Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
11.188: Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory
Project Preparation, Online Data, and Misc. Tips
May 2, 2012, Joseph Ferreira, Jr.
Administrative
Are you caught up on Labs (#8) and Homework (#3, part 2)?
Have you turned in your project mini-proposal?
Have you started work on the title and abstract due Monday?
Have you identified enough data (and a narrow enough topoic) that you have a feasible project?
Outline for Today
Mostly individual project conversations plus comments about the following topics
Review and consolidate recent tips regarding project work
online data sources
MassGIS web services are working once again
Z:\athena.mit.edu\course\11\11.188\www\labs\lab8\11.188_web_service_examples.mxd
GIS services from MIT Libraries
project management
Graded tests will be uploaded onto Stellar. Should be finished by tomorrow
Review and consolidate recent tips
Project work
Online data sources:
links in lecture notes from
Oct. 27 (web services)
links in lab exercise
#8 (web services)
links in Lisa Sweeney's "Intro to Geoprocessing"
lecture (Sept. 1)
GIS services at MIT Libraries
gishelp@mit.edu
GIS Lab inside Rotch Library
GeoLytics CD with 1990, 1980,... census data using 2000 geography
Geocoding US addresses using seemless US street map
Project management
Keep original data separate from working copies
Copy project folder to local drive
Copy back when finished with your work session
Save ArcMap documents early and often
Never work on your only copy of a valuable ArcMap document
Open a COPY of the document
Keep a 'lab notebook' with brief notes about what you have done each day
Last modified 2 May 2012 [jf].
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