The goal of the Final Project is for you to put together what you’ve learned in the course to develop a spatial database that solves a problem of your own choosing. You may choose to attack your problem using either a Postgres/PostGIS approach or an Esri geodatabase approach.
A database’s usefulness is dependent on how well it helps to solve the problem it was built to address. Typically, a database serves as the "back end" of some sort of application which could be centered around a map or not, and could be web-based or not. We haven’t covered how to build such applications and this project’s timeline is fairly short, so I can’t require you to do much in terms of applying your database to your problem. However, what I will ask you to do is some combination of the following:
Those of you who have skills in this area and would like the extra challenge are welcome to put together a front-end application (such as an ArcGIS Server or OpenLayers web map). Just be sure to complete the project’s minimum requirements before getting bogged down in something more advanced.
This project is two weeks in length. Please refer to the Canvas Calendar for the due date.
Submit your write-up in Word or PDF format to the Final Project. Your write-up should contain the following sections:
Your submission will be graded as follows: