The Ulster County Planning Department held it's seminar on "Technology in Planning and Environmental Analysis" on Monday June 9th, 2014 at Ulster Community College.
- Presentation Materials
- Case Study Source Materials
- Web Tools
- Training Opportunities
- Social Media Tools
Presentation Materials
Case Study Materials
- Ulster County Open Space Plan
- Town of Saugerites Open Space Vision Plan
- U.S. Route 9W Corridor Enhancement Plan - Town of Ulster
- Walkway/Gateway Area Overlay District - Town of Lloyd
Web Tools
Training Opportunities and Software
UCC - Introduction to GIS, Utlizing Open Source GIS
MOOCs - (Massive Open Online Course) - Platforms that partner with top univiersities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
- GIS MOOC - Penn State - Maps and the Geospatial Revolution (5 Week Course)
- https://www.coursera.org/
- https://www.edx.org/
OpenCourseWare - course lessons created at universities and published on the Internet.
- Penn State – Open Courses from the Geography Department with several for GIS
- Tufts University - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Urban and Environmental Analysis
- MIT - Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Online GIS Training & Resources
- Google and YouTube are your best friend to find how to GIS Trainings, Videos, Webinars
- ESRI Trainings - http://www.esri.com/training/
- ESRI Videos - http://video.esri.com/
- GeoSpatial Training Services - http://geospatialtraining.com/
- http://www.gislounge.com/learn-gis-for-free/
- GIS Geography
Software
- ArcGIS for Home Use ($100/year)
- Google Earth - FREE
- Shp2kml is a stand alone tool that transforms GIS layers to Google Earth - (http://www.zonums.com/files/Shp2kml.zip)
- Quantum GIS (QGIS) - FREE
Data
- Ulster County - http://ulstercountyny.gov/ucis/gis-data