Shapefiles 0.42 miles 44 acres

Tools to Measure Distance/Area Measure Distance Measure Area

Supplemental Exercises

Section 4 Adding Text & Printing Maps

Section 5 Transferring data to/from GPS

Key points: review