[OSGeo-Boston] upcoming free GIS workshops hosted by MIT GIS Services

[Lisa Sweeney]

MIT GIS Services is hosting the following workshop and presentation in January.
You can register for these workshops at:
bit.ly/GIS2-IAP-2011

Getting started with Google Maps API and Google Fusion Tables
-       Thursday, January 20, 12-3 pm, location: 4-231 Users should bring their own laptops
-       speaker: Mano Marks, Google Geo Developer Advocate
The Google Maps API is the most used mapping API in the world, currently on over 350,000 websites around the world. Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management web application making it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Together, they make a powerful mapping platform, allowing people to easily upload data, and publish it on a map. This workshop will provide an introduction to using the Maps API and Fusion Tables, and then provide a hands-on walk through of both the API and Fusion Tables. There will be something for both beginning and advanced developers. Participants should have a basic knowledge of JavaScript.

Virtual Cities of the Future and the Past
-       Monday, January 24, 11 am - 12 pm, Location: 4-231
-       speaker: Paul Cote has been Geographic Information Systems Specialist and lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1993.

Google Earth and Microsoft Bing3D have demonstrated the utility of broad-scale 3d city models as a referencing frame for all sorts of urban information, yet these commercial approaches to city modeling are not so useful as a means of documenting the changing form of the city historically or as a means of bringing together ideas of the future form of cities. This talk will present several projects that exploit city models as a means of sharing ideas about the future and past. We will look briefly at the ways that we can exploit Google Earth as a means of organizing information about the future and past, and then focus on a data model for developing temporally deep metropolitan models as part of a collaborative inter-city information infrastructure.



Cheers,
Lisa


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