Agenda

The Indigenous Mapping Network - Google Tribal Geo Tech Workshop will be held on February 25-26, 2010, at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA, US.

Thursday, February 25

Shuttle pick-ups from Wild Palms Hotel to Google: 8:00am, 8:30am

(We recommend taking the 8:00am shuttle if you arrive at the workshop on time!)

8:30am - 9:00am -- Registration & Breakfast (provided free to participants)

9:00am - 9:30am -- Opening blessing, by Ann Marie Sayers - Tribal Chairman, Indian Canyon Nation of Ohlone People

9:30am - 10:00am -- Introduction to workshop

Review existing technologies
Showcase of great examples

Security and Confidentiality of your projects and data

10:00am - 12:00pm -- Introduction to Mobile Data Collection

Become familiar with mobile handset
Field exercise: we will go outside and learn to use smart phones for collecting map data.
Visualizing the data you collected: back in computer

12:00pm - 1:30pm -- Lunch, provided free to participants

1:30pm - 4:00pm -- Break into two parallel tracks (more information provided in workshop

Community Track: focus on creating maps with rich content about your indigenous community
Exercises and topics include:
- Creating maps with MyMaps: we will collaborate to build a map that includes photographs, videos, and stories.
- Embedding on blog or Sites page: we will put your map on a website, so you can share it with the world.
- Converting to Google Maps and Earth, from other formats
- Security and confidentiality of data

GIS and Technical Track: focus on using and converting GIS data in your maps
- Exercises and topics include:
  - Brief Introduction to Google Maps & Earth
  - Introduction to data formats
    - Converting from other formats, third-party tools
      - Technical details of GPS in Google Earth
      - Importing using GIS tools, including ArcGIS
      - Google Earth Pro
      - Security and confidentiality of data

4:00pm - 5:00pm -- Open work time, discussion, Question & Answer (everyone back together)

5:00pm - 6:00pm -- Tour of Google campus

6:00pm - 7:30pm -- Dinner, provided free to participants

Shuttle pick-ups from Google to Wild Palms Hotel: 7:15pm, 7:45pm

Friday, February 26

Shuttle pick-ups from Wild Palms Hotel to Google: 8:00am, 8:30am

(We recommend taking the 8:00am shuttle if you arrive at the workshop on time!)

8:30am - 9:00am -- Breakfast, provided free to participants

9:00am - 9:30am -- Review of Day 1

9:30am - 12:00pm -- Break into three parallel tracks (more information provided in workshop

Community & Earth Track: focus on creating maps with rich content about your indigenous community
- Exercises and topics include:
Programming Track: focus on code and programming languages for building very customized maps
- GIS Track: A deeper look at the tools available for data conversion and manipulation
  - Exercises and topics include:
    - Google Earth Pro
    - Google Earth Enterprise
    - A deeper look at 3rd party tools

12:00pm - 1:30pm -- Lunch, provided free to participants

1:30pm - 3:30pm -- Open work time, discussion, Q & A, etc.

3:30pm - 4:00pm -- Google Map Maker for adding your data to Google's base map

4:00pm - 4:30pm -- Wrap-up & Conclusion

Shuttle pick-ups from Google to Wild Palms Hotel: 4:30pm, 5:00pm

If you need a taxi to the airport from the Google campus on Friday evening, you can reach Yellow Checker Cab at 650-328-3322. (For other taxis, search here.)

Dinner is on your own.

* There will be two tracks the first day, and three the second day for more targeted training: a Community Track, a GIS Track, and a Programming Track.

Community Track: for participants who specialize in building content for mapping indigenous communities.
GIS Track: for participants who use GIS data and/or GIS tools to create their own data.
Programming Track: for participants who specialize in programming and developing customized website applications.

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