Workshop Materials

General Information

Workshop Mailing List:

Google Account:

    • login: iggworkshop2011@gmail.com
    • password: ilovemaps

Submit your questions:

Links:

  • How to request imagery
    • Follow Your World link - sign up to track imagery for your favorite place!
    • "How To" page for managing your Places page (coming soon)
    • Product Ideas page (coming soon) - add ideas like adding water bodies

Workshop Session Data & Links

Open Data Kit / Mobile Data Collection (Wednesday AM)

    • Link to data collected on Wednesday AM: http://odk-tutorial.appspot.com
    • Log in with your Google Account. For the 'CavalloPt_Plant_Inventory' form, you can:
      • View submissions (to view individual submissions in a table
      • Download CSV to export to Excel, etc.
      • Click 'External Service Connection' to view it in Fusion Tables (try this!) -- if you get a 'page not found' error after granting access, it still likely went through to Fusion Tables! -- view Fusion Table by going to http://google.com/fusiontables!
      • Create a KML to view in Google Earth (try this!)

Google Earth Basics (Wednesday PM, Thursday AM)

Storytelling Track Data & Links

Annotating Google Earth

Annotating Google Earth Continued (Thursday AM)

Importing GPS Data (Thursday AM)

    • Choose a GPS track to import:

Importing GIS Data (Thursday AM)

    • To import GIS data, you need Google Earth Pro (download 7-day free trial here)
    • Marin County data for exercise:
      • Trails of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • Soils of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • Geology of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • Wetlands of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • USGS Topo Map for Cavallo Point (download) - source: CalAtlas
    • Other Data:
    • Other software of interest (free download):

Narrated Tours

Where to upload your KMZ files (for use during workshop?

    • File Cabinet of the Google Site we created: click here to go there now! (at the bottom, click on "SIGN IN" to sign in with the iggworkshop2011@gmail.com login in order to see the site we created!)

How to embed your KML or Tour in a website

Breakout Sessions Data & Links

GPS & GIS

    • Slides (download PDF)
    • To import GIS data, you need Google Earth Pro (download 7-day free trial here)
    • Marin County data for exercise:
      • Trails of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • Soils of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • Geology of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • Wetlands of Marin County (download) - source: MarinMap
      • USGS Topo Map for Cavallo Point (download) - source: CalAtlas
      • Marin County Geo Names 2009 (KML file download)

Open Data Kit (ODK)

All Presentations

    • Introductory Workshop Slides, including review of Google Mapping Tools - Download
    • Introduction to Google Earth - Download
    • Introduction to Maps Presentation - Download