A presentation delivered at the September 2008 Logger Training & Education conference, Minneapolis MN.

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

5. Accessing Aerial Photos, Topographic Maps, & Other Planning Tools

9. 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

10. Tools in Google Maps

11. GMaps tools & instructions

12. When to use each tool?

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

14. Sample map 1 (Gilmer)

15. Sample map 2 (Witkowski)

16. What will you NOT put on your map?

17. How to add photos to map features

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

22. Section 1 Moving Around Landview

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

25. Section 2 Overlays and Background Maps

26. Where does the data come from?

27. 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

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

29. Tools to Measure Distance/Area Measure Distance Measure Area

31. Supplemental Exercises

32. Section 4 Adding Text & Printing Maps

33. Section 5 Transferring data to/from GPS