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…
Introduction In todays labs we are going to look at optimizing our databases for efficiency, in terms of storage space, performance, and truth. We will do this through a process called Normalization. Keys & Normalized form Normalized form is a large topic that could easily be its own course, we Read more…
Introduction As we live in the information age, we often need ways of wading through huge amounts of data, as computers get faster they can in many cases work faster than we can. It is often very advantagous to automate repetitive tasks in GIS to allow you to do more Read more…
This week’s lab will focus on building a foundation in scripting skills using python. Before we can start programming we need to set up our development environment, the development environment consists of 3 main components: a programming language, a text editor, and libraries. Our Programming language is Python 3, this Read more…