Today Is GIS Day at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy!
Today in WPC's downtown office at 209 Fourth Avenue, you can come in to learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and how it is used at the Conservancy and around the world. There will be a multi-media gallery of maps created at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and elsewhere. Our dedicated GIS staff will be on hand to guide you and answer your questions between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
GIS Day is an international event to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities and organizations. GIS software enables us to create maps and analyze spatial relationships. Being able to see spatial relationships is important because seeing data presented in the form of a map is very different from seeing data in a table of rows and columns. It allows you to see new patterns and connections within and between sets of information, which can have a profound effect on the conclusions you draw. It is no accident that people often say "I see" when meaning "I understand."
Learn more about how we identify, prioritize and make decisions affecting the “places we care about”! See firsthand how technology and expertise are brought together for conservation and protection of forest and agricultural land, biodiversity and watersheds.
Today's photo shows WPC's GIS/Natural Resources Specialist, Matt Hoff, discussing GIS with Shelly Zock, and WPC's Conservation Data Manager, Kiersten Carlson, in conversation with WPC land steward, volunteer and consultant Marcia McNutt Brissett. Photo by WPC Communication Specialist Jack Rowley.
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