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on Jan 19, 2009
Jared Chapiewsky, a web systems developer at Earth Information Technologies, Corp., demonstrated how to use open source tools to publish and explore GIS data and maps on February 27 at the 2008 Wisconsin Land Information Association Annual Conference in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
A practical, hands-on departure from the usual emphasis on PowerPoint slides, Jared Chapiewsky and his colleagues AJ Wortley, State Cartographer's Office, and David Hart, UW-Sea Grant, went through the concepts behind web mapping mashups, clients, and standards-based web services. Conference participants were encouraged to go through the actual steps involved in creating such services with the presenters using USB drives that were donated by Earth Information Technologies Corp., of Madison.
"We wanted participants to get some hands on experience creating web services, even
