GEOG371: Web Mapping

Instructor: Bo Zhao, zhao2@oregonstate.edu | Office Hours: TBD or by appt. @WLKN 210

Lecture: MWF 0800 - 0850 @WLKN 210 | Lab: Th 0800 to 1150 @WLKN 210

Catalog course description: WEB MAPPING (4).

Concepts and techniques of web programming, digital storytelling, online project management, and web-based cartographic principles for developing, evaluating, and using web maps. Lec/lab. PREREQS: GEOG 201

Welcome to GEOG371:Web Mapping 🌎! This course introduces concepts and techniques of web programming, digital storytelling, online project management, and web-based cartographic principles for developing, evaluating, and using web maps. To promote the equal access to web mapping technology, we ensure all the web mapping applications from course materials can be opened, debugged or further developed in either Windows or Mac OSX operating systems, and all the relevant software or services are either open source or free. This course is comprised of two major components, including lectures and lab exercises. The lectures focus on the theories and principles behind web mapping, including system architecture, responsive user graphic design, map design and geo-narrative. The lab exercises focus on practical skills for web programming, 2d and 3d web mapping, web mapping services, and digital storytelling. In addition, there will be random quizzes focusing on prior lecture materials, a mid-term focusing on basic concepts and web programming techniques. Although there is no final exam, but each student is expected to demonstrate an existing web map application. From this course, students can learn both the principles of web-based cartography and the practical skills for web mapping, and develop the capabilities of map aesthetics and critique. The course schedule might be slightly changed due to the rate of progress, the latest schedule will be on the github repository frontpage. If you have any question about this course, feel free to contact Dr. Bo Zhao for more information. 🙋

Gear up the Working Environment 💻 ☁️ 🌎 🍺

Week	Lecture (M)	Lecture (W)	Lab (M)	Lecture (F)	Reading
Wk 01	Intro to the Course, Gear Up! ⚙️	Internet Fundamentals	Lab 1: Project Management for Web Mapping	Intro to Web Mapping, 🚀 Quiz 01	Markdown, Links and Command Lines
Wk 02	Web Programming Basics I: HTML 5 and CSS	System Architecture for Web Mapping	Lab 2: Web Programming Basics II: Javascript	Web Programming Basics III: JQuery, 🚀 Quiz 02	HTML, CSS and Javascript
Wk 03	MLK Day	Web Programming Basics IV: Debugging and debugging	Lab 3: Web Map Design	Spatial Data for Web Mapping, 🚀 Quiz 03	Leaflet and GeoJson
Wk 04	Map Client I: Basics and Geographic Features	Map Client II: Map Events and Mashup	Lab 3: Cont'd	Map Client III: Web Map Interaction, 🚀 Quiz 04	GeoServer Documentation
Wk 05	Map Server I: Base Map Design using Mapbox	Map Server II: Intro to GeoServer	Lab 4: Design Basemap	Map Server III: Web Map Services	Bing Map Tile, WFS and WMS
Wk 06	Map Server IV: Map Tiles, 🚀 Quiz 05	Prepartion for mid-term	Lab 4: Cont'd	Map Design I: Web Template and Framework	Bootstrap Documentation
Wk 07	Midterm Exam 📖	Map Design II: Bootstrap, 🚀 Quiz 06	Lab 5: Story Map	Storytelling with Web Map I	Web Map Design Principles
Wk 08	Storytelling with Web Map II, cont'd with the last lecture	Map Design III: User Friendly Design Principles	Lab 5: Cont'd	3D Web Mapping I: Basics	Cesium Documentation
Wk 09	3D Web Mapping I: Basics cont'd, 🚩 Final Project Guideline	Map Design IV: Map Critiques	Lab 6: Thematic Map on a Virtual Globe - 💰Bonus	Real-Time Mapping: TweetMap	Server-Side JavaScript
Wk 10	Emerging Topics on Web Mapping	Final Project Discussion and Preparation	Final Project Presentation - Digital Earth Lab Wilkinson 203 - Thursday March 14th, 9am to noon	Final Project Discussion and Preparation	Elwood et al. (2012), Sui and Zhao (2015)

Final Project Guideline

• Favicon
• Videos
• Images
• Iconography
• Web Fonts
• Colors
• Social media

Programming Languages

Html, CSS, Javascript, and Markdown

Desktop Software

Chrome, Atom, QGIS, and GeoServer

Web Services

GitHub, jsfiddle, Mapbox, W3Schools, and geojson.io ​

Libraries for Web Mapping

Jquery, Bootstrap, Leaflet, Storymap.js, and Cesium

Previous Years

2017 Fall

2017 Winter

• 🏆 A story map on Infrastructure for Water Management from a former student has won the environmental challenge 2017

Credits

This course material is maintained by the Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University. Some of the material in this course are based on the classes taught at MIT and Penn State University and I have heavily drawn on materials and examples found online and tried our best to give credit by linking to the original source. Please contact us if you find materials where the credit is missing or that you would rather have removed.