The GeoScience Lab has the pleasure of inviting you to a one day workshop on how to use the Landscapes Portal to share, download, visualize and analyse spatial data, scheduled for 12 March 2014 from 10:00am EAT time at the Lundgren Auditorium, World Agroforestry Centre. This is a follow up to the seminar done by Dr. Tor Vagen on 26th February 2014.

If you are interested you can can register at - [REGISTER](http://doodle.com/ef37if739p6pqy95)

**Objective: Provide training on actual usage of the Landscapes Portal.**

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Program: The workshop is structured around four sessions (separated by morning break, lunch and afternoon break).**

**File to be used for the presentation can be accessed from [HERE](http://landscapeportal.org/uploaded/workshop/landscapeportal_workshop.zip)**

#### 1st session (Introduction)
#### Time: 9:00-10:30 will include:

- Quick Registration
- Spatial data layers
- Uploading data to the Landscapes portal
- Setting file permissions
- Downloading layers

Presentation can be accessed from [PPT](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nNuoHon7RoxtDrn0iB57QbP8xBP2cU9ojtCymWcxuiw/edit#slide=id.p)

Coffee Break

#### 2nd session (Metadata)
#### Time 11:00-12:30 will include:

- What is metadata and why it matters
- How to add metadata to your layers
- Edit styles

Lunch

#### 3nd session (Mapping)
#### Time 2:00-3:00 will include:

- Online Mapping - the new approach
- Elements of a good map
- Creating a map
- Viewing and sharing your maps
- Adding base layers

Presentation can be accessed from [PPT](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tRBuyx6D6hl8uRiaeG0ruPJ1YJCp4n_xKJT4VgAFET0/edit?usp=sharing)

Coffee Break

#### 4th session (Advance)
#### Time 3:15-4:15 will include:

- Linking to other web mapping services
- Spatial Queries
- Mapping your stories - integrating maps to your blogs