Map Class

Created Wednesday 11 June 2014 by Thejesh GN

This is an introduction map class notes. You could say Maps101 class. I wrote this first for my map class at NID, Bangalore. Since then I have imporved it. You could use the menu on the side bar to navigate to the modules of the class. This was written using ZimWiki which is an awesome note making software.

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Web: http://thejeshgn.com

Reading List

• M.Sc. GIS Lecture Notes http://www.nuim.ie/staff/dpringle/gis/lectures.shtml
• Geospatial Modeling and Analysis http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/common/GIS_anal_lecture/GIS_Anal_Lectall.html
• Cartographical Map Projections http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/TOC/cartTOC.html
• So you want to make a map... https://github.com/veltman/learninglunches/tree/master/maps
• A simple and lightweight framework for creating beautiful, interactive vector maps. http://kartograph.org/
• Tiled Map Servers, http://www.liedman.net/tiled-maps/
• Projections http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/TOC/cartTOC.html
• Find user longitude and laltitude with out instruments http://www.pbs.org/weta/roughscience/series1/challenges/latlong/
• Finding longitude http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion1/tc_finding.html
• Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings http://anitagraser.com/
• Map Compare http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?num=2&mt0=mapnik&mt1=toner
• Bangalore Open Data Repository is repository of data, code and related artifacts http://openbangalore.org/
• Awesome plugins for leaflet http://leafletjs.com/plugins.html

Contributing back to GIS community

• OSM
• Field Maps
• Datameet is a community of Data Science and Open Data enthusiasts. http://DataMeet.org
• GeoBLR: Bangalore's Spatial Gathering http://GeoBlr.in

Plan

• Ask them what they want to know or do ❄
• Ask them what they already know ❄
• Map what they want to know ↔ what you are going to cover
• Class
• Point to resources for the extra/uncovered points