Block 3

Data Backends II

Lecture: Data architechtures & formats

Slides:

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References:

• Chapter 3 of the GDS book (in progress) covers traditional and more modern approaches to represent Geography as data.
• Kitchin, R. (2014). The data revolution: Big data, open data, data infrastructures and their consequences. Sage.
• Maptiler documents on map tiles and map vector tiles.

Lab: Creating, manipulating, and integrating web geospatial data

Notes:

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Other

• R’s sf cheatsheet is a good reference for manipulation operations/spatial predicates with simple features (see also a similar list in Python’s geopandas)

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