GEOG30551/71551 Understanding GIS

Monday 12:00-15:00pm, Humanities Bridgeford Street Room 2.1/2.2

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Assessment 1 - A Race Around the World!

In which you apply the skills that you have learned so far to start your climb out of the desert of despair!

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5. Understanding Distortion

In which we quantitatively examine the impact of our projection choices upon our maps and analyses.

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4. Understanding Generalisation

In which we examine the coastline paradox, and discover that distance is even more confusing than we previously thought

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3. Understanding Spatial Indexes

In which we learn how to create our own functions, and how to optimise our spatial queries using a spatial index

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2. Understanding Topology

In which we expand our skills in Python, get to grips with topology and geodesy, and start to discover why building Donald Trump’s US border wall won’t be quite as easy as he thinks…

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1. Understanding GIS

In which we are introduced to Python and Git, and make our first maps with Python.

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