New Version of the Shared Adirondack Park GIS CD is underway

The Adirondack Park Agency and Adirondack GIS Users Group are embarking on an update to the Shared Adirondack Park GIS CD and want to make it bigger and better than ever. We would like your help with the following:

Cooperative Academic Cartographic Showcase. We would like to highlight the work of regional university students by providing ArcReader/PDF thematic maps of various datasets on the CD. Students under the direction of academic staff will determine the best scale, layout, color scheme, data layer combination, and other cartographic elements to display the data from the CD. We are willing and interested to offer advice, but we would like this to be a student-driven exercise. All maps created by the students from the various institutions will be featured on the CD. Some ideas for map themes include: wetlands, local zoning, landcover, wildlife, cultural, recreation, census, soils, elevation.
Submit your original datasets with metadata. The Shared GIS CD serves as a repository and a snapshot in time for GIS data from academic research projects that may otherwise go unknown. We would like to include as much spatial Adirondack research data as possible on this version of the CD, both Park-wide and localized GIS data. See the categories on the current CD for ideas (http://www.apa.ny.gov/gis/shared/htmlpages/data.html), or suggest a new category name to add your data to.
Student interns. We need interns to help convert datasets to a multi-platform file type, re-project data, complete metadata, create the GUI on the CD, and more. We have short and long-term projects that students could work on during holiday breaks or for internship credit during the academic year.

Contact John Barge at the Adirondack Park Agency for more details.
jwbarge@gw.dec.state.ny.us
tel: (518) 891-4050

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