In today’s lab you will be working in ArcGIS Pro to produce a map of the Smithers area using source data provided. Goals of Map Design Several goals of map design can be identified. These include: 1. Map Preparation You will produce a map, designed for a letter sized page Read more…
To resolve issues with slow canvas draw speeds in ArcGIS Pro, switch the Rendering Engine from DirectX to OpenGL. 1. 2. 3. Choose Display, and set options to match this screenshot 4. Restart ArcGIS Pro
Build good habits now A general reminder that GIS Software does crash, especially if we accidently open files that are too large. Remember to save often; and when (if?) the software crashes, this is not entirely unexpected and the most successful path forward will be to stay as calm as Read more…
Housekeeping We are transitioning to the use of ArcGIS online as our portal for this course, we will start by switching our active portal to https://unbc.maps.arcgis.com according to the instructions here: https://gis.unbc.ca/support/arcgis-pro-portals/ Summary The purpose of today’s lab is to gain an understanding of map and coordinate systems. We will Read more…
In today’s lab we will be logging into the various accounts we will be using, looking at how the file server works, and taking a look at ArcGIS Pro; the primary software we will be using this semester. Housekeeping During Labs, you are encouraged to ask questions, and interact with 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…