Web Map of the Week

NOAA Interagency Elevation Inventory
https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/

Reading and Lesson Review

https://play.kahoot.it/

Announcements

Be sure to either create a new or convert your FRCC ArcGIS Online account

Centroid South Meeting last Friday

Carto \ Github Student Developer Pack https://carto.com/blog/carto-is-part-of-the-github-student-pack

Anything else?

Alumni 'Quiz'

Just name and outside email so we can stay in touch with GIS Program alum

Take in D2L, 'should' be active now...

Official: Quiz 1

Covering classes 1 and 2

Take in D2L

Lecture Time 1

Quick Review

Data Services, STILL

real example

  • Planning firm does transportation planning for NPS
  • Looking for a new process that doesn't involve downloading and processing tons of data!
  • Map Service FTW!
we found exactly what they needed
https://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/rest/services/cultural_resources/nrhp_locations/MapServer

this happens all the time!

Do we use an existing platform like ArcGIS Online or build a custom application

currently investigating this...

#OpenData: some portals

DC Open Data Portal
http://opendata.dc.gov/
searchable... parks
open in ArcGIS.com
Washington State Open Data Portal
http://geo.wa.gov/
searchable... boating

Do we want to download it?

Or use the #API (turns out to be a Map Service FTW!)

Ways to create services

that we've done so far
  • ArcGIS Online
  • Carto
  • Mapbox

Map Services in Desktop GIS

    You can also use map servcies in your desktop projects
  • Don't need to process and publish data
  • Maintained\Updated for you
    You can also publish data for use in web maps
  • Most flexible way to share data that doesn't already exist
  • Let's say you want to create a kayaking map and show launch spots...

Lab 1

Desktop GIS and Map Services

Break

Lecture Time 2

Standards

Web Map Server (WMS) is a standard for serving map tiles

geojson is a standard for transferring geo data

shapefile is defacto standard for transferring geo data

file geodatabase is a vendor specific format, i.e. not a standard

Open Geospatial Consortium

There are a lot of standards here!
http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/is

Lab 2

Hour of Code

Minecraft intro to javascript
https://studio.code.org/s/mc/stage/1/puzzle/1

For Next Week

Read text book 3.4.4: The Need for Easier Standards

For Next Week

Reading Notes

    text book 3.4.4: The Need for Easier Standards

  • All of this is woefully outdated. There is no mention of geojson or vector tile services. The basic takeaway is that standards are good for us because they offer the most flexibility among platforms.