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Weekly Topics for PA 541


There are 15 weeks in the NCSU semester, organized as follows:

PA 541: GIS in Public Administration
Week Date Topic Assignments
1 August 20, Homework Introduction O: 1-2
GIS for Government
2 August 27, Homework ArcMap and ArcCatalog O: 3-4
Geographic Information Systems (Slideshow; pay particular attention to raster and vector formats)
3 Sept. 3, Homework Symbology O: 5
"What Is GIS?" tutorial at http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html
USGS Map Symbology
4 Sept. 10, Homework Classification O: 6
Mitchell book notes
5 Sept. 17, Homework Labeling O: 7
GIS tutorial at http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/tutorial.asp
6 Sept. 24, Homework Querying, Joining, Relating O: 8 - 9
Map Analysis with Feature Datasets (Slideshow)
7 Oct. 1, Homework Location Queries, Data Preparation
O: 10 - 11
Scale, Accuracy, and Resolution (slide show)
8 October 8, Homework Midterm -
9 October 15, Homework Buffering and Overlaying O: 12
GIS as an Integrating Technology
10 October 22, Homework Modeling O: 20
Read ArcGIS online help on "Introducing model building" (see. p. 519 for navigation to this)
11 Oct. 29, Homework Projecting Data O: 13
Projections (Slide Show)
12 Nov. 5,Homework Geodatabases O: 14
13 Nov. 12, Homework Creating and Editing Features O: 15-16
14 Nov. 19, Homework Geocoding O: 17
Georeferencing (Slide Show)
15 Nov. 26 Thanksgiving Vacation -
16 Dec. 3, Homework Presenting Data O: 18 - 19

Key to Assignments:
O: Ormsby, Getting to Know ArcGIS