Training

Training resources for GIS professionals working with USNG

Online Videos

Video tutorials discussing USNG and how to integrate into geospatial products

  • Making USNG Maps, Randy Knippel (62:39 minutes). Presentation given during the WLIA Online conference on February 15, 2021.

Presentations

Ready-to-use slides for training geospatial professionals

  • Understanding and Implementing Mapping and the US National Grid for Emergency Services, Talbot Brooks (59 slides, 26.5 MB, PPT). Includes a USNG “why” discussion, overview, how to read a USNG coordinate on a USGS topographic map, and section devoted to helping geospatial personnel understand the need to provide a standardized map product to the Emergency Services Sector.
  • USNG Zone Junction, Tom Terry (24 slides, 1.6MB, PDF). A series of example slides showing the incorrect, and correct ways for GIS personnel to deal with a grid zone junction while creating a map. Additional slides show modern aircraft Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) can easily handle operations in vicinity of a grid zone junction.
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