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Fig. 1.6 ICA working group on open source geospatial technologies course on open source
geospatial software (Photograph courtesy of Suchith Anand)
participants by providing hands on experience to develop skills in the application of
open source geospatial software (Fig. 1.6 ).
1.4.2 Courses in Collaboration with Industry
In collaboration with ESRI, Inc., a major sponsor of ICC2009 in Santiago-Chile, the
Cartography with ArcGIS course was taught after the ICC2009 in November 2009.
Mr. Makram Murad-al-shaikh, a Senior Instructor in GIS and Cartography at
ESRI's Educational Services Department, taught the course. The course was
offered free to all candidates attending the ICC2009 conference and later was
opened to lead Chilean cartographic organisations. Nineteen attendees were trained
for 3 days on both basic cartographic design principles together with hands-on
training on ESRI's ArcGIS software tools for mapping design and production. All
of the cartographic tools available in ArcGIS were explored with best practices
taught on how to use them in hands-on exercises (Fig. 1.7 ).
1.4.3 Seminars for Students
In November 2009, in collaboration with SNIT (Sistema Nacional de Coordinaci ´ n
de Informaci ´ n Territorial), Chile, members of the ICA Commission on Geospatial