Instructor: Bo Zhao, 206.685.3846 or zhaobo@uw.edu
| Due: Dec 12th, by 11:59pm | Points Available = 150 |
The final project is a major component of this course. Each student group is expected to develop a web gis application. Your final projects are expected to be published online, and the codes are expected to be shared on GitHub in order to contribute to both the open-source community and academia. Each group will need to choose one from the templates listed below for your final project. In principal, each group will have a unique template to build upon their project so that there would be a diversity in the final project. Therefore, we encourage to connect with your group members as early as possible, since groups that make decisions later will have few options to choose from.
The final project should satisfy the following items:
Host your project on github. By doing so, your project can be visited via a url link such as [username].github.io/[repo_name]. (5pts)
your web GIS application should be based on any of the templates (e.g., geocoding, turf based spatial functions, sorting, etc.) that was introduced in Week 7 to 11. If you want to build your final project upon other templates, please contact the Instructor to approve your request. (15pts)
on your web GIS application, please also incorporate a) legend, title, and b) sidebar, toolbar, or console panel if/when necessary.
readme.md file and save it in the root of the final project repository. This description must be no less than 800 words. In the repository, please describe the web map. Your description needs to include, but not limited to, the following items: (40pts)
readme.md file should be well-formatted and free of grammatical errors (3pts)Geospatial Data sources that you may find helpful
If you need help in finding the data you want to use for your project, please feel free to reach out to your TA.
Due by the end of week 8 (15 PTS)Please share your final project proposal on this discussion board. A proposal only needs to be shared once by one of your group members. In the proposal, please indicate what you want to make by the end of this quarter, the targeting audience, the available datasets, the required multimedia (e.g., texts, images, videos, etc) if applicable, and the functions. It would be great if you can find one or two digital geographies-related projects that you can learn from. It will give the instructor and TAs a better idea of how to help you. The proposal needs to have at least 300 words and one or two screenshots of the available projects that you want to learn from. Once a project proposal is shared, I welcome any suggestions if you have, the TAs and the instructor will participate in the discussion too.
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Due by the end of week 9 (10pts)Data processing is always an important step for creating web GIS applications. Based on past experiences, students may find themselves spending significant amount of time on processing the spatial dataset before they could use it in the proposed web GIS project. Therefore, by the end of week 9, we expect you to have your dataset properly cleaned and processed, so that you could spend the rest of the time working on the coding part of the project. Besides providing the cleaned data, you should also write a few sentences to describe how you cleaned the data and why the data processing steps you take are necessary or beneficial to your final project.
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Academics often attend conferences where they share their discoveries and browse the work of others to gain new ideas and offer feedback. We will hold a final presentation meeting during this week, each group is expected to present the final project in 8 minutes. After each group presents their project, there will be a 3-minute Q&A session during which other groups would ask questions or offer feedbacks. Each group is required to speak at least twice during the Q&A sessions (i.e., ask questions or offer feedbacks after two different presentations). 20 pts will be for the presentation and 5 pts for each question or piece of feedback offered.
To submit your final project, you will need to share the url link of your final project’s GitHub repository to a dedicated final project submission tab on Canvas by the end of Week 11 on Tuesday (Dec 12th) by 11:59 pm.
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Note: The requirements to the project may be slightly changed according the progress of this course. The final requirements are subject to the instructor’s notification.