Tuesday November 12th7:45am: Shuttle Transfer from Wild Palms Hotel to Google Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk 9-9:45am: Welcoming Remarks Speaker: Rebecca Moore Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk This session and the following session will cover: - The Google Earth Outreach program - How organizations have used Google mapping tools to address pressing environmental & social justice issues - What mapping tools & technologies does Google offer? Moderated by Raleigh Seamster Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk
Presenter: Allison Lieber Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk 12:30-1:30pm Lunch Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk In this session, you will learn how to use Google Maps Engine: you'll upload and style your GIS data, and publish your maps to Google Earth and Maps. Break Presenters: David Thau & Tyler Erickson Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk Earth Engine is Google's geo data analysis platform. This session introduces the platform and the tools available for browsing Earth Engine's data catalog and performing analyses on the data. Break Moderated by Raleigh Seamster Location: Grand Teton Tech Talk A lineup of Google Earth Outreach partner organizations will share best practices and success stories in the use of Google mapping tools for collaboration, transparency, and easy access to & sharing of data. Outside Building GWC5 8pm: Shuttle transfer to Wild Palms Hotel Wednesday November 13th7:45am: Shuttle Transfer from Wild Palms Hotel to Google Location: Beacon Rock 9-9:30am: Everyone is a Cartographer Presenter: Louis Perrochon Location: Beacon Rock 9:30-11am: Hands-on Plenary: Tour Builder Presenter: Sean Askay Location: Beacon Rock In this session, you'll learn how to use a new tool for storytelling with Google Earth. Break
Publishing your Maps and Data Presenters: Brian Sullivan & Christiaan Adams Location: Beacon Rock This session will take a deep dive into data and maps publication. In the first part, you'll learn about different ways to publish your Google Maps Engine maps and data including to mobile devices. In the second part, you'll learn how to use Google Crisis Map viewer to mash-up, publish, and share maps by combining layers from anywhere on the web. Supported layer formats include KML, GeoRSS, WMS, Tile URLs, Google Maps Engine, and Fusion Tables. Google Maps API for Developers Presenter: Josh Livni Location: Birch Bay A little bit of customization can go a long way with the Google Maps API's. This session will introduce you to some of the visualizations that are possible with the Google Maps API, and how to interact with data and maps that are available in Google Maps Engine. Prerequisites: Some Javascript knowledge is recommended. Alternatively, bring a willingness to learn something new. Mobile Data Collection on Android Presenter: Tanya Birch Location: Columbia Hills Open Data Kit is a set of tools that allows you to collect field data, such as text, photos/videos, and GPS location from an Android device where there's no internet connection and then publish that data to the web when you're back online. Once you've gathered your field data, we will upload the data to the cloud. Then you'll learn how to map your data in Google Maps Engine, and export your data into Google Fusion Tables for graphing, mapping and visualization. ***NDA required Google Earth Basics Presenter: Raleigh Seamster Location: Peach Arch This session is designed for participants who are new to Google Earth or want a review of the fundamentals. We'll start with a quick crash-course on using Google Earth, a 3D virtual globe: navigation tricks, searching and more. Then we’ll dive into how to create all the basic feature types: point, lines polygons, and image overlays. We'll also practice adding already-created maps, as well as using 3D fly throughs to create animated tours. We’ll finish up with how to save your newly created maps as KML/KMZ files and how to share and/or put them on the web. 1-2pm: Lunch Location: Outside Beacon Rock Note: Google Maps API office hours with Josh Livni will be held in Birch Bay during lunch hour. 2-3:45pm: Breakout Sessions (choose one)
Advanced Topics in Google Maps Engine Presenters: Karin Tuxen-Bettman & Brian Sullivan Location: Beacon Rock This session covers a broad overview of numerous GME topics including: 1) Advanced techniques for displaying your data in GME, 2) QGIS and ESRI ArcGIS toolbars, 3) Importing terrain files for 3d visualizing in Google Earth (especially useful for Ocean bathymetry) and 4) Portable and offline options for taking GME raster layers on laptops, mobile devices or in Maps API when there is no internet! Prerequisites: You should feel comfortable with everything we did in Tuesday's Google Maps Engine plenary and/or feel comfortable with the basics of GIS. ***NDA Required for Offline / portable at end of session Earth Engine API Presenters: David Thau Location: Birch Bay The Earth Engine API (application programming interface) provides the ability to create your own algorithms to process raster and vector imagery. This session is geared toward developers who would like to analyze satellite and vector data, and possibly build their own applications which use Earth Engine. Prerequisites: You should have experience with at least one programming language, or at least not be afraid of learning as we go. ***NDA Required Google Fusion Tables Presenter: Vanessa Schneider Location: Columbia Hills Looking to tell a visual story with your data? During this session, we’ll teach you how to get started with Fusion Tables, a tool to help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines. The hour will start with a brief overview of Fusion Tables, then we’ll dive into some hands-on examples to get you familiar with how easily your data can be turned into a visualization with impact. Specific topics may include: - How to map and style tabular datasets (like spreadsheets) with Fusion Tables. - Create a custom intensity map. - Import and merge GIS data with Fusion Tables. - Customize your Fusion Tables map with the Fusion Tables Wizard Prerequisites: No special skills required, but you must have a Google account to access Fusion Tables to participate hands-on. Note: Most Google Apps for Business accounts do not have