What are some of you favorite multiple choice, TRUE-FALSE, or short answer questions that you think every college student should be able to answer at the end of an intro course?
I've given my students a pretty challenging task for final projects, so I want to go easy on them for their final exam. My target is just to make sure they have a solid foundation in theory.
(I have both undergrad and graduate students)
Here's my favorite question, because I bet many GIS professionals would struggle with it: "in a few sentences, explain the difference between a Datum and a GCS". How would those of you participating in this forum answer that question?
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Roger Tomlinson is generally recognized as the "father of GIS" and the Canada Geographic Information System, was the first computerised GIS in the world (Ottawa, Canada).
Hi Thomas!
I like Dan's question - I talked with Tomlinson many times over the years and miss him. I show his Data for Decisions videos (now on YouTube in 3 parts) frequently to GIS students to foster some really excellent discussions (what is different about GIS now than in 1967? What is the same or similar?).
1. I would say in answer to your challenging question above that a datum is a set of reference points associated with a model that describes the shape and size of the Earth. It could be horizontal, vertical, or include elements of both. A GCS is just a way of casting coordinates on the Earth that allows for the data to be drawn in a GIS, but it is not modeled upon the true Earth shape, and therefore should be used with care.
2. I would say that some of my favorite T/F questions have focused on coordinates (35 deg 15' 27.4" is an example of Decimal Degree format: T/F?), the core of GIS (the table that you can open in a GIS is an example of the "G" part of GIS: T/F?), data in a GIS (a grid of land cover values in which every cell has a value containing a land cover type is an example of raster data in a GIS: T/F?), or definitions (location privacy refers to whether your GIS layer is on your computer vs. in the cloud: T/F?).
3. Below is Quiz #1 from my public domain GIS course, FYI.
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--Joseph Kerski
While spatial join and Intersect both combine attribute tables, a spatial join does not _____ features (split)
Good one, Curtis!