Weekly Topics for PA 541

Spring 2010

PA 541: GIS in Public Administration

Week	Date	Topic	Assignments
1	January 13, Homework	Introduction	O: 1-2 GIS for Government GIS in City Government
2	January 20, Homework, Continued	ArcMap and ArcCatalog	O: 3-4 Geographic Information Systems (Slideshow; pay particular attention to raster and vector formats)
3	January 27, Homework	Symbology	O: 5 "What Is GIS?" tutorial at http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html USGS Map Symbology
4	February 3, Homework	Classification	O: 6 Mitchell book notes
5	February 10, Homework, Continued	Labeling	O: 7 GIS tutorial at http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/tutorial.asp
6	February 17, Homework	Querying, Joining, Relating	O: 8 - 9 Map Analysis with Feature Datasets (Slideshow)
8	February 24, Homework	Location Queries, Data Preparation	O: 10 - 11 Scale, Accuracy, and Resolution (slide show)
7	March 3, Homework	Midterm	-
9	March 10, Homework	Buffering and Overlaying	O: 12 GIS as an Integrating Technology
7	March 17, Homework	Spring Break	-
10	March 24, Homework, Continued	Modeling	O: 20 Read ArcGIS online help on "Introducing model building" (see. p. 519 for navigation to this)
11	March 31, Homework	Projecting Data	O: 13 Projections (Slide Show)
12	April 7, Homework	Geodatabases	O: 14
13	April 14, Homework, Continued	Creating and Editing Features	O: 15-16
14	April 21, Homework	Geocoding	O: 17 Georeferencing (Slide Show)
15	April 28 Homework	Presenting Data	O: 18 - 19