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Introduction to WebGIS

Introduction to WebGIS

Instructor: Yoh Kawano

This course explains various Internet technologies commonly used to build web-based visualization applications with municipal data.

52 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
GeoDesign Using CommunityViz: Buildout and Visualization

GeoDesign Using CommunityViz: Buildout and Visualization

Instructor: Chuck Donley

This second course in the "GeoDesign with CommunityViz" series shows how the CommunityViz extension of ArcGIS can guide the design, and assess the impacts, of a project.

130 Mins
SACPLAN CPD
GeoDesign with CommunityViz: Land Use Designer

GeoDesign with CommunityViz: Land Use Designer

Instructor: Chuck Donley

Learn how the CommunityViz extension of ArcGIS can guide the design of a project and assess the project's impact. This course specifically focuses on a suitability analysis using essential functions and the Land Use Designer wizard.

86 Mins
SACPLAN CPD
Geoanalysis with ArcGIS and Google Earth

Geoanalysis with ArcGIS and Google Earth

Instructor: Jessica White

Combining ArcGIS and Google Earth allows for a convenient, powerful way to create and share professional, accurate spatial visualizations of geographical analysis to a wide audience. This course explores how to prep shape files for ingestion into Google Earth, share city data with the public, and aid in pre-visualizing via geo-referencing around potential development sites.

85 Mins
SACPLAN CPD
Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Instructor: Mike Ernst

In this course, you'll learn to create an advanced rendering of a SketchUp site model, using a free third-party renderer called Kerkythea to design realistic lighting and shading. Then add components to your rendering in Adobe Photoshop.

46 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Video for Planners

Video for Planners

Instructor: Tim Halbur

Video can be a highly effective tool for communicating urban planning issues as well as increasing public knowledge and community engagement. This video course will walk you through the three steps of creating a video: capturing the footage, creating the video with editing software, and distributing video across the web. We’ll look at examples of urban planning departments that have used video well, and review different content types that you can use as a model.

25 Mins
SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 3

SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 3

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Combining SketchUp and Adobe Creative Suite, this course demonstrates how to use SketchUp together with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create illustrative and informative photo simulations, perspective views, sections and site plans.

50 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
CommunityViz Introduction

CommunityViz Introduction

Instructor: Doug Walker

In this course you will learn practical applications for CommunityViz, one of the world's premiere GeoDesign and planning scenario tools. Planners, resource managers, local and regional governments, and others use CommunityViz to help them make decisions about development, land use, transportation, conservation and more. 

72 Mins
SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Get started using SketchUp, the popular, easy-to-learn 3D digital modeling program. This course provides an introduction to how planners and architects represent three-dimensional objects in two-dimensions, with step-by-step instructions for creating and using simple 3D models.

39 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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