GIS Education

Pierce County promotes GIS education by offering training courses, participating in GIS Day activities, and providing links to other regional resources.

We hold quarterly lead user meetings to discuss GIS news, projects, updates, and training opportunities within the GIS group and within each department/division in attendance. These meetings often include informative presentations and demonstrations of new applications, tools, and concepts. Representatives in a GIS leadership role within a user group are typically in attendance and contribute to discussions.

Training Courses

Pierce County GIS provides training to County staff, CountyView application subscribers, and other jurisdictions. Please contact Greg Lang (253-798-4057, glang@co.pierce.wa.us) to register for one of the following courses:

Introduction to CountyView Web
Participants of this half-day course will learn basic GIS skills and CountyView Web functionality. Topics and hands-on exercises include data display and query, feature location, report generation, and map production. This course is required to access the CountyView Web application.

ESRI ArcGIS/CountyView Pro Training
CountyView Pro is a customized version of ESRI's ArcGIS application. This 3-day intermediate/advanced GIS class is workbook and lecture based covering a range of functionality available in ArcGIS Desktop software and its essential tools for visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data to produce quality results. In addition the class covers functionality specific to CountyView Pro and is required for access to the CountyView Pro application.

Introduction to GPS Mapping
This is a one-day introductory course on the basic principles of Geographic Positioning Systems (GPS) and its relationship to mapping applications. The day starts with classroom instruction, followed by a field exercise, and then data handling and viewing back in the classroom. GPS equipment (Trimble GeoExplorer XH or ProXR receiver and Pathfinder software) can be provided upon request.

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