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Below you will find Professor Waite’s Trojan course materials and external links to student resources and pages!
PPD 631 – GIS for Policy, Planning, and Development
Location
RGL 219
University of Southern California, Los Angeles Campus
Fridays
August 26 and November 4 – 8:30-5:00
September 16 and October 7 – 8:30-noon
Course Materials
| Course Syllabus | Tips and Tricks |
| Tech Support | Assignments |
| Project Guidelines | Suggestions |
| ArcGIS.com | ESRI News For State and Local Governments Newsletter |
Lectures and Presentations
Slideshows & Weekly Videos
(Note: tutorials are listed in book order and will not be presented in this order)
| Slideshows | Videos | Slideshows | Videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIS Tutorial 1 – Basic Workbook (and Ch. 1) | Introduction (Ch. 1) | Map Design (Ch. 2) | Basic Mapping (Ch. 2) |
| GIS Projection (Ch. 3) | Projections (Ch. 3) | Data (Ch. 4 & 5) | Data (Ch. 4 & 5) |
| Map Types (Ch. 6 & 9) | Map Types (Ch. 6 & 9) | Working with Data Tables (Ch. 7) | Editing Data (Ch. 7) |
| Address Mapping (Ch. 8) | Geocoding (Ch. 8) | GPS Point Mapping (Ch. 10) | GPS Mapping (Ch. 10) |
| Editing (Ch. 11) | Editing Data (Ch. 11) | Attribute & Location Queries (Ch. 12 & 13) | Selection (Ch. 12 & 13) |
| Using Geoprocessing Tools (Ch. 14) | Geoprocessing (Ch. 14) | Creating Geodatabases & Aerial Photography (Ch. 15 & 17) | Geodatabases and Aerial Photography (Ch. 15 & 17) |
| Joining Boundaries (Ch. 16) | Spatial Joins (Ch. 16) | Creating Reports (Ch. 18) | Reports and Graphs (Ch. 18) |
| Sharing Work & Publishing Maps (Ch. 19 & 20) | Sharing and Publishing Maps (Ch. 20) | Project Examples Student Presentation: Liana Elliot | Conversation with Mike Jenkins Conversation with Mike McDaniel (Ranchos) Pavement Management |
Other Presentations
Data and Resource Links
Data Sources
| Simply Analytics (create a new account using your USC email) and instructions | Instructions for getting data from ArcGIS Online | Notes for Batch Geocoding Service |
| Getting Census Data Instructions | LA County GIS Data Portal | Mapping LA (from the LA Times – includes neighborhoods) |
| LA City Street Data | LA County street data (Caution – 37 MB!) | California Zip Codes |
| LA City Zip Codes | Cities of LA County | Air Resources Board data |
| Earthworks (Stanford data portal to many datasets) | http://www.gisportal.com/ | http://www.pasda.psu.edu/ (Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access) |
| Cal-Atlas | Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) | NationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons |
| USGS National Mapping Information | GIS – Stack Exchange | GIS Data Depot (State of California data portal) |
| 2000 Census TIGER Line data through ESRI: (Does not come with a projection file) | USGS aerial imagery, DEMs, etc. (the National Map) | LA County Assessor |
| SCAG Data and GIS Resource Link | Historic Aerials | UCSB Aerial Photography Library |
Resources
| Understanding Esri credits | How to download Census shapefiles | Esri’s Maps We Love |
| GIS resources list | Harvard GIS resources (including cartography, data and analysis | Prioritizing background |
| Setting GIS priorities | Enhance shapefile creator tool | Link to other USGS maps & aerial photos (not data) |
| Getting street data from StreetMap USA (Word document) | CommunityViz software | – |
Other GIS Links
| ESRI Tapestry data | David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | ESRI Virtual Campus- Home Page |
| FGDC data security guidelines | GISjobs.com–Your One Stop GIS Shop! | Historic World Maps – about.com |
| Historical Map Web Sites | Library of Congress Map Collections Home Page | Map Projections Poster and Esri’s map projections story map |
| NASA’s Visible Earth | “Lost” map | The Mercator fallacy |
| The political map we keep seeing | – | – |
Past Projects
| Fall 2021 (files to be added) | Spring 2021 |
| Spring 2020 | Fall 2019 |
| Spring 2019 | Fall 2018 |
| Spring 2018 | Spring 2017 |
| Spring 2016 | Fall 2015 |
| Spring 2015 | Fall 2014 |
| Spring 2013 | Fall 2012 |
“Don’t copy.“
Dr. Robert P. Biller, 2009