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Workshops

With over 40 presentations scheduled, this is just a taste of what you can expect from this year's conference. You can also download the FULL ABSTRACTS for all the hands-on and classroom workshops.


Hands-on Workshops

Working with the ESRI User Community Resource Centers
Dan Haag and Tom Brenneman, ESRI
Early in 2009 ESRI unveiled the Resource Center for Water Utilities Management, the first of many resource centers designed around the needs of specific GIS user communities to help users quick-start their GIS implementations. This half-day workshop will provide an overview of the user community resource centers for Water Utilities, Public Safety and Land Records, followed by a hand-on session where you can work with the resource center application templates for ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server using sample data or your own.

Level: Intermediate

Watershed Hydrology: Impervious Surface Analysis in ArcGIS 9.3
Sally Letsinger, Ph.D., GISP, Center for Geospatial Data Analysis, Indiana University
The Spatial Analyst extension to ArcGIS provides powerful geoprocessing tools that work with raster data models. The most powerful spatial analyses incorporate both vector and raster data models, so we will explore an application common to the needs of watershed managers and conduct an impervious surface analysis. This type of analysis can provide quantitative information on the environmental condition of a watershed, which in turn, can provide guidance to implementation measures that can be taken to protect water quality in the watershed. This workshop emphasizes hands-on exercises to organize the data layers and conduct the analysis.

Level: Intermediate

Creating Models with the ModelBuilder in ArcGIS 9.3.1
Melissa Brenneman, TopoWorks
The ModelBuilder environment provides a graphical interface for building geoprocessing models which allow you to perform analysis and automate common tasks. ModelBuilder helps you more fully utilize your GIS by providing a rich environment that integrates GIS and process models. This workshop will help you learn how to create and execute models with geoprocessing tools and data, how to use the ModelBuilder environment to document and distribute your models so they can be used by others, and how to use scripts with your models. This workshop emphasizes hands-on practice through software exercises to accomplish GIS workflows.

Level: Intermediate

Using GIS for Community Planning
Kevin J. Mickey, GISP, The Polis Center At IUPUI
Community planners are tasked with identifying creative ways to address a variety of complex issues and challenges faced by the communities that they serve. GIS provides tools for mapping and analyzing many of the types of information that are necessary to fulfill the goals of the community planner. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to use ArcGIS to create simple maps as well as to answer a number of questions of interest to planners. The session serves as an introduction to the use of GIS for planning for practicing planner, planning students, and GIS professionals that want to understand the goals of planning and how they might support those goals.

Level: Beginning

Maximize Your Data from CAD to GIS
Paul Churchill, Seiler Instrument
Streamline workflows and maximize the value of geospatial data seamlessly from CAD to GIS. We will discuss methods for converting, accessing, and moving data between its native format and AutoCAD Map 3D 2010. Knowing the benefits and limitations of each process will help you decide which tools are best for a particular situation. The discussion will include Map Import and Export, FDO (Feature Data Objects) Data Connect, Bulk Copy and links to external databases. Files from a mapping-grade GPS collection project will be brought into AutoCAD Map 3D 2010 to show how it integrates with an existing GIS/CAD system.

Level: Beginning-Intermediate



Classroom Workshops

Free or Open Source GIS: An Overview Demo
C.C. Miller, Purdue University Libraries
Free or Open Source Software for GIS has been gaining increasing momentum in recent years, thanks in no small part to the work of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and its supported projects. Both the power and usability of open source geospatial tools have contributed to (and resulted from, in true open source spirit) this momentum, leaving GIS users and developers (and hobbyists) with many tools from which to choose. Too many, perhaps, for while there is certainly value and convenience in purchasing GIS packages that bundle tools together, there are also drawbacks (price, proprietary lock-ins, lack of sustainability, etc.). This demo will survey the open source GIS landscape and provide at least nominal sketches of major open source tools for GIS, including GUI-based GIS desktop packages, data processing and analysis, and data storage and metadata.

FIndiana GIS Response Corps Committee: Preparing GIS Analysts to Support Emergency Events
Christina McCullough, Indiana National Guard
The Indiana GIS Response Corps Committee's mission is to enhance accessibility to geospatial applications, technologies, and products which assist Emergency Management Practitioners in their decision making process in the event of an emergency. The Committee provides geospatial support to Emergency Management Agencies in the event additional GIS resources are required for emergency related missions across Indiana. This workshop will include the processes and procedures required by the Incident Command System (ICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS) and National Response Plan (NRP). The workshop will also provide resources for consuming emergency related data sets, event modeling and common operating picture examples.

This workshop will provide a clearer understanding as to how GIS analysts can support their community during emergency related events.

What’s In Your GIS?
Jeff Steele, City of Greensburg and Deb Kuehn, City of South Bend
How are cities of different sizes using GIS, especially when it comes to managing infrastructure, such as sewers, water lines and electrical facilities? The purpose of this session is to discuss which GIS platforms cities are using, and how their infrastructure is managed through GIS, whether it is a homegrown system or a standard package such as Cartegraph or City Works. Further discussion topics may also include other uses of GIS in city government. Examples of this would be the tracking of city-owned parcels, event planning, community and economic development applications, crime tracking, police and fire routing, and districting.

Electronic Submittal Requirements for Cities, Towns and Utilities in Hamilton County
The Hamilton County GIS Technical Advisory (HAGTAG) representatives will focus on the policy and practice of implementing and enforcing electronic submittal requirements for construction and As-Built submittals. Each panel member will discuss how they solved the same problem, discuss their ordinances and specifications, policy and procedures, problems/solutions as well as other relevant topics.