GIS-01 Introduction to Location Data

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Last updated: 27 Mar, 2023
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1. Introduction to Location Data

In this exercise, you will review a number of GIS-related sites, and prepare for later modules by downloading some spatial data.

1.1. Review sites and download data

  1. in AppStream, open the Chrome browser and look at the following sites, to give you some ideas about location data and how it’s used:

    1. https://www.evri.com/find-a-parcelshop#/

    2. https://www.mapnificent.net/london/#12/51.5005/-0.1283/900/51.5005/-0.1283

    3. https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/?_ga=2.146605168.596997309.1679928706-147898252.1679928706

  2. Go to this site https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=NE/NationalParksEngland&Mode=spatial , and download the National Parks data to your Home Folder as a shapefile

  3. Go to this site https://data.bathhacked.org/datasets/house-price-paid-data-land-registry , and download the House Prices data to your Home Folder as CSV (Comma Separated Values)

  4. See if you can find location data relevant to your professional field by Googling - if you can, download it to your Home Folder

  5. If any of the data is zipped, unzip it to a location in your Home Folder ready for use

We will use the data you found in later modules.