Lesson 2
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SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning
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The Evil is in The Data
Contents
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
Readings
Core Readings
- Chapter 2 Feature Representation of Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis
- Chapter 3 GIS Data Management of Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis
- Chapter 9 Coordinate Systems of Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis
- Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design
Additional Readings
All About QGIS
- A Gentle Introduction to GIS. Section on Vector Data, Vector Attribute Data, Raster Data, Topology and Coordinates Reference Systems.
