Online Mapping & GIS

Online Mapping & GIS

Eli SagorUniversity of Minnesota Extension, St Paul

John GeisslerBoulder 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

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About digital mapping

Geographic information systems (GIS)

TechnicalExpensive

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About digital mapping

Free, user-friendlyoptions

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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

GMaps tools & instructions

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When to use each tool?When to use each tool?

Go for it!Go for it!

Live demoLive demo

Please add at least one line, placemark, and

polygon to your map.

Please add at least one line, placemark, and

polygon to your map.

Sample map 2 (Witkowski)

What will you NOT put on your

map?

What will you NOT put on your

map?

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

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Landview for Loggers, Foresters, and Landowners

Putting state-wide aerial photos, mapping and other geographic information at your fingertipsPutting 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 In

Zoom Out Pan

Move the Current Location

Zoom to State (Minnesota)

Exercise 1Use 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 2You 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 OnPLS Township (Symbol – Yellow solid line

width = 6 )

Background MapQuad Map

Section 3 Measuring Distance/Area and Creating Shapefiles

0.42 miles

44 acres

Measure Distance Measure Area

Tools to Measure Distance/Area

Supplemental Exercises

Section 4 Adding Text & Printing Maps

Section 5 Transferring data to/from GPS

Key points: review

Focus on innovation

Loggers, foresters, and landowners

Hands-on for all skill levels

Continuous improvement

Questions or Comments

Eli Sagor (612) 624-6948esagor@umn.edu

John Geissler(218) 721-3731jdgeissl@d.umn.edu