KGLM 2150 - GIS - Intermediate for GLM

Thanks to its spatial and visual approach and its reliable analysis capacity, Geographic Information System (GIS) can be very helpful in many fields, as urban planning, city management or decision making.

Thanks to the recent explosion in the development of Open Data, geographic information availability significantly increases, enabling data acquisition all over the world, even at a large scale (small area). Simultaneously, free and open source cartography and GIS software, e.g. QGIS and Magrit, enable to make spatial analysis and maps from anywhere, in a short time and at very low coast.

Despite that consideration, GIS should not be considered as a technology. GIS practice has to be managed as a project issue, and you (GLM student) are the project manager. Thus, each result (map or computation) obtained has to be approved at each step of the process.

During the first GIS course at the first semester (“Mapping Society”), you learnt how to follow, step by step, a GIS process, in order to map some statistical socio-economic variables at Metropolitan Atlanta (Georgia, US).

In this course, you will learn to follow, step by step, a GIS spatial analysis process, in the same geographic area.

The "introduction to GIS" class has to have been followed in S1 of “Governing large Metropolis." If not, basic skills of GIS practice have to be acquired (basic concepts of GIS, how to manage geographic information, how create a map including different type of data - geographic, statistic, image).

6 x 2 hours sessions

Apply in an individual work the same process to make a spatial analysis, at Atlanta or at another city, about one issue studied in class or about another issue.

All the steps and results we followed during the course have to be present.

Expected deliverables:

• 1 short report (3000 words at least)
• 1 map at least

NB1: the assessment grid of criteria will be given during the course.