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

• Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design

Additional Readings

• Geospatial Database Template for Urban Management in Fez (Morocco)
• Object-oriented GIS Data Modelling for Urban Design

All About QGIS

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