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GIS for Community Development
The public is invited to a hands-on GIS seminar at the Center for Economic Development, 120 2nd St SE, Jamestown, North Dakota from 9:30am to 3:00pm on October 3, 2007. The South Central Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will host the seminar titled “GIS for Business and Community Development”.
John Nowatzki, NDSU Extension Ag Machinery Systems Specialist, will demonstration Geographic Information Systems (GIS) computer software applications for business and community development. Training will also include how to download available GIS datasets and how download a free and simple-to-use GIS program for use with the GIS data. The seminar includes hands-on learning on how to use the free GIS Program and participants will be able to begin creating a GIS application for their own business or community development project.
GIS offers business people ways to analyze marketing and customer information that can be used in business decisions. With necessary datasets, GIS can provide spatial analysis of s ite selection and location, customer segmentation and profiling.
GIS is also a useful tool in community development when combined with global positioning system (GPS) data to visualize community and government agency regulations such as setback distances and zoned areas. Examples of community development GIS applications include locating potential sites for concentrated livestock facilities and industrial sites.
There are several useful GIS datasets available without cost from the Internet including high resolution aerial photography, roads, political boundaries and business and farm locations. Seminar participants will have opportunities to learn how to download these data sets from the Internet and use them in GIS projects.
There is no cost for the seminar. To register contact Kimberly Murray by phone-voicemail 701-952-8060 ext. 1; email kimmur@csicable.net; or fax 701-952-4930, or contact Lori Sholts at the NDSU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department by telephone 701-231-7261 or email Lori.Sholts@ndsu.edu.
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