Web-based GIS Mapping and Cartography Course

INTRODUCTION

GlobalThe increasing flexibility of GIS technologies means that they can be used in almost every field imaginable and by people from all walks of life. With adequate training, both non-GIS and GIS experts can reap more benefits and realize the immense applicability of GIS technologies in daily life.

Cartography is a fundamental training in map drafting, compilation, symbolization, scales, projections, and map reproduction, including an emphasis on the conceptual planning and designing of maps and graphs as a medium for communication.

Once, only cartographers made maps. Today anyone can. Still, cartographers can teach people to make better maps, just as chefs can show people how to cook better meals. With coaching from experienced cartographers and practical, hands-on exercises using ArcGIS Pro, you'll become a smarter mapmaker, ready to go beyond the defaults and make better maps.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

REQUIREMENTS

No prior knowledge of GIS is required.

DURATION

10 days

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To understand the importance of web services and to give you some experience making web maps with FOSS and open standards
• Acquire skills how to make different types of web map
• Understanding spatial databases
• Learn how to publish maps online using open source software (Carto DB, fusion Tables, Geoserver).
• Able to Read Data from various Data source
•  Processing spatial data with FOSS
• Drawing and querying maps on the server using Web Map Service
• Putting layers together with a web mapping API
• Learn how to Explore open data, VGI, and crowdsourcing

COURSE OUTLINE

Module1: Mapping

• What is GIS cartography? - An introduction to modern cartography

• Map data accuracy and scale issues

• Cartographic design and the communication channel

• Consider the value and purpose of cartography as science and art.

• Get set up with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS

• Online, and exercise data. Use ArcGIS Pro to design a small-format, multiscale topographic map, using generalization tools and scale-dependent symbology. Use layouts for composition.

• Add contextual detail, insets, legends, and marginalia.

Module 2: Maths for Map Makers

• Projections
• Explore how coordinate systems, transformations, and projections affect your map's message.
• Deal with the effects of projections and data classification methods on thematic maps.

• Design and publish a custom base map in a nonstandard projection to support thematic data.

• Build attribute driven symbology.

• Publish a multi-scale web map and app.

Module 3: The Language of Graphics

• Symbology

• See how generalization, symbology, and color affect your story.

• Explore generalization techniques that reduce feature complexity for smaller-scale displays.

• Create a variety of thematic maps, including choropleth, proportional symbol, value by alpha, and multivariate maps.
• Change symbology and use transparency in creative ways.

Module 4: Labels and Composition

• Execution of design

• Name placement

• Generalization

• Typography, label placement, and map composition.

• Set up a palette of label styles for different features and explore options for positioning them around other map details.
• Create a layout that includes a range of marginalia.

• Use ArcGIS expressions to define labels in innovative ways.

Module 5: Going 3D

• Consider how to best use the z dimension to represent data for both reference and thematic maps.
• Use 3D symbology and develop a sense of when 3D adds value to your map.

• Build 3D scenes and vary the way features are represented using attributes and dynamic symbology.

Module 6: Mapping Movement and Change

• Statistical mapping

• Color in cartography

• Map critique
• Use the time-aware and animation controls in ArcGIS Pro to design maps that show temporal change.
• Direct an animated movie to map change; add captions and dynamic overlay information; and publish in a range of popular, shareable formats.
• Create a display of small multiples for an infographic poster.

Module 7: GIS and Web Mapping Application

◦ Understanding OGC web mapping Standards

◦ Web GIS development cycle

◦ Evolution and types of web mapping Technology

◦ System architecture for web mapping

◦ Understanding Free and Open Source Software and its use in web mapping

◦ Exploring QGIS as an open source software

◦ Find and share web maps on CartoDB

◦ installing Geoserver

• Loading data, creating server side analytical processes

• Render the data on the client side using Open layers 3.0.

• Map Components

• Working with shapefiles and attribute data in QGIS

• Introductions to principles and concepts of GIS and web mapping

Module 8: Web Mapping Technologies

Understanding spatial databases

• Tiled web map

• XML/XHTM

• CSS

• WMS service

• Java script

• Write a page using HTML and CSS

• HTML

Designing web services and maps
Analytic web maps

• System architecture for web mapping

• Elements of a web map

• Collaborative web maps

• Animated and real time

• Static web maps

Reading Data from various Data source

• Reading Points from an XML file

• Converting shapefiles to XML

• Geocoding and reverse geocording

• Adding Side bars

• KML

• Ajax

• Using Fusion Table as Data source

• Mapping your own data

• Reading shapefiles using javascript libraries

Processing spatial data with Open Source Software

• Processing raster data set with QGIS and GDAL

• Understanding data formats for use in web mapping

• geo-processing and projecting vector data with QGIS and OGR

• Processing spatial data with Free Open source Software

Module 9: Drawing and querying maps on the server using Web Map Service

Dynamically drawn map services

• Basic and advanced symbolization andstyling with a WMS

• Introduction to basics of Open specifications for web map services and WMS specification

Building tiled maps with Free Open Source Software

• Making the decision to build and maintain tiles

• Introduction to Concepts of tiled maps

• Creating tiles with GeoServer using GeoWebCache

• Strategies for creating and serving map tiles

• Creating tiles with Mapnik using TileMill

Module 10: Putting layers together by the use of a web mapping API

Introduction to web mapping API

• Overlaying WMS on tiled maps with OpenLayers

• Examining OpenLayers examples
• Programming patterns with web mapping APIs

Google Maps API

• Introduction to google maps

• Adding Makers to Google maps

• Creating Custom Web maps without programming

• Building Google maps/ customization

• Orientation to Google maps API

• Working with vector KML

• drawing vector layers on the client side

• Symbolizing vector layers in OpenLayers

• Working with GeoJSON

• GIS analysis on the web

• Adding interactive GeoJSON layers in OpenLayers

Exploring open data, VGI, and crowdsourcing

• Ways of opening data

• OpenStreetMap and its application in open data

• VGI and crowd sourced projects

• downloading source data from OpenStreetMap

• Mapping social media data

Publishing maps using open source softwares (Geoserver)

• Overview Geoserver

• Installing and configuring Geoserver

• Setting up Geosever

• The Geoserver Interface

• Data querying in Geoserver

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