02903nam a2200373 4500 OTLid0000234 MnU 20201105133309.0 m o d s 180907s2014 mnu o 0 0 eng d 9781312778986 MnU eng MnU QA76 Fang, Yiping author Spatial Thinking in Planning Practice An Introduction to GIS Yiping Fang Open Textbook Library Portland State University Library 1 online resource Open textbook library. Chapter 1: Defining a Geographic Information System -- Chapter 2: Coordinate Systems and Projecting GIS Data -- Chapter 3: Topology and Creating Data -- Chapter 4: Mapping People with Census Data -- Chapter 5: Lying with Maps -- Chapter 6: To Standardize or Not to Standardize? -- Chapter 7: Geographic Considerations in Planning Practice. -- Chapter 8: Manipulating GIS Data -- Chapter 9: Raster Data Models -- Chapter 10: The Future of GIS The goals of this textbook are to help students acquire the technical skills of using software and managing a database, and develop research skills of collecting data, analyzing information and presenting results. We emphasize that the need to investigate the potential and practicality of GIS technologies in a typical planning setting and evaluate its possible applications. GIS may not be necessary (or useful) for every planning application, and we anticipate these readings to provide the necessary foundation for discerning its appropriate use. Therefore, this textbook attempts to facilitate spatial thinking focusing more on open-ended planning questions, which require judgment and exploration, while developing the analytical capacity for understanding a variety of local and regional planning challenges. While this textbook provides the background for understanding the concepts in GIS as applicable to urban and regional planning, it is best when accompanied by a hands-on tutorial, which will enable readers to develop an in-depth understanding of the specific planning applications of GIS. In the end of each chapter, we also provided several discussion questions, together with contextual applications through some web links. Attribution-NonCommercial In English. Description based on online resource Computer Science Textbooks Shandas, Vivek author Cordero, Eugenio Arriaga author Open Textbook Library distributor https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/234 Access online version 19638 19638 0 0 lcc 0 0 DL OA 2020-11-05 0 QA76 2020-11-05 https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/234 2020-11-05 EBOOK