access to Fusion Tables so you may need to use or create a personal account. To check with you can create a Fusion Table, sign in with your Google account and go to docs.google.com. Click the “Create” button, then “More” - you should see Fusion Tables as an option. KML Coding for Beginners Presenter: Sean Askay Location: Peace Arch This session is for those who are new to KML. We will look through the basic structure of KML, how to code common features such as points, lines, polygons and overlays, and a few more advanced features such as time. We will provide tips for writing KML by hand and testing KML in Google Earth and Google Maps. Prerequisites: For this session, you will be expected to have some familiarity with Google Earth, including creation of your own data points or layers using the tools built into Google Earth. A little experience with XML or HTML will be helpful, but is not strictly required. Break 4-5:45pm: Breakout Sessions (choose one)
Your First Google Maps API Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Location: Beacon Rock Take "baby steps" into the Maps API world. In this session, you'll created a "Hello World" Maps API webpage, and learn how to change the options (background map time, initial location, etc.). While this is taught for non-programmers by a non-programmer, we will work with snippets of code copied-and-pasted from the developers.google.com website. Prerequisites: Comfort opening an HTML page, but no prior JavaScript coding necessary. Advanced Topics in Earth Engine Presenters: David Thau & Tyler Erickson Location: Birch Bay Earth Engine supports many advanced features, such as classifying using a Fusion Table, classifying using pre-classified rasters, and applying arbitrary mathematical equations to input imagery. Learn more about these features, as well as details on how to download data from and upload data to Earth Engine. Google Map Maker Presenter: Jessica Pfund Location: Columbia Hills Have you ever noticed a place in Google Maps where the roads are incorrect or missing altogether? Do you want to make sure the places you know and love are fully and correctly represented on Google Maps and Google Earth? If so, you'll want to learn to use Google Map Maker to help edit the maps seen by millions of users around the world. In this session, you will learn the basics of Google Map Maker, from adding roads, trails, and points of interest such as businesses in your town, to updating the details for existing places and features in your community. You will learn how the moderation system works to review and approve edits, and how to see what your peers are editing in specific places around the globe. Advanced KML Coding Presenter: Sean Askay Location: Peace Arch In this session, participants will dig into advanced KML topics, including 3D visualization techniques and KML Touring. We will explore programming tools for generating KML from large datasets or directly from a database. We will also review the limits on KML use in Google Maps. Prerequisites: For this session, participants should have a strong understanding of KML and HTML. Experience with python or other scripting languages is encourages, but not required. 5:45pm: Shuttle transfer to Google Tour 6-6:45pm: Google Campus Tour 6:45-8pm: Dinner at Google Cafe 8pm: Shuttle transfer to Wild Palms Hotel Thursday November 14th7:45am: Shuttle Transfer from Wild Palms Hotel to Google Location: Beacon Rock 9-9:30am: Sharing your message through photos on Google Maps and Street View Presenter: Evan Rapoport Location: Beacon Rock Presenters: Randy Sargent & Yen-Chia Hsu Location: Beacon Rock Timelapse Earth builds on Earth Engine to show three decades of planetary change, both man-made and natural. In this session, you'll see hotspots of Earth change, learn how to embed Timelapse Earth into HTML materials, and also learn how to author guided tours to highlight particular phenomena on the animated planet. Break
Imagery Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Location: Beacon Rock In this session, you'll learn what your options are for requesting improved satellite imagery, and contributing Street View imagery, for the areas in which you work. Learn how to search for and request satellite imagery from GeoEye/Digital Globe satellites, and then learn how to collect PhotoSpheres and contribute them to Street View. ***NDA no longer required Publishing your Maps and Data Presenters: Brian Sullivan & Christiaan Adams Location: Birch Bay This session will take a deep dive into data and maps publication. In the first part, you'll learn about different ways to publish your Google Maps Engine maps and data including to mobile devices. In the second part, you'll learn how to use Google Crisis Map viewer to mash-up, publish, and share maps by combining layers from anywhere on the web. Supported layer formats include KML, GeoRSS, WMS, Tile URLs, Google Maps Engine, and Fusion Tables. Earth Engine API Presenters: David Thau & Tyler Erickson Location: Columbia Hills The Earth Engine API (application programming interface) provides the ability to create your own algorithms to process raster and vector imagery. This session is geared toward developers who would like to analyze satellite and vector data, and possibly build their own applications which use Earth Engine. Prerequisites: You should have experience with at least one programming language, or at least not be afraid of learning as we go. ***NDA Required Google Earth Basics Presenter: Raleigh Seamster Location: Daroga This session is designed for participants who are new to Google Earth or want a review of the fundamentals. We'll start with a quick crash-course on using Google Earth, a 3D virtual globe: navigation tricks, searching and more. Then we’ll dive into how to create all the basic feature types: point, lines polygons, and image overlays. We'll also practice adding already-created maps, as well as using 3D fly throughs to create animated tours. We’ll finish up with how to save your newly created maps as KML/KMZ files and how to share and/or put them on the web. 12:30pm: Group Photo Outside GWC5 12:45-2pm: Lunch & Lightning Round Presentations Over lunch, each participant will have the opportunity to present their mapping work to the rest of the Summit attendees and Googlers in a 2-minute "lightning-round style" format.
