Geography 4150/5150. Teaching Assistant: Chenjun Ling Office: McEniry 427 Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-4:40pm

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1 Geography 4150/5150 Spatial Database Design with GIS and GPS (4 CREDITS) Lecture: T,TH 11:00-12:15 -- McEniry 420 Lab: Thursday 2:00 4:45pm -- McEniry 431 Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth C. Delmelle Office: McEniry 419 Phone: Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00-11:00; Thursday 1:30 2:30; Or by appointment Teaching Assistant: Chenjun Ling Office: McEniry 427 Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-4:40pm Course Overview: The first half of this course, prior to the midterm will be dedicated to database design (with an emphasis on relational databases), relational database theory, and structured query language (SQL). The second part of the course will transition into spatial and geodatabases including spatial queries, geodatabase design, and geographic data models.. My learning objectives for you in this course are: To gain an understanding of database theory (emphasis on relational & some object-oriented databases) Develop the skills to design an effective database Develop the skills to implement your database design Gain some proficiency in the writing of SQL queries Become proficient in geodatabase design Course Materials: Textbooks: Stephens, R., Beginning Database Design Solutions Stephens, R., Plew, R., Jones, A. Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours. Software: We will use a variety of software in this course. There are a number of database options for learning to write queries, and this knowledge can easily be applied to whatever database you find yourself working with in the future (Oracle, PostGRE, SQLServer, etc.) For this course, we will use MS Access & MySQL (Free!). For classes using this software, you will have to bring your own laptop with the software installed (works on Macs) we can discuss further as we get closer to this topic..

2 Course Requirements: Labs: A series of lab exercises will be assigned throughout the semester. All data for the labs will be either available on the course drive (S:\COAS\geog\LABS\Geog4150) or on Moodle and all lab instructions will be downloadable from the course website on Moodle. Most labs will be due one week following their assigned data unless otherwise indicated (the due date will always be marked on the instructions). Late assignments will be penalized as follows: Up to 1 day late (24h): -25% 1 2 days late: -50% More than 2 days late: No Longer Accepted Final Project: Each student will complete a final project that will consist of a design of a spatial database more details will be provided later in the semester. Graduate Students: Graduate students will be assigned several additional readings and will provide a 1-2 page summary of each topic according to the schedule below. Grading System: The grading system is summarized in the following table. Task Number Grade Points for Grade Points for Undergraduate Graduate Quiz 1 15 points total 15 points total Exams 2 40 points each 40 points each Labs points each points each Final Project 1 50 points total 50 points total Article Summaries 6 NA 5 points each/30 points total Undergraduate Scale: A: %, B: %, C: %, D: %, F <60% Graduate Scale: A: %, B: %, C: %, U < 79.5% Class Behavior: (1) Please turn off and put away your cell phone before entering the classroom (2) Do not use the computers during lectures to browse the internet, check your facebook account, do homework for other classes (or this class), or play games. This is very distracting for me and for your classmates around you. Thank you. Ethics: If you are contemplating an ethical failure please read the code of student academic integrity: so you can plan for the consequences. Students are encouraged to work on their own, yet helping each other understanding the concepts is fine. In other words, you may work with other students on lab assignments but you may not copy projects or written answers to questions from another student. Students with disabilities: UNC Charlotte is committed to access to education. If you have a disability and need academic accommodations, please provide a letter of accommodation from Disability Services

