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
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…
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…
Getting data out the hard way Why would we make anything easy for you in this course?.. We are looking at the data we bring out of SMASH in two ways. The way you may most likely bring it in if you are working as a GIS Analyst with no Read more…
The Video Link for this Tutorial is:Video Link GNSS refresher Take a look at the Geog 204 tutorial on GNSS to get a refresher on how GNSS works. GNSS stands for Global Navigation Satellite System. GDAL and creating a list of raster layers I (Scott) realize windows is getting better, Read more…
Enterprise data security and safety Ensuring your data is safe is part of being a Spatial Data Manager. Today we are going to look at backing up our database and then taking a look at versioning data in PostGIS through a QGIS plugin. Backing up your data Backing up the Read more…
Impressive sounding It really sounds cool to use the term”Enterprise”as well as “Relational Database”. We get to use them both today. The terms are definitely not as impressive as they sound. We will go over the concept of relational models for spatial data in lecture, but for today – we Read more…
Last week we looked at some data management principles and investigated the use of FME as a way to manage your data flow for projects. We had a quick look at the infamous shapefile and how ESRI and ALL other pieces of GIS software use it. We also quickly made Read more…
The link to the recording for this Tutorial isVideo Recording Project Management illustrated through software As we progress through Geog 413, you are getting closer to being a GIS Geek that can manage large corporate datasets. In order to be able to manage different types of data, you are being Read more…
Introduction Today we will be looking at doing GIS inside of the Enterprise Database using PostGIS. Now you may be wondering what is our motivation to using PostgreSQL and primarly it is due to its performance and concurrent access. When we talk about performance we are talking about how many Read more…