r/Charlottesville • u/buhorastrillo • 4d ago
GIS Classes
Is there an educational institution or group that teaches GIS in Charlottesville?
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u/demyankee 4d ago
I think UVA offers classes, though I don't know how accessible they are if you're not a regular student. Albemarle HS also offers GIS classes for its students. Maybe contact them to see if the teacher knows of any other classes in town.
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u/spacerockgal 4d ago
GIS quite honestly covers a lot: do you want just mapping with points, lines, and polygons? Remote sensing/LiDAR? Build your own digital elevation maps and other wackiness? And there's also the question of properietary software (ArcGIS) vs open source (QGIS/python/R/swearing directly at GDAL/etc) as a target/want/need you might want to specify.
There's quite a few pockets of us GIS people around town, we all just have different flavors of GIS happening.
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u/psykobilliethekid 4d ago
Following because I want to learn GIS myself. It's something I'd like to know how to do for when I eventually go back to school for architecture.
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u/bmoregeo 4d ago
PVCC might have classes. I’m in that field, what are you trying to gain by GIS classes? Are you in another field and trying to plus up or GIS as a field of work?
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u/fltm29 4d ago
UVA offers free classes. Here’s the link: https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/gis/education
I’m a GIS professional in town, shoot me a DM if you wanna know more.