1. DAVID SHARP GIS LIBRARIAN CARLETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DAVID_SHARP@CARLETON.CA GPS for GIS: Going Mobile

2. Global Positioning System Geographic Information System GPS and GIS

3. What to do with a GPS Unit Activities Orienteering and Geo-Caching Navigation Field Collection of Data

4. Geospatial Data Collection at Carleton

5. - Traffic Lights - Safety Phones - Recycling Containers - Garbage Cans - Benches - Picnic Tables - Smoking Areas - Bike Racks - Trail Heads - Tree Species - Handicap Parking - Homeless Shelters - Statutes/Sculptures – War Memorials, - Kids Wading Pools and Spray Pads But more & more requests for unique data points...

6. GPS Units, Accurary and Pricing GPS UnitAccuracyPriceImage IPhone15-30> feet$350 (?) Garmin ETrex Legend 5-<30 feet$300 Magellan Mobile Mapper 1.6-<10 feet$4500 High-End Trimble3/8 Inch$80,000

7. GPS Screenshots

8. Types of GPS Data: Tracks and Waypoints

9. And Routes

10. DEMO Downloading GPS Data into a GIS

11. Select GIS and GPS Applications ESRI ArcExplorer (Free) ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 ($) Google Earth (Free) Google Earth Pro ($) GPS Visualizer (Free) DNR Garmin (Free)

12. Accuracy and Metadata

13. Metadata (Continued)

14. North American Profile

15. Borrowing Agreement

16. Conclusion A GPS unit is an economical way for libraries to collect data or lend to students to collect data Can offer data of teaching or classroom quality Lower end units cannot support research quality I have questions about libraries role to act as a repository of crowd sourced data. I have a question about whether it is a Librarians role to proactively create geospatial data It does provide access to a useful mobile technology that will support the universities teaching mission