The King County (Washington) GIS Center and URISA have partnered to launch a new Pacific Northwest Education Center and have announced a full week of URISA-certified workshops, May 3-7, 2010. The five courses were selected from URISA’s portfolio of 24 day-long, GIS-related workshops. URISA-certified workshops are developed, reviewed and maintained by subject matter experts and provide vendor-independent education for GIS professionals and users.

Workshops being presented at the Education Center, May 3-7, include:

• An Overview of Open Source GIS Software

• Addresses and IS/GIS Implementation: Key to GIS Success

• Cartography and Map Design

• GIS Program Management

• Building Quality Spatial Data

URISA Certified Workshops are detailed, along with a Training Calendar, at www.urisa.org/workshops.