Transcript title
Web-based GIS
Credits
4
Grading mode
Standard letter grades
Total contact hours
60
Lecture hours
30
Lab hours
30
Recommended preparation
GEOG 266.
Course Description
Integrating open GIS data layers into cloud-hosted web services, converting desktop datasets into web maps and applications. Using no-code development platforms and customizable widgets, design interactive mapping interfaces and visualize spatial data.
Course learning outcomes
1. Summarize the importance of geographic information systems (GIS) in a collaborative and accessible environment.
2. Incorporate geographic information systems (GIS) data layers into web services to create web maps.
3. Build web mapping applications using tools and technologies in a cloud environment.
Content outline
- Introduction to Web GIS and metadata
- Collecting open data from online spatial data sources
- Converting data from desktop to web base
- Layers, Maps, and Apps
- No code application development
- Customizing Widgets
- Visualizing data
- Prepare Web Application
- Data Distribution
- Final Project
Required materials
This course will require a textbook.
