Overview

The Introduction to Mapper Workstation Course is a five day course designed to apply basic mapping techniques with the power of the Smart Data Strategies' Mapper Workstation software application. Mapper Workstation is designed around the ESRI Coverage/Librarian data format. The course will cover all aspects of Mapper Workstation. The class will be instructed by focusing on editing the Coverage parcel data model as a whole and how a variety of GIS elements play a role in that data models. The class will discuss basic editing techniques and be instructed in hands-on labs working with the GIS elements that comprise the general Coverage parcel data model. The primary goal will be to demonstrate and use GIS techniques in order to maintain an efficient and accurate Coverage parcel data model.

Goals

• To learn the basic tools and techniques available to the student through Mapper Desktop
• To gain a basic understanding of how to maintain the Coverage parcel data model with the tools provided in Mapper Workstation by editing the elements that make up the Coverage parcel data model.
• Working with the Mapper Workstation Librarian/Indexing for a Coverage area
• To Perform Parcel Splits/Joins
• To Attribute Multiple Ownership to Parcels
• To Perform COGO routines
• To Import Data from other digital formats
• To Digitize in Mapper

Requirements/Prerequisites

• Mapper Workstation is designed for the ESRI Coverage model only (not Geodatabase format)