Celebrate GIS Day and Geography Week with WPC on November 16th and 18th
It is time again for GIS Day and Geography Week. Almost anyone or anything you can name has a location in the world: a latitude/longitude coordinate, a street address, a watershed, a climatic zone, a nation, etc.
Geographic information systems (GIS) software is the ideal tool for finding the patterns and relationships in location-based information. It allows our spatial information to be dynamic, up-to-date and easily distributed. GIS Day is an annual event that presents the opportunity for schools, businesses and the general public to get a glimpse of how geographic information systems (GIS) are used in real-world application. At Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, we use GIS every day to map new species locations, research property offerings, select areas of focus for our forestry initiative, produce reports from our research projects, create garden and trail maps and much more.
The GIS staff at Western Pennyslvania Conservancy will once again host a map gallery open to the public in our downtown Pittsburgh office on Wednesday, November 16th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. We will be displaying many of the maps created as a result of our work on Forestry and Natural Heritage projects. GIS staff Brad Georgic and Matt Hoff will be on hand to guide you and answer questions. Come by and learn more about the many ways we are working to achieve conservation outcomes in Western Pennsylvania.
We will also be joining together with many other local groups, agencies and companies to celebrate at the Carnegie Science Center on Friday November 18th, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. We will do a presentation on conservation/land use planning targeted toward elementary and middle school kids. There will be many hands-on demonstrations which promise to be fun and educational for all ages.
>Basic information used in GIS originates from a variety of sources. Pictured today is a WPC staff members using a Global Positioning System unit (GPS) to pinpoint a location on the ground that can then be entered into a GPS database.
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