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Todd Kingman (APAN)

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  • Where would a good place be to start learning about GIS and how it works for a novice?
  • in reply to James Quillen

    If you have access to SIPRNet, I can point you to tools my Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has for classified use. Our GEOINT Services office provides Google Earth, ArcGIS Earth, and ArcGIS.com-ish services. Send me a note at roy.a.rathbun@nga.smil.mil.

    Also, check out our Protected Internet eXchange (PiX), at www.pixtoday.net; you should recieve an invitation to join. On the left side panel there is an app called GeoPiX Beta that allows you to simply annotate points with labels on a map. There will be more functionality in the future. And, if you're lazy, check out the RFI button a little higher on the left.  You provide the data, and someone else can make you a map.  Again, unclassifed, but access controlled. You can also invite your friends and mission partners to PiX, foreign included. Do you have friends?

    Had enough yet?

  • in reply to Roy Rathbun
    The GEOINT Services provides a Portal on all three security domains. Roy has a good idea here to use the Portal for your use case you describe. 2D or 3D with a fairly easy to use work flow. I build most of my maps with Excel and either a) drag the .csv into ArcGIS or b) use ArcGIS Maps for Office which provides a better result than the Excel map to build web maps and apps. You can print these or ArcGIS Maps for Office also mates up with PowerPoint for static or "live" maps. "Live" meaning you can pan, zoom in and out, etc. in your PowerPoint slide show.
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  • in reply to Roy Rathbun
    The GEOINT Services provides a Portal on all three security domains. Roy has a good idea here to use the Portal for your use case you describe. 2D or 3D with a fairly easy to use work flow. I build most of my maps with Excel and either a) drag the .csv into ArcGIS or b) use ArcGIS Maps for Office which provides a better result than the Excel map to build web maps and apps. You can print these or ArcGIS Maps for Office also mates up with PowerPoint for static or "live" maps. "Live" meaning you can pan, zoom in and out, etc. in your PowerPoint slide show.
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