{"id":12,"date":"2021-09-09T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/?p=12"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:35:00","slug":"gis-geographic-information-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/gis-geographic-information-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"GIS (Geographic Information Systems)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we were joined by Kristen Kurland who walked us through what GIS is, and how it works.  Our first project will be to create a study of a &#8220;place&#8221;, and the first assignment will use GIS tools to assist us in our analysis of the site.   Below are some resources from today&#8217;s lecture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links from today&#8217;s lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.cmu.edu\/courses\/25369\/files\/folder\/GIS%20Lecture\">Slides from Lecture [Canvas]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wprdc.org\/\">Western PA Regional Data Center (wpdrc.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasda.psu.edu\/\">Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (pasda.psu.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghpa.gov\/innovation-performance\/gis\">City of Pittsburgh Planning Department<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historicpittsburgh.org\/pittsburgh-maps\">Historic Pittsburgh Maps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GIS Software \/ Online Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/index.html\">ArcGIS Online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html\">ArcGIS Map Viewer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiemellon.maps.arcgis.com\/\">ArcGIS Pro<\/a> (log in with your Andrew ID)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/home\/\">ESRI Living Atlas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/\">ESRI Story Maps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cmucreatelab.org\/about\">CREATE Lab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthtime.org\/\">Earthtime.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaarta.com\/\">Kaarta<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"more-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/gis-geographic-information-systems\/\"><span class=\"more-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"greenlet_layout":[]},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/53-558\/f2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}