Week 7 Activity — Data Source Scavenger Hunt

Lecture · Day 12 · Tuesday of Week 7 — Finding Spatial Data and Web Services

Not graded.

In the Finding Spatial Data deck, "Data Source Scavenger Hunt."

Setup. The Data Source Scavenger Hunt tab of the class Google Sheet, the CCE 114 Geomatics Master Spreadsheet (the same workbook as the devotional sign-up). Its columns are Name, U.S. State Name, and Repository URL, then one column per dataset type to tick: state boundary, counties, cities, highways and freeways, local roads, rivers, lakes, voting districts, school districts, national parks, state parks, elevation, cell phone towers, historical sites, LDS churches, and landmarks. Clear last semester's rows. The slide links straight to the tab.

Run. Groups of two or three pick a U.S. state someone is connected to. Five minutes to find its statewide GIS portal, enter the group's names, the state, and the portal URL, and tick every dataset type the portal offers, noticing format and license as they go. Five minutes of reporting out: one surprise per group. Not graded.