In today’s lab we will be logging into the various accounts we will be using, looking at how the file server works, and getting to know ArcGIS Pro, the primary software we will be using this semester. Housekeeping During Labs, you are encouraged to ask questions and interact with the Read more…
Exam Layout On the exam there will be: some (not many) multiple choicefill in the blank questionsshort answershort written tasks – short essay or combination of short paragraph questions In this class we covered many GIS concepts and techniques and how these can be combined to solve problems proposed in Read more…
Getting prepared for assignment 3 In order for Scott and Matt to grade projects, we need access to the PostGIS. A readonly user needs to be set up. We will borrow this from: https://gist.github.com/oinopion/4a207726edba8b99fd0be31cb28124d0
Data for Decision and the Canadian Geographical Information System We will look at a video produced in the 1960s for the promotion of the Canadian Geographic Information System (CGIS). Here is the link to the first video – they stream together in order of Youtube: Data for decision Topics to Read more…
Points to keep in mind GIS is NOT an umbrella for other geospatial fields Many people express GIS as an umbrella of which their spatial fields such as remote sensing, surface draping rendering (flight simulators) or cartography fall under. These areas are better expressed as separate complimentary entities that exist Read more…
Security using Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) We are going to set up some firewall rules to illustrate how we can lock up our machines, but yet allow access for access for certain protocols. Installing UFW We should really update our machines before we do this, but we did that at the Read more…
Data security and privacy are large topics to discuss. There are a great deal of people employed in this field and whole courses are necessary to tackle the topics within these two fields of interest. There is generally some cyber sort of threat added to the list of concerns for Read more…
Prepping for the Tutorial Before we get going: Start connections to both your Virtual Machine and Osmotar Open up a browser on both interfaces Installing FME on Debian Download FME In the browser on your VM, download the file:https://downloads.safe.com/fme/2020/fme-desktop-2020_2020.2.0.0.20787~debian.10_amd64.deb You can find the file by searching out FME Downloads, go Read more…
Beyond Accuracy and Precision We discussed the issues of accuracy and precision in last lecture, but we should also look a bit deeper at error and other related issues defining data quality. We are now well versed on how important “clean” spatial data is for mapping and analysis, but we Read more…
We are going to take the lessons we learned in the Tutorials and lecture 5 to create a custom project in SMASH and collect some data. This assignment will be worth 25% of your grade for the course. It is due November 20th. Using SMASH We have played with the Read more…