City of Cambridge Data

In August 2012, the Geospatial Centre received updates to the City of Cambridge dataset. In addition, new building footprint and landuse files were also received.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/Cambridge.html

New and Updated GIS Tutorials

The Geospatial Centre has created new GIS tutorials:

Google Earth II: Create a tour with Google Earth: Create a placemark by writing a simple Keyhole Markup Language (KML) code, overlay an image, create and record a tour and share the KML files and tour with others.
 
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/documents/CreateatourwithGoogleEarth_2012.pdf

On-line Interactive Mapping Made Easy: Learn to create an online interactive
map without needing to be a GIS expert, or needing any software to install.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/documents/OnlineInteractiveMapMadeEasy_2012docx.pdf

 

 

Making a choropleth map with Google Fusion Tables: Choropleth map is a thematic map based on predefined aerial units. Google Fusion Tables makes it easy to create an online interactive choropleth map and share it with others.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/documents/MakingachoroplethmapwithGoogleFusionTables_2012.pdf

The Geospatial Centre has updated the following GIS tutorials:

BatchGeo: Geocode address and postal codes, then display each point location as a marker in Google Earth or Google Map.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/documents/BatchGeoUpdate_2012.pdf

ArcGIS.com: Add a CSV, TXT and shapefiles into ArcGIS.com, edit their layer properties and create and share an interactive map.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/documents/ArcGIS.com_Shapefiles.pdf

Quantum GIS: Quantum GIS, often called QGIS, is an open source GIS desktop application that can be installed on various operating systems, such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu), and Unix.  

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/QGIS_2012.zip

Geocoding by Street Address in BatchGeo

BatchGeo accurately geocodes street addresses or postal codes, converting a simple table into a geospatial record; then displaying each point location as a marker in Google Map or Google Earth.


The Geospatial Centre has created an updated tutorial for using BatchGeo:

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/tutorials.html

360 degree view of Geospatial Centre

You can now view the Gespatial Centre virtually in a 360 degree photo.




Geospatial Centre at Dana Porter Library in Canada