Technology in Planning and Environmental Analysis Resource Page

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 Materials 

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.

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 

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

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