Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
11.520: A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems
11.188: Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory

Internet GIS and GeoSpatial Web Services

 

October 29, 2008, Joseph Ferreira

 

Administrative

  • Lab #7 due Monday, Nov. 3, Lab #8 due Nov. 10 (last lab)
  • Homework #2: Part 2, due in one week (Nov. 5)
  • Project Proposals: Short (<1 page on topic, intention, and data sources) proposal due on Stellar by Friday, Nov. 7
  • Homework #3: Raster Analysis and ModelBuilder, Part 1 due Friday, Nov. 14; Part 2 due Wed. Nov. 19

Today

  • Introduction to Internet GIS and GeoSpatial Web Services
    • Yahoo Maps, Google Earth, Mapquest, etc. - are these Internet GIS?
    • What about map 'mashups' on top of Google Maps and Google Earth?
    • Distinguish between map publication and interactive spatial analysis
    • Examine open standards for interoperable geospatial web services
  • Sample topics from URISA Internet GIS Workshop notes (by Joe Ferreira and Zhong-Rhen Peng with additions by Mike Flaxman)
    • Part of one-day URISA Workshop by Profs. Joe Ferreira and Zhong-Rhen Peng plus additions by Prof. Mike Flaxman
    • Sample topics from PDF-formatted powerpoint slides
    • Do Internet GIS exercises in Lab Exercise #8 on Monday



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