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…
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…
Getting a File Based Geodatabase from DataBC into QGIS File Based GeoDatabase A File Based GeoDataBase is a format from ESRI engineered to hold a variety of data with in a folder on a computer. This is a proprietary format, but ESRI has published the structure of the data enabling 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…
Topics for today We are going to get started on the last lab/tutorial project for the semester by combining your gpx data downloaded from your mobile phones Open Street Map data. We then are going to work with the GPX data we used in lab last week to test our Read more…
Topics for today Lecture on Accuracy and Precision of GIS dataA quick look at Assignment 6 (Due November 16)Last assignment instead of a Lab Quiz Accuracy and Precision Accuracy and precision lecture pdf link Assignment 6 review We are going to make this assignment out of 10 (lowering the value Read more…
Using data from our mobile phones, raster and vector data We are going to look at some GPX data (the type that comes of your phone when collecting tracks and waypoints using GPSLogger and OpenGPX. We will then take it into QGIS and ArcPro to do some analysis with it. Read more…
Tackling some technical issues today Reviewing Midterm The midterm answer key is posted online at: Geog 204 2020, Midterm Answer Key We will go through the answer key and see if we can access the quiz each student wrote through Teams. Scott has returned each student’s quiz back to the Read more…
1. Land Use, Parcels, Streets and Districts can all be placed on top of each other in a GIS such as QGIS (as in the diagram). What is the GIS term that describes them? 1/2 Mark layers 2. What does the GIS acronym stand for – what is GIS short Read more…