Lecture-10 - Managing Projections

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Topics

• GIScience - Geographic and Projected Coordinate Systems
• Data Management -
  • Transforming Coordinate Systems
  • Working with Dates and Strings

Readings

1. Maher, Margaret. 2013. “Defining Projections and Their Parameters; Adding x,y Data; Analyzing the Shape of Buffers.” Pp. 167-182 in Lining up data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. (Electronic Reserves)
2. Maher, Margaret. 2013. “Identifying the Projected Coordinate System.” Pp. 35-55 in Lining up data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. (Electronic Reserves)
3. Tutorial: Chapter 5, part, pp. 163-180
4. R4DS:
   • Print - Chapters 11 and 13 or
   • Web - Chapters 14 and 16 (Link)

Note: Read these readings in the order specified here.

Assignments

Due Before Lecture

• From Lecture-09 - Lab-08 - Georeferenced Demographic Data
• eTicket-09

Due Before Next Lecture

• From Final Project - WP-03
• Lab-09 - Managing Projections

Due in Two Lectures

• PS-04 - Managing Projections