Monday, January 24, 2011

Module 2 - Introduction to data models / data types / the geodatabase

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. Describe the Coverage data format
  2. Describe the Shapefile data format
  3. Describe the Geodatabase data format
  4. Describe the CAD data format
  5. Compare and conrast each of the above data formats
  6. List several other data formats used for storing geographic information
TERMS TO KNOW
  • Describe the raster data model
  • Describe the vector data model
  • Define data format
  • Coverage
  • Shapefile
  • Geodatabase
  • CAD
  • feature class
  • feature dataset
  • stored / shared topology
  • coincident features

READING ASSIGNMENT

Modeling Our World - Chapter 4 and the ESRI support pages below

PowerPoint Supplement


From the ESRI support pages:

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE

Working with different data formats exercise

The data for this exercise can be found on the server: H:\GIS\GIS_classes\GIS215\SpatialDataFormats

Copy it to your flash drive to complete this exercise.

STUDY QUESTIONS

  1. List 4 disadvantages of the CAD data format
  2. What is a geo-relational data model?
  3. What are 3 disadvantages to the ArcInfo Coverage?
  4. Describe the shapefile
  5. How many files must be present for a shapefile to be considered whole?
  6. What are 3 disadvantages to the shapefile?
  7. Describe the geodatabase in 1 sentence.
  8. List the geodatabase types.
  9. What type of information is modeled well using raster data?
  10. What type of information is modeled well using vector data?

HOMEWORK ... YES HOMEWORK

Working with CAD data in ArcGIS 9.2

Monday, January 10, 2011

Module 1: Class Introduction / Review ArcGIS / Data Models / Project 1

COURSE INTRODUCTION




LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Review of ArcGIS and GIS 111 (follow the link)
  2. Define data model
  3. Define data format
  4. Describe the differences and similarities of the data models and data formats
  5. List 2 data formats
TERMS TO KNOW
  • Data model
  • Coverage
  • Shapefile
  • Geodatabase
  • CAD
  • Raster
  • Vector

READING ASSIGNMENT

Modeling Our World - Preface and Chapter 1 (for next week)

PowerPoint Supplemements (refresh page if download does not begin)


ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE

Project 1: Building a Buncombe County Geodatabase

HOMEWORK

Finish Project 1 for next week.