The speakers at this GIS Seminar will be presenting a series of proven methods allowing you to put your information on a Google Earthmap thus making the information accessible to you and your associates.
The speakers will be presenting various ways existing GIS applications can benefit Land Surveyors.
The speakers will bring you up to speed on the work that GIS Professionals can do and what legally must be done by a Licensed Land Surveyor
The speakers we have put together for this GIS Seminar are experts in this field and will bring you up to speed on the latest applications to use at work to help you in your Land Surveying work.
This is an all day Seminar with lunch provided. Please take advantage of the early registration fee for this Seminar. Remember space is limited to 75 attendees.
Thank you and looking forward to seeing you there.
The Santa Clara – San Mateo Chapter of CLSA
Please call me if you have any questions or need additional information.
Thank you for helping us.
John Koroyan, PLS
BKF Engineers
T 408-467-9136
A PDF of our flyer is available from the CLSA Website: http://californiasurveyors.org/PDFs/...SMWorkshop.pdf
Santa Clara - San Mateo Chapter of CLSA on Friday, November 2, 2012
at Beverly Heritage Hotel at 1820 Barber Lane, Milpitas 37°24’02”N 121°51’41”W
Creating a low budget GIS Project as a Tool, and
Integrating GIS into your Land Surveying Business
We are presenting another seminar to fund our scholarship program and to help our friends and associates in facing the challenges of today’s Professional Land Surveyor.
The Surveying community is generally familiar with the sometimes clumsy, but often useful, GIS applications which help us find maps and other data we need using the Internet. The investment to develop or assemble the expertise, and then to enter the data for a large program such as the counties provide, is prohibitive for smaller teams with limited funding…..but there are methods by which a small team, or even an individual can put GIS to work. GIS can be ignored, but only at the risk of abandoning a readily achieved competitive edge. In addition there is a serious risk of allowing the Land Surveyor’s reluctance to participate in this new technology to trigger changes in the laws to allow GIS Professionals to bypass the controls that Land Surveyors should exert over some GIS data.
The speakers at this GIS Seminar will be presenting a series of proven methods allowing you to put your information on a Google Earth map thus making the information accessible to you and your associates.
The speakers will be presenting various ways existing GIS applications can benefit Land Surveyors.
The speakers will bring you up to speed on the work that GIS Professionals can do and what legally must be done by a Licensed Land Surveyor
Schedule for 7.5 Learning Hours:
? Registration 8:00-8:30
? Bruce Joffe 8:30-9:30
? Landon Blake 9:30-11:30
? Lunch 11:30-12:30
? Bill Clark 12:30-2:00
? David Granger 2:00-4:00
? Q & A/Discussion 4:00-5:00
We have commitments from the following speakers:
Bill Clark ([email protected] & www EarthPoint.us) has several applications he will present:
? Lat, Lon or State Plane, or UTM, or MGRS, or PLSS coordinates, choice of Icon, Color, and Text from spreadsheet is converted to “.kml” format for display using Google Earth, either free with limited capability or greater capacity for a nominal cost.
? Public Lands township and range grid is shown on Google Earth.
? Utility to calculate the area of a polygon drawn on Google Earth
? UTM, MGRS, Lat/Long grids on Google Earth
? Ability to map shape files onto Google Earth is under development
Bruce Joffe/GIS Consultants: webpage: http://www.joffes.com/GIS/GISChome.html
? Information regarding the laws applicable to the GIS professional & professional Land Surveyor, regarding work that can be done by the GIS professional and work that will require a licensed Land Surveyor.
? Discussion on LS Act Section 8726 and how multiple professionals are performing similar work
? Laws and regulations that other professionals may like to see fall from the purview of the licensed Land Surveyor
Landon Blake ([email protected] http://redefinedhorizons.com/) of Redefined Horizons will:
? demonstrate OpenJump, a simple open source desktop GIS that he and some friends developed.
? present an overview of GIS, its key concepts, and its relationship to surveying
? discuss how Land Surveyors can best react to the changes to the economy and to our profession that GIS is bringing.
? presentation on: http://www.openjump.org/
And…..
David Granger, BLM will present the GCDB:
? The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) is a collection of geographic information representing the United States Public Land Survey System (PLSS) and other official surveys. The GCDB data is computed from BLM’s official survey records including Cadastral survey plats and field notes supplemented with local survey records and geodetic control information.
? Available data includes the locations of all township, section, aliquot part, government lot and special survey corners in a township, and horizontal control positions from published sources and GPS observations to tie the survey framework to the earth,
? The GCDB uses the least squares method of adjustment to determine the best geographic positions for all of the survey points in the dataset,
? Official land descriptions are assigned to every land unit depicted in the GCDB,
? The resulting framework is translated into GIS formats for use with spatial applications for use independently or imported into ArcGIS and AutoCAD.
Please contact Mr. Andrew Chafer for detailed information on how to pay with credit card; [email protected] )
Mail copy of the PDF form with check for $150.00
(Make check payable to “SC-SM Chapter CLSA” to:
John Koroyan, Treasurer
SC-SM Chapter CLSA
c/o BKF Engineers
1650 Technology Drive, Suite 650
San Jose, CA 95110
Tel (408) 467-9136
Brad Luken, LS
(AZ, CA, NV & OR)
Remember how us COGO surveyors jumped on the Autocad band wagon
to exchange CAD files.
We HP programmable calculator users jumped on the PC band wagon.
Compared to those markets, loading your coordinates and lines into
Google Map is huge. There are zillions of Google Map users compared
to architects, engineers, and surveyors who interact with Autocad or
dxf files.
The interchange between COGO and Google map is easy. Just export your
x,y,description format to Excel and then read the points into Google.
Having aerial photography backdrops like Google Maps gets you a heck
of a marketing advantage to a huge computer community that can run
a no-cost graphics package like Google Map.
County and city planning departments are asking for dxf and shape files.
Will kml become the standard interchange format? It remains to be seen.
I think just a nice addition.
I wish I could get to Milpitas!!