2:15-4pm: Breakout Sessions (choose one)
Mobile Data Collection on Android Presenter: Tanya Birch Location: Columbia Hills Open Data Kit is a set of tools that allows you to collect field data, such as text, photos/videos, and GPS location from an Android device where there's no internet connection and then publish that data to the web when you're back online. Once you've gathered your field data, we will upload the data to the cloud. Then you'll learn how to map your data in Google Maps Engine, and export your data into Google Fusion Tables for graphing, mapping and visualization. ***NDA required GIS & GPS in Google Earth Presenter: Christiaan Adams Location: Birch Bay In this session you will learn how to import GIS and GPS data into Google Earth. It's very easy to import GPS data from most GPS units into the free version of Google Earth. We will look at some of the fun ways to visualize GPS tracks. For the more advanced users who have access to Google Earth Pro, we will also look at the available GIS data import tools available in Pro, discuss formats and other considerations for importing data, and quickly discuss some of the alternative tools. Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with Google Earth, especially working with content in the Places panel. Your First Google Maps API Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Location: Columbia Hills Take "baby steps" into the Maps API world. In this session, you'll created a "Hello World" Maps API webpage, and learn how to change the options (background map time, initial location, etc.). While this is taught for non-programmers by a non-programmer, we will work with snippets of code copied-and-pasted from the developers.google.com website. Prerequisites: Comfort opening an HTML page, but no prior JavaScript coding necessary. Break 4:15-6pm: Breakout Sessions (choose one)
Imagery Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Location: Beacon Rock In this session, you'll learn what your options are for requesting improved satellite imagery, and contributing Street View imagery, for the areas in which you work. Learn how to search for and request satellite imagery from GeoEye/Digital Globe satellites, and then learn how to collect PhotoSpheres and contribute them to Street View. ***NDA no longer required Google Fusion Tables Presenter: Vanessa Schneider Location: Birch Bay Looking to tell a visual story with your data? During this session, we’ll teach you how to get started with Fusion Tables, a tool to help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines. The hour will start with a brief overview of Fusion Tables, then we’ll dive into some hands-on examples to get you familiar with how easily your data can be turned into a visualisation with impact. Specific topics may include: - How to map and style tabular datasets (like spreadsheets) with Fusion Tables. - Create a custom intensity map. - Import and merge GIS data with Fusion Tables. - Customize your Fusion Tables map with the Fusion Tables Wizard Prerequisites: No special skills required, but you must have a Google account to access Fusion Tables to participate hands-on. Note: Most Google Apps for Business accounts do not have access to Fusion Tables so you may need to use or create a personal account. To check with you can create a Fusion Table, sign in with your Google account and go to docs.google.com. Click the “Create” button, then “More” - you should see Fusion Tables as an option. Advanced Topics in Earth Engine Presenters: David Thau & Tyler Erickson Location: Columbia Hills Earth Engine supports many advanced features, such as classifying using a Fusion Table, classifying using pre-classified rasters, and applying arbitrary mathematical equations to input imagery. Learn more about these features, as well as details on how to download data from and upload data to Earth Engine. KML Coding for Beginners Presenter: Sean Askay Location: Peace Arch This session is for those who are new to KML. We will look through the basic structure of KML, how to code common features such as points, lines, polygons and overlays, and a few more advanced features such as time. We will provide tips for writing KML by hand and testing KML in Google Earth and Google Maps. Prerequisites: For this session, you will be expected to have some familiarity with Google Earth, including creation of your own data points or layers using the tools built into Google Earth. A little experience with XML or HTML will be helpful, but is not strictly required. 6-6:30pm: Special guest presentation by Professor Matthew Hansen, University of Maryland 6:30-7:45pm: Dinner Outside Beacon Rock 7:45pm: Shuttle transfer to Wild Palms Hotel Friday November 15th7:45am: Shuttle Transfer from Wild Palms Hotel to Google Location: Beacon Rock Location: Beacon Rock 9:45-10am: Resources Presenter: Raleigh Seamster Location: Beacon Rock 10-1pm: Geo for Good Unconference Participants will suggest and lead their own sessions based on popular interest (topics could include applications of Google Maps & Earth for wildlife trafficking, forest monitoring, cultural mapping, etc.). Read more about unconference format here. See whiteboard in common area outside Beacon Rock to view or suggest sessions. 1pm: Grab n’ Go Lunches served
Location: Outside Beacon Rock 1-2:30pm: Geo for Good Office Hours Googlers who work on Google mapping tools will be available for 1:1 questions and support. Office hours available will likely include the following areas of expertise:
2:30-3pm: Closing Remarks Presenter: Rebecca Moore Location: Beacon Rock |