Course Catalog 2014-2015
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Course Catalog 2014-2015

PLA-43116 Web-based GIS Applications, 4 cr

Person responsible

Tarmo Lipping

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Assignment



 



 
 3 h/week
 2 h/week

+3 h/week
+2 h/week
 15 h/per
PLA-43116 2014-01  

Requirements

Passed exam and excercises

Learning Outcomes

Students will get acquainted to the technologies of Web-based GIS applications. After completing the course the students are able to set up a Web GIS Server and a related geodatabase solution, to publish geospatial Web services and implement Web applications using these serveices on desktop as well as mobile platforms. Both open source tools and environments as well as commercial solutions (offered by ESRI) will be introduced.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Technologies of Web-based GIS applications and related OGC standards (WMS, WFS, WCS etc.)     
2. GIS Server solutions (GeoServer and ArcGIS for Server) and GIS databases (PostgreSQL). Publishing GIS data and Geoprocessing tools.      
3. Implementing client side GIS applications on desktop as well as mobile platforms     
4. Geoportals and Mashup applications     
5. Application areas of GIS applications. GIS applications in business and public organizations     

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Web GIS: Principles and Applications   Pinde Fu, Julin Sun         No    English  
Lecture slides   Web-GIS Application   Tarmo Lipping         No    English  
Other literature   GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Application   Davis, Scott         No    English  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
PLA-43116 Web-based GIS Applications, 4 cr SGNP-3110 Web Based GIS Applications, 4 cr  
PLA-43116 Web-based GIS Applications, 4 cr PLA-43110 Web Based GIS Applications, 4 cr  

More precise information per implementation

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PLA-43116 2014-01        

Documents

PLA43116.pdf

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