Below are a set of questions that refer to materials covered in the course up to September 29th. It does not include any Python coding. There is a mixture of tasks and questions, and you will also need to use osmotar for part of the assignment. The assignment is due Read more…
The video recording link for this lecture is:Video Link Using a Plugin in QGIS for data analysis in PostGIS We have been working towards using the enterprise database management system for our data storage and analysis needs. Today we will get a brief introduction to the logic of data stored 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…
A few other things as well There are many levels and perspectives on managing projects. We have been poking our heads in at the GIS data management level so far. We have introduced some software that can be used to model the flow in GIS data processing (i.e. FME), and 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…
Part 1: Using our mobile phones to collect field data As we cannot access our Virtual Machines presently, we will switch gears to add in a second assignment. The APP(s) to be used in the assignment We have looked at a couple GNSS apps in Android and iOS (GPSLogger and Read more…
Git Init When using git repositories your project folder is presented to the operating system simply as a folder with files. There is also a hidden folder named .git that is used by git to track changes. The .git folder contains information about where the repository is hosted, and the Read more…
For todays lab we will be looking at how to publish interactive maps for end user consumption. Think of this as a blend between cartography and WMS/WFS. Making PDF maps is great in that is gives us a lot of control in how the data is presented and what story Read more…