Welcome spatial data for GIS

• SPATIAL DATA FOR GIS
  • What is Spatial data?
  • Main types of data
    • Digital Elevation Models (DEM)
    • Land Cover Maps
    • Land Cover Indices
    • Aerial and drone photography
    • Radar data
    • LiDAR data
    • Topographic maps
    • Volunteered geographic information (VGI)
    • Social media and media repositories APIs
    • Census and statistical data
    • Sensor data
  • Sources of data
    • Data sharing and dissemination with OGC webservices
    • Addendum: the importance of controling your data
  • Data sovereignty and licensing
    • Licensing and Usage Rights
    • Software Dependencies and Format Lock-In
    • Incorporating Data Sovereignty into preparedeness planning
  • References
• Data Entry
  • Direct Spatial Data Acquisition
  • Indirect Spatial Data Acquisition
    • Digitising
    • Topological Consistency
    • Spatialising Data
• Common GIS File Formats
  • Vector GIS File Extensions
    • Shapefiles (.shp)
    • Geopackage (.gpkg)
    • Keyhole Markup Language (.kml)
    • GPS eXchange Format (.gpx)
    • Comma Separated Values (.csv)
  • Raster GIS file extensions
    • Tagged Image File Format (.tif)
    • Other Raster and Vector formats