Nairobi, Kenya

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Advanced Web Based Mapping Applications Using Open Source Gis Tools Course

This course will equip individuals with the skills and knowledge to build web-based GIS applications. GIS systems capture, store, check, and display data with respect to specific locations on the Eart...

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Programme Overview
Training Description

  • GIS Professionals & Cartographers: Those looking to transition from desktop tools (like ArcGIS or QGIS) to web-based deployment.

  • Web Developers: Developers who want to integrate complex spatial features, maps, and geographic queries into their applications.

  • Urban Planners & Environmental Scientists: Professionals who need to share real-time spatial data with stakeholders or the public.

  • IT & Database Administrators: Technical staff responsible for managing spatial databases (PostgreSQL/PostGIS) and map servers.

  • M&E (Monitoring & Evaluation) Experts: Those who use spatial visualization to track project progress across different regions.

Session Objectives
  • Architect a Web GIS Stack: Understand the relationship between the client-side (browser), the server-side (GeoServer), and the database (PostGIS).
  • Manage Spatial Databases: Deploy and optimize a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database to handle complex spatial queries and large datasets.
  • Publish Geospatial Services: Configure GeoServer to serve data using international OGC standards, specifically WMS (Web Map Service) and WFS (Web Feature Service).
  • Develop Interactive Clients: Write custom JavaScript code using the Leaflet or OpenLayers libraries to create responsive, mobile-friendly maps.
  • Implement Spatial Analysis: Perform on-the-fly calculations such as buffering, distance measurements, and intersection directly within the web application.
  • Optimize Performance: Apply tiling and caching strategies (via GeoWebCache) to ensure maps load quickly even with high traffic.
  • Secure Spatial Data: Set up basic security protocols to control who can view or edit geographic data layers online.
About the Course

This course will equip individuals with the skills and knowledge to build web-based GIS applications. GIS systems capture, store, check, and display data with respect to specific locations on the Earth’s surface. GIS technologies are flexible, meaning they are applicable in almost every field. GIS is especially beneficial to those working in the e-government, e-business, and e-science fields.

Curriculum & Topics

6 Topics | 38 Sessions

  • play Workshop 1.1: • Introduction to GIS and web mapping

  • play Workshop 1.2: • Web mapping key concepts

  • play Workshop 1.3: • QGIS as an open source software

  • play Workshop 1.4: • OGC web mapping standards

  • play Workshop 1.5: • Types of web mapping technologies

  • play Workshop 1.6: • Web GIS development cycle

  • play Workshop 1.7: • System architecture for web mapping

  • play Workshop 1.8: • Free and open source softwares in web mapping

  • play Workshop 1.9: • Finding and Sharing web maps on CartoDB

  • play Workshop 2.1: • Analytic web pages

  • play Workshop 2.2: • System architecture for web mapping

  • play Workshop 2.3: • Elements of a web map

  • play Workshop 2.4: • Collaborative web maps

  • play Workshop 2.5: • Animated and real time

  • play Workshop 2.6: • Static web maps

  • play Workshop 3.1: • Reading points frm an XML fle

  • play Workshop 3.2: • Converting shape files to XML

  • play Workshop 3.3: • Geocoding and reverse geocoding

  • play Workshop 3.4: • Adding Side bars

  • play Workshop 3.5: • Using Fusion Table as Data Source

  • play Workshop 3.6: • Mapping your own data

  • play Workshop 3.7: • Reading shape using JavaScript libraries

  • play Workshop 4.1: • Dynamic Drawn maps

  • play Workshop 4.2: • Basic and advanced symbolization and styling with a WMS

  • play Workshop 4.3: • Introduction to basics of open specifications for web map services and WMS specifications

  • play Workshop 5.1: • Introduction to web mapping API

  • play Workshop 5.2: • Overlaying WMS on tiled maps with Openlayers

  • play Workshop 5.3: • Examining OpenLayers examples

  • play Workshop 5.4: • Programming patterns with web mapping APIs

  • play Workshop 5.5: • Introduction to Google maps

  • play Workshop 5.6: • Adding Makers to Google maps

  • play Workshop 5.7: • Creating custom web maps without programming

  • play Workshop 6.1: • Working with vector KML

  • play Workshop 6.2: • Drawing vector layers on the client side

  • play Workshop 6.3: • Symbolizing vector in OpenLayers

  • play Workshop 6.4: • Working with GeoJSON

  • play Workshop 6.5: • GIS analysis on the web

  • play Workshop 6.6: • Adding interactive GeoJSON layers on OpenLayers

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Payments can be made via bank transfer or bank draft payable to PB Institute of Research and Technology. For corporate-sponsored participants, a formal undertaking/Local Purchase Order (LPO) from the employer is required to secure a slot before the training commencement date.

Most of our professional short courses are structured as intensive 5- or 10-day programs to minimize extended workplace absence while maximizing skill acquisition. We also offer compressed 1-to-3-day masterclasses.