GeoSpatial Training Services Releases 4 Virtual Short Courses on Web Services and AJAX

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Thursday, July 13, 2006; 07:06 AM

GeoSpatial Training Services LLC, a provider of virtual and instructor led GIS training courses, announced the upcoming release of four new "short course" virtual training courses including "Geocoding with Google Maps", "Reading Databases and XML Files in Google Maps", "Web Services 101", and "Reading ArcObjects Object Model Diagrams".

Each of these short courses is designed to provide educational content specific to a narrowly focused topic of interest. The course delivery method allows students to view audio and visual lectures in a Flash movie format from the convenience of their home or office.

"Geocoding with Google Maps" provides a timely overview of the recently released geocoding capabilities built into the Google Maps API.This short course is dedicated to some fundamental geocoding concepts and how they are applied by the Google Maps API in the form of the GClientGeocoder object. In addition, it teaches how to cache addresses on the client side browser through the GGeocodeCache object to increase the performance of your application. Finally, it explores the use of the HTTP request for submitting server side geocoding requests through AJAX .

In the "Reading Databases and XML Files in Google Maps" virtual course you will be introduced to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) and the functionality it provides for reading XML files containing points of interest that can be plotted on a Google Maps application. In addition, the course takes a look at how to read points of interest from relational database management systems such as Oracle or SQL Server. Each of these methods provides a way of storing large numbers of addresses to service any Google Maps application.

The "Web Services 101" course introduces you to the increasingly popular subject of web services. There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the subject of web services, and the course attempts to clear up any confusion. It describes the technical characteristics of web services as well as their definitive characteristics. In addition, web services re reviewed from a business perspective to gain an understanding of how your organization can benefit from the implementation and use of web services.

"Fundamental ArcObjects Concepts" provides you with an overview of various object-oriented programming topics as they relate to the ArcObjects programming library. A necessary pre-requisite to learning how to program with ArcObjects is an understanding of some fundamental object oriented programming concepts including classes, objects, COM objects, and how to read an object model diagram.  These subjects are covered in detail in this course.