Geek out at GIS Day

This sounds cool. Press release:

ASHEVILLE – Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and UNC Asheville will host GIS Day 2008 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Nov. 14 on the first floor of the Balsam Building on A-B Tech’s Asheville campus.

The open house celebrates Geographic Information Systems activities in the Asheville area. Local GIS users and vendors will demonstrate how GIS is used in the community every day through navigation systems in cars and in GPS tracking devices in cell phones. Events include lectures, software demonstrations, map galleries, and activities.

“GIS Day is an international event in its 10th year. A-B Tech is very excited to partner with UNC Asheville in hosting this GIS event. Just as most jobs require computer knowledge, in the future, knowledge of GIS technology will be a required skill for most positions,” said Pamela Silvers, A-B Tech’s Business Computers Technologies chair.

The event will include demonstrations of the County and City GIS web sites as well as sessions from local, state and federal agencies and private companies.

“Since first getting involved with GIS in 1995, I have seen tremendous growth in the usage of this powerful technology,” said Pete Kennedy, GIS instructor at A-B Tech. “From a start in specialized areas such as resource management and planning, GIS has now grown to be an information technology whose usage includes such diverse areas as real estate, social sciences and emergency response services to name a few.”

For more information, contact Pete Kennedy at 254-1921, Ext. 289 or pkennedy@abtech.edu or Pamela Silvers at 254-1921, Ext. 249 or psilvers@abtech.edu.