Class #1 - August 28

• Course Description
• Skill test questionnaire

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Class #2 - September 02

• Invite
• In-Class Exercise - Mapbox GL JS:
  1. Create an account with Mapbox
  2. Have a quick look at what Mapbox GL JS is
  3. The most basic example. Display a map on a webpage. Follow along with instructor
  4. Try copy/pasting another example
  • try changing some numbers like "center: [-74.5, 40] " or "zoom: 9"
  • you will quickly figure out that you have to be pretty careful what you change otherwise the site will break, don't worry, you will start to understand this soon!
• Benn Jordan's video on Flock AI cameras

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Class #3 - September 04

• Lecture 1, 2
• In class exercise - Basic website stuff with w3 Schools
1. head over to w3 Schools
2. Create an account or sign into your existing one - this allows you to save your work while on the site
3. Head to HTML Introduction
4. Follow along with instructors

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Class #4 - September 09

• Add drop date, groups released and Assignment #1 (probably)
• HTML Structure Exercise here

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Class #5 - September 11

In class exercise 1

1. Go to geojson.io
2. Use this example to load a polygon, copy it to Sublime text.be VERY careful what parts of the page you are changing.
3. copy your geojson into the .html you saved. be VERY careful what parts of the page you are changing.
4. Save and open your .html in the browser

Articles (please note these links may only work at McGill or on the VPN:

• Crampton, Jeremy (2008) Keyhole, Google Earth and 3D Worlds
• Goodchild, Michael et al (2012) Next-generation Digital Earths

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Class #6 - September 16

• Continuing lecture on digital earths, tile systems
• Assignment #1 released today
  • Instructions
  • ZIP files

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Class #7 - September 18

• Can you figure out how to do a shape with the middle cut out? Feel free to inspect the page. Might be interesting to include in your assignment #1

• Continuing lecture on digital earths, tile systems

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Class #8 - September 23

• Continuing lecture on digital earths, tile systems

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Class #9 - September 25

• Start of lecture on scraping
• Articles (please note these links may only work at McGill or on the VPN:
• Jaychandran et al. (2023) Traversing the Ethical Landscape of Scraping or AI
• Webscraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

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Class #12 - October 7th

• Assignment #2 instructions

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Class #13 - October 9th

• Start of lecture on Volunteered Geographic Information
• Articles (please note these links may only work at McGill or on the VPN:
• Goodchild, M.F. 2007 Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography
• Goodchild, M.F. 2012 Assuring the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information
• Fast V. & Rinner C. 2018 Towards a Participatory VGI Methodology: Crowdsourcing Information on Regional Food Assets

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Class #14 - October 21st

• Continuing lecture on Volunteered Geographic Information

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Class #15 - October 23rd

• Ian guest lectures on security, data brokers etc.

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Class #16 - October 28th

• Quiz and Assignment #2 presentations

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Class #17 - October 30th

• Recap of quiz, Assignment #2 presentations
• Continuing lecture on Volunteered Geographic Information