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Introduction to Vector GIS For Land Surveyors: Conference Workshop Supporting Materials

This page contains supporting materials for the workshop entitled "Introduction to Vector GIS For Land Surveyors" that I am presentedat the 2010 CLSA/NALS Land Surveying Conference.

Presentation Slides and Handouts

Software

During the session I demonstrated the use of the open source desktop GIS program BizzJUMP. The latest version of BizzJUMP can always be downloaded from the SurveyOS Project web site at SurveyOS SourceForge Download Page.

I'm also including a copy of Inkscape and FW Tools in the presentation CD. These are both open source programs.

Data

During my software demonstration at the presentation I used TIGER roads GIS data for San Joaquin County, download the data I used in my demonstration for the "Introduction to Vector GIS for Land Surveyors" as a zip file.

Several people asked me where they could find the NAIP aerial photography I used during the demonstration in the session. You can learn more about the imagery at the USDA NAIP web site. You can find the MRSID mosaic images for Counties in California on the CASIL Download web page. You can find the MRSID mosaic images for Nevada Counties on a web page at the WM Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research Information Center. the You can view these MRSID files and export images with world files using the free GeoViewer 4.0 from LizardTech.

You can find the TIGER files I used during the demonstration at the TIGER Shapefile download web page hosted by ESRI.

You can download the PLSS layers I showed during the demonstration at the BLM GCDB web page.

Other Formats

I will be making the presentation and demonstration I gave at the conference available as a written article and a podcast with some short video clips. Check this web page in a couple weeks for download links to my session materials in these other formats..