3 early in the semester. For more information on accommodations, contact the Office of Disability Services at or visit their office at Fretwell 230. Tentative Schedule Subject to Updates Please Follow on Moodle. Week Date Lectures & Labs Readings 1 Thurs Jan 8 LEC 1: Course Introduction\Overview of Databases Stephens Ch.1 Jan 8 Jan 13 LEC 2: Database Design Fundamentals\ Relational Databases Stephens Ch. 2&3 2 Jan 15 LEC 3: Getting Started with MS Access, basic SQL queries Jan 15 LAB 1: Access Queries 3 Jan 20 Jan 22 LEC 4: Data Modeling with E-R Diagrams E-R Diagrams Cont. Stephens Ch. 3 Riccardi Ch. 4 (Moodle) Jan 22 LAB 2: E-R Diagrams Jan 27 LEC 5: ER to Relational Mapping Stephens Ch. 15 Jan 29 Jan 29 Feb 3 Feb 5 Feb 5 LEC 6: Insert, Update, Delete Queries in Access Quiz 1 LEC 7: Normalization LAB 3: ER to Relational; Implementation in Access LEC 8: Normalization Cont. LAB 4: Normalization Stephens Ch. 7 Feb 10 LEC 9: Introduction to MySQL Stephens Ch. 17; Stephens et al. Feb 12 Feb 12 Feb 17 Feb 19 LEC 10: Fun with SQL Cont. LEC 11: SQL Cont. LEC 12: SQL Wrap Up LAB 5: SQL with MySQL Feb 19 LAB 6: MySQL Part 2 Feb 24 Feb 26 Feb 26 Mar 3 Mar 5 Mar 5 Mar 10 Mar 12 Mar 12 Mar 17 Mar 19 Midterm Exam Review Midterm Exam No Class Spring Break No Class Spring Break LEC 13: Spatial Databases, Object Orientation, Spatial SQL LEC 14: Introduction to Geodatabase LAB 7: Geodatabase I LEC 15: Geodatabase Cont., Introduction to ArcSDE Enterprise GDB presentation & workshop by ESRI Calkins (1996) Bedard (1999) Egenhofer and Frank (1992)

4 Mar 20 LAB 8: Geodatabase 2 Mar 24 LEC 16: GIS Data Modeling; ArcGIS Diagrammer Nyerges GISDBP ch.1 Mar 26 Mar 27 Mar 31 April 2 April 3 April 7 April 9 LEC 17: Errors, Uncertainty and Data Quality LEC 18: Rasters LEC 19: Networks LEC 20: Terrain LAB 9: Geodatabase Diagrammer Lab 10: Working with Rasters and Networks LEC 19: Cartographic Representations ArcGIS Diagrammer Manual (Moodle) April 10 Lab 11: GDB Goodies April 14 Exam Review\Catch Up 14 April 16 Exam 2 15 April 17 April 21 April 23 April 24 No New Lab Work on Final Projects Work on Final Projects No Lecture AAG Meeting. Work on Final Projects No New Lab, Work on Final Projects 16 April 28 Work on Final Projects 17 May 7 Monday, MAY 5 th 11:00am Final Project Presentations Graduate Readings March 12 th Egenhofer, M.J. (1992) Why not SQL! International Journal of Geographic Information Systems 6, March 19 th Akinyemi, F. (2010) A conceptual poverty mapping data model. Transactions in GIS 14, Buliung, R.N. and Kanaroglou,P.S. (2004) On design and implementation of an object-relational spatial database for activity/travel behavior research. Journal of Geographical Systems 6,

5 March 26 th Girres,J-F, Touya, G. (2010) Quality assessment of the French OpenStreetMap Dataset. Transactions in GIS 14(4), Brisaboa, N., Luaces, M., Rodriguez, A., Seco, D. (2014) An inconsistency measure of spatial data sets with respect to topological constraints. April 2 nd Friis-Christensen, A., Jensen, C., Nytun, J.P., Skogan, D. (2005) A conceptual schema language for the management of multiple representations of geographic entities. Transactions in GIS 9, Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. (2012) The annotation process in OpenStreetMap. Transactions in GIS 16, April 14 Choe, B-N, Kim, Y-G (2007) Framework and workflows for spatial database generalization. Transactions in GIS 11, April 21 Hendriks,P., Dessers,E., van Hootegem, G. (2012) Reconsidering the definition of a spatial data infrascturcture. International Journal of Geographical Information ScienceI 26,