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Part I: Spatial Information and Database Management Introduction to the Course, Oracle, and SQLplus The 'Marriage' of Planners and Data

Relational Database Management, Geospatial Data Handling One-to-Many Relations - Grouping and Aggregation Advanced SQL Subqueries and Complex joins

Worboys , Michael F. GIS: A Computing Perspective. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. Pp. 45-67. Trimble, J. Harvey, Jr., and David Chappell. A Visual Introduction to SQL. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. Chapters 1, 3, and 4. Trimble and Chappell. Chapters 5, 7, and 8.

Trimble and Chappell. Chapter 6. Zoning variance database help pages Ferreira, Joseph Jr. "Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public and Non-profit Agencies that Serve Them." Forthcoming Chapter 7 in MIT Press Book from Spring 1996 DUSP colloquium on High Technology and Low-Income Communities. Top-down and bottom-up strategies for cleaning official

Distributed Access to Parcel-Level City Databases

administrative databases Using lookup tables to interpret read-only city data Strategies for encoding, accumulating, and utilizing local knowlege

The Zoning Variance Database & Advanced Query Construction Due: Problem Set 1 Referential Integrity and Relational Database Design Querying Oracle from a Client Application and Databases on Web

Trimble and Chappell. Chapters 9 and 11.

Worboys. Pp. 68-84 (Optional: pp. 84-95).

Part II: Integrating Mapping and DBMS

Adding Z and Integrating Mapping with RDBMS Tools I Due: Problem Set 2

Flowerdew, R. "Spatial data integration." Chap. 24 in Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications. Vol. 1. Edited by D. J. Maguire, M. F. Goodchild, and D. W. Rhind. 1991. [In Reader] Craig. "Why we couldn't get the data we wanted." Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 4, 2 (1992). [In Reader]

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Integrating Mapping with RDBMS Tools II Examination Using ArcView Spatial Analyst Using ArcView Spatial

Analyst with Oracle Data Due: Problem Set 3

LEC # TOPICS 11.524 - GIS Project Introduction to Course and Project 14 Project: Implementing a Neighborhood Information System

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Metadata and MIT's Geodata Tool ESRI's Spatial Database Engine Serving Maps on the Web On-site Visit and Meeting with Client Meeting with Consultant Project Work On-site Work with Client Project Work

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/index.html http://web.mit.edu/sde/www/help/index.html

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http://www.esri.com/ http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcsde/index.h http://www.esri.com/software/arcims

LEC # TOPICS 23 Project Work Internal Project Presentation 24 Project Due: Implementing a Neighborhood Information System On-Site Project Presentation Challenges, Opportunities, and Next Steps

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