USC – Students

USC Students Page

Below you will find Professor Waite’s Trojan course materials and external links to student resources and pages!

My.usc.edu
Dean Bob Biller’s 10 Non-Commandments on careers

PPD 631 – GIS for Policy, Planning, and Development

Location

University of Southern California, Los Angeles Campus – VPD 112

Fridays

January 16 and March 27: 8:30-5:00

February 6 and March 6: 9:00-12:30

Course Materials

Course SyllabusTips and Tricks
Tech SupportAssignments
Project GuidelinesESRI News For State and Local Governments Newsletter

Lectures and Presentations

Welcome Presentation
Slideshows & Weekly Videos

Course YouTube channel

(Note: These are for the old version of the book and are a supplement to the YouTube channel)

SlideshowsVideos
GIS Tutorial 1 – Basic Workbook 
(and Ch. 1)		Map Design 
(Ch. 2)		See below
GIS Projection 
(Bonus)		Data 

Map Types 
Working with Data Tables 
Address Mapping GPS Point Mapping 
Editing Attribute & Location Queries 
Using Geoprocessing Tools Creating Geodatabases & Aerial Photography 
Joining Boundaries Creating Reports 
Sharing Work & Publishing Maps Project Examples
Chapter 2
Bonus – projections
Chapters 3 & 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapters 12 & 13
Chapter 14
Chapters 15 & 17
Chapter 16
Chapter 19
Chapters 20
Other Presentations
Pavement Management
 Extra stuff
Public SafetyJenny Gough’s presentation on public works & aerial photography
Jonathon’s cartography presentationElection presentation
Nick’s LA County Regional Planning presentation–
Data Sources
Southern California Sustainability HubCalifornia State Geo PortalLiving Atlas
California Air Resources Board dataLA County GIS Data HubFederal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
Earthworks (Stanford data portal to many datasets)Core Logic GIS PortalPennsylvania Spatial Data Access
USGS National Mapping InformationLA County AssessorNationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons
USGS aerial imagery, DEMs, etc. (the National Map)SCAG Data and GIS Resource LinkUCSB Aerial Photography Library
Historic Aerials

Resources
Understanding Esri creditsSetting GIS prioritiesEsri’s Maps We Love
CommunityViz softwareEsri free online lessonsLink to other USGS maps & aerial photos (not data)
Geospatial Concepts (Johns Hopkins)
Other GIS Links
ESRI Tapestry dataDavid Rumsey Historical Map CollectionGIS Resources Knowledge Archive
FGDC data security guidelinesGISjobs.com–Your One Stop GIS Shop!The political map we keep seeing (video)
Historical Map Web SitesLibrary of Congress Map Collections Home PageMap Projections Poster and Esri’s map projections story map
NASA’s Visible Earth“Lost” mapThe Mercator fallacy
GIS Day
https://player.vimeo.com/video/286125712
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Past Projects

“Don’t copy.“

Dr. Robert P. Biller, 2009
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