The King County GIS Center has updated its 2019 calendar to include new instructor-led, face-to-face classes in Seattle through December. Our students find that instructor-led face-to-face training provides the ideal learning environment for developing hands-on GIS skills. Get in the picture by signing up for KCGIS training today! Our GIS training program provides benefits to…
Up to this point, Where in King County? questions have required that you use iMap, King County’s flagship web mapping application. This month’s question requires that you explore the use of another useful King County GIS web mapping application: Census Viewer. Don’t worry, Census Viewer has much the same functionality as iMap. The key difference…
My friend, colleague, and former URISA President Barry Wellar was inducted on March 14, 2019 into the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Governor General Payette said of Barry: Barry Wellar is a trailblazer in the field of geographic information science…
Have you taken the leap with ArcGIS Pro? Register today for the inaugural offering of our new Intermediate ArcGIS Pro class in Seattle on April 23-25. One of the things that makes ArcGIS so useful is the tremendous amount of data available to map and analyze. In this new intermediate level class on the use…
At the 2019 Washington GIS Conference in May, Nicole Franklin, Chief Equity Officer for King County IT, and I will present a brand-new workshop, Introduction to GIS for Equity and Social Justice. The workshop is intended for GIS professionals and for Equity & Social Justice (ESJ) and public policy practitioners. The cost for this half-day…
King County GIS Center’s training partner Geospatial Training Services is coming to sunny Seattle in April and May to teach two great GIS programming with Python classes. Introduction to Programming ArcGIS Pro with Python will be on Monday and Tuesday, April 29-30 and Intermediate ArcGIS Pro Programming with Python will be on Wednesday May 1.…
For experienced ArcGIS users who are familiar with ArcMap and ArcCatalog, the prospect of learning a new interface can be daunting. And who has the time? The Thurston County GeoData Center in Olympia decided to make the time and jumped in with both feet by hiring the King County GIS Center to conduct a special onsite edition of our ArcGIS Pro Quick-Start for the GIS Professional class.
Time, space, and money are each finite and interconnected. They impact each decision that we make. GIS is the optimal tool to help companies, agencies, students, and researchers discover how to best utilize their finite resources. ArcGIS Desktop is still the workhorse software tool that most agencies and companies use for the bulk of their…
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