Announcements
Exam 2 will cover only chapters 3, 8, and 9 from the GIS
Fundamentals book.
Exam 2 will take place in class on Wednesday, 2 May.
Final project presentations will be on Wednesday, 9 May, from 1:30PM to 4:00pm in Williams 319.
No class on Wednesday, 11 April. Instead, please attend two talks at the Whalen Symposium and write a couple
of paragraphs describing the talks. You can attend any talks; there are several talks during the class period.
See the Whalen Symposium
Schedule
No class on Friday, 23 March. Instead, please attend some talk at Ed Tech day and write a couple
of paragraphs describing how the technology you learned about in the talk. Your paragraph should relate
the technology to GIS, your major, or some aspect of your life, so chose the talk appropriately. If
you are unable to attend any talks because of classes, work, etc, then go to
GIS news, and read at least two articles and write a summary (at least one page long) of the articles.
As we've talked about in class, scientists are constantly measuring the earth. Here's a
BBC article that discusses
how scientists are mapping the Moho Boundary, the area between
the Earth's crust and it's mantle.
Here's an interesting site that's all about data visualization:
many eyes.
Fix the Firefox problem! Now that we can log in, there's a firefox problem. Here's how to fix it:
- Log into Linux. Then go to menu bar at the top of the screen and choose Places->Home Folder
- Right-click some place (not on a folder) and choose "create folder". Create a folder called "tmp"
(it actually doesn't matter what you call it).
- Now go to the menu bar and choose View->Show Hidden Files
- Find the folder called .mozilla Drag this folder to the tmp folder that you created two steps ago.
- You should not be able to start firefox. Note that any bookmark that you created will be gone. Oh, well.
Here's what projections are really about: Map Projectsions, xkcd (thanks Madison!)
The midterm exam will be in class on Wednesday, March 7. It will cover chapters 1-7 in the book. ArcGIS online
and Qgis will not be part of the exam. Look under the "Assignments" menu for exam topics.
Schedule for the week of 20 February:
- Finish chapter 3, start chapter 4
- Do tutorial 2, raster images
- Work out a problem for exercise 2.
- Find a problem for project 1
Schedule for the week of 27 February:
- Due Monday: hand in a paragraph that describes your problem and a list of links of maps that you'll use in exercise 2.
- Determine a theme for project 1. Project 1 will be due the week after Spring Break.
- Wednesday: Do tutorial 2: raster images
- Find data for project 1 to present on Monday, March 5.
Schedule for the week of 5 March:
- Due Monday: present exercise 2 in class. Review for exam.
- Wednesday: exam.
- Friday: tutorial 3: databases and queries
Note on Tutorial 1: There is a mistake on step 14. The first bullet point says "Name = "Trap_ID". It should say "Name = id".
See the accompanying screen shot. The second bullet point is correct.
- Want to know the real affect of centrifugal force? See here
(thanks to Adam for the link!).
- Welcome to Comp 12400! Here's what we'll be learning in this class:
About Comp 12400
Geographic Information Systems is about problem solving with maps and
computers.
