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* [https://mgimond.github.io/Spatial/feature-representation.html Chapter 2 Feature Representation] of '''Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis'''
 
* [https://mgimond.github.io/Spatial/feature-representation.html Chapter 2 Feature Representation] of '''Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis'''
 
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* [https://mgimond.github.io/Spatial/gis-data-management.html Chapter 3 GIS Data Management] of '''Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis'''
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* [https://mgimond.github.io/Spatial/coordinate-systems.html Chapter 9 Coordinate Systems] of '''Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis'''
 
* [http://downloads2.esri.com/support/documentation/ao_/Modeling_our_World.pdf Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design]
 
* [http://downloads2.esri.com/support/documentation/ao_/Modeling_our_World.pdf Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_Projection Map Projection]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_Projection Map Projection]

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UrbanGIS.jpg SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning

About

Weekly Session

Take Home Exercises

GIS Project

Course Resources

 



The Evil is in The Data

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


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