Computer Cartography / GIS Laboratory

GGS Room 321

This lab consists of 23 Dell Optiplex GX270s (P4,3 GHZ 1GB RAM ) with 17" flat panel monitors.

Available peripherals include 6 Calcomp digitizing tablets, an HP 5300c scanner with Photoshop Elements on the connecting computer and a networked HP inkjet 2500c and HP 2300dn, a black & white duplex laser printer. The computers are also equipped with DVD/CD-RW drives and the Roxio Easy CD Creator software.

In the ceiling is mounted a 3M LCD projector.

Installed software includes GIS and cartographic software as well as the network utilities.

The lab room is set up for projection of computer screens, overhead transparencies or slides, and may be reserved for presentations.

This lab was funded with Student Technology Fees.

Software	Utilities
Adobe Acrobat 5 Pro	Adobe Reader 7
Arc GIS 9 + Tutorials+digitizer	Flash Player 7
ArcView 3.3 + extensions	Firefox 1.0.2
DNR Garmin	GTCO calcomp digitizer, Drawing Board III
Leica GeosystemsGIS (Imagine 8.7)	Java 2
*Esri Arc Explorer 2	Power Archiver 2002
Idrisi Kilimanjaro14.02	Quicktime + Itunes 6.5.2
*Map Publisher 4	Real Player 10.5
*Map Viewer 6	Roxio Easy CD Creator
MS Office XP – Word, Powerpoint, Excel	Shockwave Player 10
*Macromedia Flash MX 2004	Spybot 1.3 + tea timer
*Macromedia Freehand 9
SPSS 12.0
Surfer 8
*TransCAD 4.5 – needs hardware key
*WP12

*Software that is not installed as a standard item on all lab computers.

Computers attached to Calcomp digitizers are 1st row: Goode, Flannery, Albers; 2nd row: Lambert, Jenks (digitizer to left of computer);3rd row: Mollweide, Mercator;4th row: Tissot (large digitizer),Snyder,Snow (digitizer to left of computer),issac-newton

Lab 321 is accessible to undergraduate and graduate geography majors in the department and to students in geography classes which currently use the room for instruction.

For more information, contact Kate Blane , Geography Computer Lab and Network Manager.