GIST 2180 Geospatial Web Applications

This course involves the design, creation, configuration, and optimization of geospatial servers and applications to deliver content across the Internet. The student will be introduced to the design of geospatial servers and maintenance of basic geospatial web services and applications. It includes an introduction to browser and mobile-enabled interactive applications. Previous experience taking online courses and experience using computers strongly encouraged. (3 lect., 3 lab)

Credits

4 credits

Major Topics

• Introduction to web-based geospatial technologies
• Publishing data resources to the web
• Geospatial web applications
• Hosted feature layers
• Web application development

Outcomes

In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:

1. Build basic web-based geospatial applications.

2. Perform customization of web-based geospatial applications.

3. Modify a basic interactive web-based geospatial user interface.

4. Publish geospatial resources as a web service.