Lab 1
Install
Basic manipulation of spatial data
- Open and visualize Polygons (
houston_tract_pop_emp_wgs84.shp)
- Zoom
- Inspect
- Attribute table
- Open tabular data (
houston_counties.csv)
- Layering with other sources of data (
major_hwys.shp)
- Adding a background from the web
- Adding a point dataset from a csv file (
hou_firms.csv)
GIS operations
- Relational joins (join counties to tracts)
- Projections (tracts to NAD83 –>
tract_nad83.shp)
- Spatial joins (firms to polygons –>
tract_pop_emp_wgs84.shp)
Presentation and export
- Selecting and exporting subsets of a layer ( –>
downtown_tracts.shp)
- Making pretty maps for publication
Exercises
- Create a layer of tracts that contain firms
References