Lesson02

The Evil is in The Data

Lesson02 slides

Geospatial Data Models and Modelling

Representing Real World Geography

• Digital representation
• The fundamental problem
• The spatial data models
• Topology data models

Georeferencing

• Basic concepts of projections and coordinates
• Georeferencing
• Geocoding

Geospatial data modelling

• Geospatial database design
• Spatial Metadata
• Spatial indexing
• Multi-user editing and versioning

Geospatial Data Repositories

• File-based
• Geospatial RDBMS
• Cloud based geospatial database

Before Class Readings

A Gentle Introduction to GIS [1]. Section on Vector Data, Vector Attribute Data, Raster Data, Topology and Coordinates Reference Systems.

ESRI Press. ESRI Press titles include Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design

Map Projection [2]

Geocoding [3]

Hands-on Session

Week 2: Working with Geospatial Data (The hands-on exercise handout and dataset are available in Dropbox)

Discussion

Discussion Lesson 02