Lesson 3

SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning

About

Weekly Session

Take Home Exercises

GIS Project

Course Resources

Urban Geospatial Models

Content

• Geospatial Data Models
  • 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

• Map Projection
• Geocoding

All About QGIS

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