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Week 5 — Working with Vector Data

Presentation Slides

  • Tuesday — Working with Vector Data — Creating vector data; Digitizing and editing; Attribute tables and schemas; Saving to disk: GeoPackage and shapefile

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In-Class Practice

Hands-On Practice

Digitize Your Home with Snapping and the Vertex Tool

This session has its own step-by-step guide: what you need, an overview, the click-by-click QGIS walkthrough, what to hand in, and the snags that usually come up.

Open the Week 5 hands-on guide →

Self-check quizzes — not graded; open them on a phone or laptop as often as you like:

  • Who Drew That Line? — Choosing a geometry type, digitizing at a scale the data can support, and what a field's type costs you later.

Lab Assignment

Lab 4 — Changing, Editing, and Fixing GIS Data

Due Saturday at 11:59 pm on Learning Suite.

Reading Quiz

This week's reading: GIS Fundamentals, Chapter 4 (Maps, Data Entry, and Editing).

Quiz 4 — GPS, Part 2 on Learning Suite: open book. Due Saturday at 11:59 pm. See Reading Quizzes.

Note

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