This one-hour hands-on webinar will introduce planners to Google SketchUp. Topics will include importing your place, downloading models, arrangingbuildings, walking through the project and exporting the results to Google Earth. This webinar will help you explore using SketchUp for urban design level planning.

 

This one-hour hands-on webinar will introduce you to Google Earth. The session will explore basic tasks for using Google Earth in planning. Topics will include finding places, moving around them, saving a location, viewing a site photo and capturing images for presentation. The subject matter is a compelling exploration of Washington DC with a discussion of the tool’s applicability to planning.

 

TECH-230: The Virtual Staff Report--Using the Free Version of Google Earth

This one-hour hands-on webinar will guide you through the process of preparing a Google Earth presentation for a Planning Commission meeting. Topics will include locating site photographs, georeferencing a site plan, creating a project tour and preparing for your presentation.

 

 

TECH-330: The Virtual Staff Report--Advanced Google Earth for Planners

This one-hour hands-on webinar will guide you through the process of using Google Earth Pro for planning analysis. Topics will include applying a GIS shape file to the terrain, coloring the legend for that layer, locating address points automatically, creating buildings, and thinking like a movie director.