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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
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Online Mapping & GIS
Eli SagorUniv ersity 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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Accessing Aerial Photos,
Topographic Maps, & Other Planning Tools
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About digital mapping
Geographic information
systems (GIS)
Technical
Expensive
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About digital mapping
Free, user-friendly
options
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Ty pe place name,
zip, coordinates, etc to search and v iew
Sav e and access
y our prev ious places here
Turn data lay ers on
or off by selecting boxes
Email, print, or view
data in Google Maps
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Tools 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 1 (Gilmer)
Sample map 2 (Witkowski)
What will you
NOT put on your map?
What will you
NOT put on your map?
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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
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Landview for Loggers, Foresters, and Landowners
Putting statePutting state--wide aer ial photos, mapping and other geographic information at wide aer ial photos, mapping and other geographic information at your your
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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
Mov e 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
l ine width = 6 )
Background Map
Quad 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) 624-6948
John Geissler(218) 721-3731
