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Title: Guofeng Cao


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Geog 480 Principles of GIS
  • Guofeng Cao
  • CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information
    Laboratory
  • Department of Geography
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    (NCSA)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2
Group Projects
3
Project Idea 1 Campus Map
  • Current Campus Map http//illinois.edu/map/view
  • Class schedule http//classwhole.com/
  • Integrate class schedules to campus map
  • UIUC GIS group has been collecting detailed
    campus spatial information.
  • location of each door
  • Pedestrian path
  • http//www.mapcamp.us/
  • Contact Varun Goel goel4_at_illinois.edu and Julie
    Carlson jccarls2_at_illinois.edu 

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Project Idea 2 Social Media
  • Social media (e.g. Twitter) provides an new
    modality of data to study the complex
    social/urban systems
  • Many exciting applications have been developed
    based on such new data sources
  • Predict the stock market
  • Trends Map http//trendsmap.com/
  • OneMillionTweetMap http//onemilliontweetmap.com/
  • Tracking Hurricane Sandy and Presidential
    Campaign (by CIGI) https//www.facebook.com/sgigl
    obal/app_164226463720371
  • Mapping real-time local topic trends
  • Data source Twitter Streaming API
    https//dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis

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Project Idea 3 Public Safety/Health
  • Map the public emergency and public health events
    (crime, birth/death, diabetes, etc.), and the
    local trends and statistics over years
  • Support query according to certain conditions
  • Links
  • Current crime map https//www.crimereports.com/
  • http//urbanaillinois.us/departments/police/crime-
    beat-maps
  • For Chicago https//data.cityofchicago.org/

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Project Idea 4 Economic Recession
  • Map changes of unemployment rate, income in state
    or national level and investigate the effects of
    government economic policy
  • Links
  • Department of Labor http//www.bls.gov/bls/unempl
    oyment.htm
  • US Censors Bureau http//factfinder2.census.gov/f
    aces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

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Project Idea 5 Map Tiles Server
  • Build custom web tiles from OpenStreetMap data
    (public available)
  • Incorporating the door and pedestrian information
    UIUC GIS group collected
  • Serving the map request from users (like map
    service provided by Google Maps and Bing Maps)
  • A sample interactive map based on the developed
    map server.
  • Links
  • www.openstreetmap.org
  • www.switch2osm.org

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  • Course projects
  • The project will be divided into four stages, and
    report of each stage plus lecture related
    problems considered as four assignments (15 each
    4 60) the first stage starts from end of
    week3
  • The project will be evaluated based on (1)
    technical innovation, (2) thoroughness of the
    work, and (3) clarity of presentation
  • Team composition teams must include no more
    than 4 students and 2 graduate students
  • Assignment 1 out today

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Links
  • National Geographic Awards in Mapping
    http//www.natgeomaps.com/mapawards
  • Apply deadline Feb. 15
  • UIUC 2013 SESE Research Review
  • Registration deadline Feb. 1
  • Mar.1st 2-530pm, Illini Union

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