Comments for CGIA Community Council

Comment on WebGIS for K12 Budget Request by marcepstein

marcepstein — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 02:22:44 +0000

I have found that most of the California schools on that map really are not participating. Most of the time the account was created by a teacher while attending some sort of conference or workshop and never followed up. Most of the time the school in general does not even know they have an account.

Yes, I have had discussions with a couple of folks of getting members children’s schools to use WebGIS. If anyone is interested in actively promoting, let me know and hopefully I can help.

Comment on WebGIS for K12 Budget Request by millerc

millerc — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 22:02:40 +0000

For those who want to support your child’s school with Esri GIS resources, work with child’s school to take part in the following program: https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/education/schools/schools-mapping-software-bundle

There is a map to see if your school already participates:
https://education.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=c369c6d9bb6d4232bb3ad066cd5b9280

Comment on WebGIS for K12 Budget Request by marcepstein

marcepstein — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:34:53 +0000

The mention of ArcGIS Online is an option to make a message more personal. The fact is for K12 ArcGIS Online is the most applicable for accessing data files and used for classroom lessons. The Public Accounts are free and ESRI provide K12 free organizational accounts when used for classroom instruction. In our trainings we do plan to include Google My Maps and bring in QGIS for the most interested. For students using a GIS software I prefer QGIS over ArcGIS Pro. We did promote the National Geographic Map Maker for upper elementary until they changed the interface, making it less inquiry based and more structured lessons based. I will have to check out QGIS2Web.

Comment on WebGIS for K12 Budget Request by geojochen

geojochen — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:38:33 +0000

I was going to add MangoMap.com and QGIS2Web…

Comment on WebGIS for K12 Budget Request by geojochen

geojochen — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:36:03 +0000

I am all for geospatial education at K-12 and beyond. And I don’t mind extra funds to do this to be allocated by the California legislature. But I object to the mentioning of ArcGIS in points #2 and #3 of the letter template as this is nothing but state-sponsored monopolization of GIS by Esri. There are plenty of other nice web-based products out there that would do the job just as well (Carto, UrbanFootprint)