Session 1: Introduction - Digital Maps & Your Community (2 hrs)
Date: April 15, 2010
Loc: Alexandria Technical College – Rm 208
Time: 9am to 11am
Agenda:
- What are digital
maps?
- What
information
they contain
- What
information
they don't contain
- How
does all that
information get there?
- What
role do you
play?
- What role
can you
play?
- Introduction
of
team project
- Basecamp training
(collaborative project management
website)
Homework
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Session 2: Interacting with Digital Maps
(3 hrs)
Date: April 22, 2010
Location: Alexandria Technical College – Rm 405
Time: 9am to 12pm
Agenda:
- Discussion about take-aways from Session 1 and the team project
- How can we use the information we gathered to enhance the information found in digital maps?
- What does it mean to have a complete set of information about a point of interest (POI)?
- What do major mapping companies look for in allowing a POI to be represented in their database?
- Presentation by NAVTEQ on how to interact with NAVTEQ maps
- Form into point of interest (POI) collection teams
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Session 3: Using Digital Maps for Your Community
(3 hrs)
Date: April 29, 2010
Location: Alexandria Technical College – Rm 405
Time: 9am to 12pm
Agenda:
- Update on team projects
- How many points of interest have you collected?
- How many points of interest have you not collected? Do you know how many are out there?
- What issues have you encountered?
- How are other communities using digital maps?
- How can your community use digital maps?
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Session 4: Community Commencement
(3 hrs)
Date: May 6, 2010
Location: Alexandria Technical College – Rm 211
Time: 9am to 12pm
Agenda:
- Team presentations
- How is this technology changing?
- What's the future of this technology?
- Maintaining and updating what you have done
- Taking it outside your community.
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Team Project:
In addition to the training sessions, participants will work on a team project that puts new skills into action. Teams will gather information about points of interest in their community and make the needed changes to those POIs on digital map sites. There will be special emphasis on the NAVTEQ database, but several other mapping databases will also be discussed in the trainings. Upon completion of the project, teams will have:
- Gathered and updated information about points of interest in their community
- Updated incorrect points of interest in their community
- Developed a database of points of interest in their community
- Determined the limitations of digital map technology in their community
- Created a plan to keep digital information about their community current and compelling
Participants are expected to:
- Attend four training sessions
- Gather information about points of interest in their community and document them using the tools and methods provided
- Complete a team project to gather points of interest in your community
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