Activities

  • Explore EPSG using QGIS
  • Explore GeoNames service

Experiment with geocoding in Google and ArcGIS Online, and consider the importance of this function in geospatial user interfaces like SDI portals!

Assignment: Answer the following questions and complete exercises.

  • Select a favourite location (your hometown, your dream holiday destination, ...) and get its approximate centroid coordinates in lat/long
  • For the same area, identify a suitable map projection (eg UTM zone) and specify the appropriate EPSG code
  • Using a WCTS, select any city in Italy and transform its location from LatLong into UTM
  • Use the GeoNames Gazetteer Service to identify the coordinates of your 'favourite location' (from above)
  • Select an arbitrary street address you are familiar with, and check whether the Google Maps and ArcGIS Online geocoding services provide identical locations
Last modified: Thursday, 4 June 2020, 10:38 AM