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…
Lit Review Follow this link to read the description of the Lit Review assignment (you can also find the link on the Course syllabus page:https://gis.unbc.ca/geog204/geog-204-literature-review/ Project Description Folow this link to read through an example template for the class project (there is also a link on the course syllabus page):https://gis.unbc.ca/geog204/geog-204-project-layout/ Read more…
Outline for Literature Review The purpose of the literature review is to establish a foundation of information pertaining to your research area. This has two benefits: one benefit is to gain a background of understanding of research that has already been done to see if you can improve past techniques Read more…
Outline for Projects The research project in this course is intended to encourage students to use their education in GIS to gain insight to a field of study that interests each individual. I this regard topics can be broadly based bust must incorporate most of the themes of study presented Read more…
Raster data as spatial layers We are going to look at some different types of raster data today as well as exploring these data in both QGIS and ArcPro. Starting with QGIS NOTE: When you start QGIS – please start with the version of QGIS with GRASS. Start Menu QGIS Read more…
Not points, lines and polygons We have looked at vector data so far in the labs and tutorials. We understand the relationship between these vector layers. We have investigated how vector geometries and attributes can be manipulated through spatial analysis, and now we are going to look at a different Read more…
We have looked at data and the connections between the geometries (features) and their attributes in layers. One of the other key aspects in learning GIS is the analysis of relationships between layers. As we see in lab, GIS software such as QGIS and ArcPro have a multitude of tools Read more…
Working with ArcPro this week This weeks lab is going to make use of ArcPro. ArcPro and QGIS are very similar in how they work and the layout of the software. As we are using a new piece of software this week, we will make use of this week’s lab Read more…
Online and Take Home This year the midterm for Geog 204 will be a combination of an online synchronous portion and a take home to email later portion. Synchronous portion on Teams The synchronous portion of the exam will take place at the scheduled lecture period of 8:30 Friday October Read more…
The use of Unique IDs to relate census layers In the lab and tutorial we have looked at Census data in the forms of Postal Codes and Dissemination Layers. In lecture we have looked at the small area layers that can be use for analysis such as: Blocks, Dissemination Area, Read more…