Learning objectives: Taking tabular data and bringing it into GIS Data Management Make a folder for today’s lab to save all your data into (i.e. lab2 in your geog204 folder). Once it is created, copy the following data from the L:\GEOG204\labs\lab2 folder: Cleaning the data Right click on the postal.txt Read more…
What are we going to do this year This year will be a bit of an adventure in getting to know GIS. In fact we will be stumbling along together to learn the fundamentals of GIS to the use of GeoSpatial technologies in general. This means we will be using Read more…
Topics Covered Making a web page from scratch Putting our links into Google Earth Using a template for your project write up Setting up a folder for use with our web server You only need to do create a new folder in your home folder for people to see the Read more…
Topics Covered: Looking at the relationships between Stat Can Boundary Layers Using these data and other data in Google Earth Stats Can Boundary Layers Many students have been confused about the boundaries of the different datasets we have been talking about in lecture and tutorial (as well as using them Read more…
Looking at Boundary Files We will look a the differences and relationships between the different Stats Can Boundary layers later on (in Tutorial and in Lecture) , but for now let’s have a look at the two types of DA boundary files we are using in the course. Open up Read more…
QGIS to Google Earth As in the lab, we managed to get a layer out of QGIS with the styling using the mmqgis plugin (see last weeks lab section on Exporting to Google Earth). Below is a screen shot of a quick (and ugly) map Scott made in QGIS using Read more…
Topics Covered: Setup your UNBC account to access your GIS workspace Download and manipulate Statistics Canada Data through the UNBC library. Create a spatial layer from a text file Join some crime data to spatial data Exercises 1: Settings and Workspaces As we have already started to experience – collecting Read more…
GeoSpatial Technologies While GIS and GIScience refer, respectively, to the system and the field of study in such systems another term that is important for us here is Geospatial. Geospatial data refers to any type of data that has a geographic or location component while geospatial technology refers to the Read more…
Topics Covered: A second look at the postal code and car thefts data Moving data from stat can into excel cleaning data in wordpad joining data in QGIS Joining Data Properly Review the Postal Code data Below is a snippet of the postal code data we worked with last tutorial: Read more…