Community Geography: GIS in Action English

Contents:

Part 1: Community mapping projects

Module 1: The GIS basics

Exercise: Explore and label community features data for a city visitors map

Module 2: Reducing crime

Case study: Deciding where to increase neighborhood police patrols

Exercise: Geocode crime data to map and analyze robbery hotspots

On your own

Module 3: A war on weeds

Case study: Mapping noxious weeds

Exercise: Use GIS to map a leafy spurge infestation and compute its area

On your own

Module 4: Tracking water quality

Case study: Monitoring seasonal changes on the Turtle River

Exercise: Analyze Turtle River data to identify locations for fish habitat restoration

On your own

Module 5: Investigating point-source pollution

Case study: Identifying potentially harmful landfills

Exercise: Map, query, and analyze neighborhood data to identify high-risk landfills

On your own

Module 6: Getting kids to school

Case study: Who walks and who takes the bus?

Exercise: Use buffers to identify eligible school bus riders

On your own

Module 7: Managing the community forest

Case study: One, two, tree: taking a tree inventory

Exercise: Map and query a tree inventory to find hazardous trees

On your own

Module 8: Selecting the right location

Case study: Using site analysis to develop a wildlife area management plan

Exercise: Perform site selection for a state wildlife area

On your own

Part 2: On your own: project planning

Ask a geographic question

Acquire geographic resources

Explore geographic data

Analyze geographic information

Act on geographic knowledge