aakims / OST4GIS-Week7

Week 7 - Open Source Tools For GIS

Week 7

As always: make a copy of this repository to commit changes to

Class Outline

Week 5 Review & Introduction

• Homework/lab discussion
  • Asynchronous behavior
  • Events

Advanced Cartography

Section 1: GeoJson & Leaflet

• Plotting geojson
  • What is JSON? (Remember JSON.parse?)
  • Filtering for individual geojson elements
  • Styling individual geojson elements
• Making a legend in HTML with Leaflet and jQuery
• Lab 2

Section 2: Getting Geospatial Data

• Where to find it
• Formatting and converting it
• Using github as a backend (storage)
• Creating it with geojson.io

Homework Assignment (Due: Friday, March 16)

• Complete Lab
• Complete Assignment