Welcome to GEOG 384 2024!

Principals of the Geospatial Web

This page will evolve along with the class as you learn new skills in Javascript and HTML. Right now it is super basic html, feel free to right click on the page and look at the "Page Source". That's a good indication of what basic html programming looks like!

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Class #1 - August 29th

• Course Outline
• Joing the course discord
• Playcode.io is where we will learn Javascript

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Class #2 - September 3rd

• geojson.io - sandbox tool for creating .geojson formatted geographic information
• W3Schools - another tool for learning how to code
• Playcode.io is where we will learn Javascript
  • Once you have signed up for playcode, you can find the "Basic Javascript" course outline in the link above.
  • Our first learning block will be lessons 1-8 which talk about Variables
• Inclass Exercise:
  1. Right click on this website (or any website of your choosing)
  2. find the option that says something like "View Page Source" - this will vary depending on what browser you are using
  3. Open up the w3schools Basic Html Page
  4. Hit the "Try it yourself" button to open up the code editor
  5. Pase the source code of the page you copied into the left hand side and hit run
  6. Go to A Javascript exercise
  7. look for the < script > tags. Everything inside there is considered Javascript
  8. Try manipulating some javascript. Change up the numbers and mathematical operators
  9. Add another variable like 'a = ' and assign a number to that. Include 'a' in the algebraic operation

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Class #3 - September 5th

• first required reading:
  Keyhole, Google Earth, and 3D Worlds: An Interview with Avi Bar-Zeev
• Learning about the console, here is a quick video that shows its capabilities. Don't worry about not understanding everything in there but for sure you will recognize parts of it!
• Side note - if you want to embed a video on ur html page its super easy. Just choose 'embed' from the share options on YouTube and copy paste the < iframe > tag content right into your .html doc.
  
• Please fill out the Skill check form to help us form groups.

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Class #4 - September 10th

Making your first interactive map!

• Sublime Text 4 Download - we use this program for class examples and instruction in Javascript. There are other programs out there that do the same thing (eg Notepad++) you may use them if you prefer.
• Mapbox - Load a Basic Webmap Example
• Anatomy of a Web Map slide stack

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Class #5 - September 12th

• Talking about Digital Earths
• Practice with the server and Cyberduck

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Class #6 - September 17th

• next set of playcode.io chapters, expected completion Sept 24th:
• MATH: chapter 9 - 24
• STRINGS: chapter 25 - 37
• try adding a favicon to your site using https://favicon.io/
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Class #7 - September 19th

• Intro to Scraping Unit

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Class #8 - September 24th

• Practicing XPath in class on Wikipedia
• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
• Required readings:
• Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right?
• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

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Class #9 - September 26th

• Assignment #1 presentations
• Scraping lecture continues
• Assignment #2 posted to discord by end of day
• Playcode.io next chapters 39 - 48. Quiz upcoming

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Class #10 - October 1st

• Talking about Volunteered Geographic Information
• Next Set of Readings:
1. Goodchild, M.F. 2007: Citizens as Sensors: The world of volunteered geography
2. Goodchild, M.F. and Linna Li 2012: Assuring the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information
3. Fast, V. and C. Rinner 2018: Toward a participatory VGI methodology - crowdsourcing information on regional food assets

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Class #10 - October 3rd

• Discussing the quality of Volunteered Geographic Information
• Quiz Next Week!