Web GIS and Web Mapping

Web GIS and Web Mapping

This course entails generating custom built GIS applications and solutions through the web by use of GIS (Geographic information systems). Web GIS provides many more opportunities to provide broader access to your authoritative GIS data, enabling you to move your system of record to a system of engagement that facilitates everything from self-service mapping to making better decisions. It makes GIS more accessible, more affordable, and more pervasive. It amplifies the value of GIS, and the role of GIS professionals.

What you will run:-

• Programming Languages for Web GIS
• Open Source Web GIS Platforms
• ArcGIS Online
• GIS Cloud
• OpenStreetMap
• Introducing Google Maps API
• Introducing MapBox
• Web GIS Career
• Desktop GIS vs Web GIS
• Key Elements of Web GIS
• Basic Steps of Web GIS
• Model of Web GIS
• GeoServer Features and Benefits
• How to Install GeoServer
• Export OSM Map
• Add Map Note in OSM
• Query Feature in OSM
• How to Create GIS Cloud Account
• GIS Cloud User Interface
• Dynamic Web GIS Interface developed by using GIS Cloud

Course layout

• Introductions to concepts of  GIS and web mapping
• Web Mapping Technologies
• Designing web services and maps
• Reading Data from various Data source
•  Processing spatial data with Open Source Software
• Drawing and querying maps on the server using Web Map Service
• Building tiled maps with Free Open Source Software
• Putting layers together by the use of a web mapping API
• Google Maps API
• Web based data editing
• Publishing maps using open source softwares (Geoserver)

Requirements

• Computer application basics
• A laptop, 4GB RAM minimum, i-5/Dual Core , 64 bit OS

• IT/ Computer Scientists
• Urban Planners
• Agricultural Scientists
• NGO/Civil Society Employees
• Geoscientists
• Draftsmen
• Architectural Students/Architects

Assessment:

After completing and passing the course successfully, you will be able to obtain an Accredited Certificate of Achievement.

At the end of the course, you will be required to do a real-life Project. Your evaluation will ascertain wheteher you qualify for a certificate of Technical Competence. It is important to note that some course assessments lead to the award of an accredited certificate by the Ministry of Education and Sports of Uganda