GIS Day 2007

GIS Open House is open for self-tours and exploration.
Location: Room 111 Mulford Hall

Computer workstations will be set up, each with a different example of how GIS can be used to solve problems in fields such as public health, public policy, watershed management, fire management, transportation, and planning.

Demos & Presentations
Location: Various rooms in Mulford Hall (TBA).

See presentations by Colleges/Universities, and demos by Google, ESRI, and others! Tentative demos include (subject to change):

• Using Google Earth
  Pamela Fox, Google Earth
  Google's Pamela Fox will introduce Google Earth, and walk through some of the many ways in which the application can help individuals and organizations. If desired, some audience members can follow along on lab computers. If time permits, discussion may include Google Maps API and Sketchup.
• Google Maps Creator: the easy way to customized Google Maps
  Tim DeChant, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley
  Tim will give an introduction to using Google Maps Creator for customized your Google Maps website. He will walk through the process step-by-step, with the audience following along on lab computers. This presentation will repeat in the evening's Professional Session.
• GIS Education
  Narinder Bansal, Ohlone College
  

University/Higher-Education GIS Open House & GIS Job Fair
Location: Rooms 111 & 115 Mulford Hall (these rooms are adjacent).

Come meet Bay Area GIS educators and find out what courses, certificates, and events are available and happening in your area! Also, find a job at the Job Fair! All students, job seekers, and employers are invited!

Professional Session
5:30PM – 8:30PM

GIS Open House is open for self-tours and exploration.
Location: Room 111 Mulford Hall

Computer workstations will be set up, each with a different example of how GIS can be used to solve problems in fields such as public health, public policy, watershed management, fire management, transportation, and planning.

Demos & Presentations
Location: Various rooms in Mulford Hall (TBA).

5:30 - 6:00 PM: Choose one.

• Using Google Earth
  Pamela Fox, Google Earth
  Google's Pamela Fox will introduce Google Earth, and walk through some of the many ways in which the application can help individuals and organizations. If desired, some audience members can follow along on lab computers. If time permits, discussion may include Google Maps API and Sketchup.
• Secrets of Creating Great Maps: Communication and Design Principles for GIS Users
  Larry Orman & Tim Sinnott, Greeninfo Network
  Do your maps mumble? Learn how to make them sing brilliantly in this workshop on communication strategy for cartography. We'll give you basic principles that will change how you see the map design process, pick on some not-so-good maps, and demonstrate building a really good map product.
• Using ModelBuilder & Python for Transportation Analysis
  Stella Wotherspoon, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
  Stella will demonstrate her use of ArcGIS ModelBuilder and Python scripting language together, in order to perform transportation analysis.

6:00 - 6:30 PM: Choose one.

• GIS Mashups: extending the typical visualization and simple lookup with GIS
  Michael Chenevey, ESRI
  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have always provided powerful data management, analysis, and visualization tools to solve problems and provide decision support. Alongside GIS, in recent years, popular visualization tools (e.g., Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, NASA World Wind, etc.) have provided simple means of sharing spatial data over the Internet, creating a profound interest in graphically contextualizing information that was once relegated to tables and spreadsheets. Now, the problem-solving power of GIS can be leveraged along with these visualization tools. GIS data and results authored at the desktop can be disseminated through the various visualization tools, enhancing problem solving and decision support.
• Restaurants, Rationality, and the Supersizing of America: Closest Facility Analysis using Network Analyst
  Ellen Kersten & Michael Anderson, School for Public Health, UC Berkeley
  Ellen will demonstrate the steps to take for using ArcGIS 9.2 Network Analyst extension to conduct closest facility analysis. The demo will be based on her work for a public health study titled Restaurants, Rationality, and the Supersizing of America, which used data on distances between zip codes with restaurants to zip codes without restaurants. Using zip code centroids and the ESRI U.S. Streets network dataset, Ellen will go over how to create a Closest Facility layer and calculate shortest driving distances among multiple points.
• Google Maps Creator: the easy way to customized Google Maps
  Tim DeChant, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley
  Tim will give an introduction to using Google Maps Creator for customized your Google Maps website. He will walk through the process step-by-step, with the audience following along on lab computers.

Break & Poster Session
Location: Hallway, Room 111, 115 Mulford Hall.
Food, drink, and ice cream are served.

Keynote address with
Google's Paul Rademacher,
the inventor of the first mashup, HousingMaps.com
Location: Room 159 Mulford.

The architecture of the web changed fundamentally in 2005 with the introduction (and sudden explosion) of map mashups. The web community discovered, almost overnight, that location data was literally everywhere and had only been waiting for some way to be easily visualized. Moreover, websites were no longer isolated, immutable entities, but could now be manipulated by end-users to suit their needs. In this talk we'll look at the young history of web mashups, beginning with the initial "hacking" of Google Maps to create HousingMaps.com. We'll see how the basic organization of the web continues to change today, and explore the role that geographic information can and will play in the evolution of the web.

Paul Rademacher is the creator of HousingMaps, the first map mashup. Built during late nights and weekends while working full-time at Dreamworks Animation on films such as Shrek 2, Madagascar, and Over The Hedge, HousingMaps was released before Google even had an official programming interface. Paul is now a Senior Software Engineer at Google, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Poster contest results will be announced!