What types of software and hardware are you currently using for GIS classes and projects?

Try the map locators offered by Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo! Maps, and Google Maps, respectively. State the major differences among these three systems.

Define geometries and attributes as the two components of GIS data.

One of the largest changes in the economy over the past several decades is that technological advances have reduced the cost of making computers. Are computers and software complements or substitutes? Draw a supply-and-demand diagram to show what happened to price, quantity, consumer surplus, and producer surplus in the market for software. Should software producers have been happy or sad about the technological advance in computers?

Go to the National Institute of Justice website (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/) and read how GIS is used for crime analysis.

Go to the USGS National Map website (http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html) and see what kinds of geospatial data are available for download.

List the other classification methods besides Manual that are available in ArcMap.

Does ArcMap draw the top layer in the table of contents first?

Does ArcMap draw the top layer in the table of contents first?

Describe an example from your discipline in which a GIS can provide useful tools for building a model.

Name two examples of raster data analysis.

Name two examples of vector data analysis.

Suppose you are required to do a GIS project for a class. What types of activities or operations do you have to perform to complete the project?

The following link, http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.1977/0.1507, shows a map of Cambridge, England, based on OpenStreetMap data. Use the map to compare the quality of OpenStreetMap data with Google Maps.