Type:
Instructor Manual
Resource:
An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
Edition:
4th Edition
Author(s):
D. Ian Heywood Sarah Cornelius Steve Carver
Instructor’s Manual An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems Fourth Edition
Ian Heywood Sarah Cornelius Steve Carver For further instructor material please visit: Email: richard@qwconsultancy.com
Contents Chapters
Pages
Introduction
5
Part 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Lecture outlines What is GIS? Spatial data Spatial data modelling Database management Data input and editing Data analysis Analytical modelling in GIS Output: from new maps to enhanced decisions The development of computer methods for handling spatial data Data quality issues Human and organizational issues GIS project design and management The future of GIS
8 9 13 17 21 24 27 31 34 37 41 45 48 51
Part 2 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. 13.
Practical exercises Spatial data Spatial data modelling Database management Data input and editing Data analysis Analytical modelling in GIS Output: from new maps to enhanced decisions Data quality issues GIS project design and management The future of GIS
54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Part 3
GIS software and data sources GIS software: freeware/shareware GIS data sources: downloads
65 66 68
3 © Pearson Education Limited 2012
Heywood, Cornelius and Carver, An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, 4th Edition, Instructor’s Manual
4 © Pearson Education Limited 2012
Introduction This Instructor’s Manual is based around a lecture planner (see below) that uses the chapters in the book to build-up a series of sample lecture courses in GIS. These can be used ‘as is’ or modified to create customized lecture courses using the book as the students’ core text. The basic contents of each lecture is given as a series of subject headers and numbered points together with suggestions for modes of delivery (e.g. problem-focused or sequential). PowerPoint slides of selected graphics from the book are provided to help with lecture development. Lectures are supported through suggestions for student activities, student assessment (both formative and summative), practical exercises, data sources and software.
Lecture planner The book has been written in such a manner that it can be used on its own to build-up an introductory course to GIS, simply by working through the chapters in numerical order. However, it is appreciated that many lecturers and tutors will want to customize their teaching, following a different track through the basic material, perhaps using the chapters in a different order. To facilitate this process, a lecture planner table is provided to give a few examples of how the chapters in the book can be organized into coherent lecture courses simply by reordering the material. Indeed, when we originally put pen to paper, we thought long and hard about how best to order the material. For example, the material on the historical development of GIS that we placed in Part 2: Chapter 9, to some people’s mind might better have been placed in Chapter 1. Nevertheless, we thought it best to cover the basics of the technology first before seeing how it was developed. It’s all a matter of personal choice. With this in mind, take a look at the following table. Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Course 1 1 9 2, 8 3, 4 5, 10 6 6, 7 6, 7 − − − − − 12 12, 13
Course 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, 10 9, 11 12 13
Course 3 1 2 − − − − 3 4 5 6 7 8 12
Course 4 1 2 3 4, 5 6 8 − 10, 7 11, 12 11, 12 − 9 13
Course 5 1, 2, 9 3 4 4 − 5 5 10 10 6 6 7 10 8 11 12
5 © Pearson Education Limited 2012
Course 6 1 − 2 − 3 4 5 6 − 7 8 − − 9
Course 7 1, 9 2 − 3 3 3, 4 4 − 5 6, 7 6, 7 8, 11 10, 11, 12 11, 13