GPS to GIS: Using DNR Garmin to Cable GPS Locations of Field Data to GIS Project: Hardware Focus

This series of videos describes how to use GPS and GIS in educational instruction--specifically, the whys and hows of gathering field data such as historical buildings, trees, pH in streams, invasive species, social zones on campus, and so on--and then mapping those data to analyze their spatial pattern and assess the issue from a spatial perspective. This video discusses how to connect a GPS to a computer, how to download waypoints and trackpoints, and how to save them as GIS files, along with projection and other issues. The emphasis in this video is on the hardware.