COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CAD/GIS INTEGRATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 5034 CAD/GIS INTEGRATION ELECTIVE 2 1 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OKAN FISTIKOĞLU

Offered to

Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis) (English)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

Since a comprehensive GIS project requires a large database that contains different types of data in different formats, CAD/GIS integration is now essential in order to bring different groups together to share many information types. The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of both the CAD concepts and CAD / GIS Integration techniques. The course covers topics ranging from editing existing maps through to quality control of compiled or generated CAD data to get ready to GIS implementation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   LO1. To identify the problems on traditional drafting techniques
2   LO2. To make clear the importance of the interactions between CAD and GIS
3   LO3. To detect and eliminate the human originated drawing errors and mistakes in GIS maps
4   LO4. To evaluate and develop both manual and automatic line clean-up processes
5   LO5. To find realistic solutions for the problems in map preparation and GIS data integration

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The difference between CAD and GIS; Importance of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) as a Component of GIS; Difficulties on GIS Data Acquisition via CAD Data Transfer; Limits and capabilities of the Drawing Tools of GIS Software
2 Introduction to CAD (Basic CAD concepts and terms; Line types, Text styles, Cell/Block libraries; Reviewing and evaluation of basic CAD commands; Procedures for creating, editing and printing drawing files; Hardware/ Software environment)
3 Fundamental CAD Software (Autodesk s AutoCAD and Bentley s MicroStation and their Standard Tools and Menus)
4 Design File Settings (Element Attributes, View Controls, Units, Grid & Snap Modes, Layering)
5 Construct CAD Drawings (Editing, Digitizing, Plotting); Data importing and manipulation (Import and Export, DXF Format)
6 Mid-term Exam
7 CAD Productivity (Customizing Menus; Creating User Commands and Menus; VB Scripts and Macros); CAD Management (CAD Standards; Drawing Strategies; Drawing Security)
8 Alternate Drawing Options (Advanced automated drafting techniques; Lisp and scripts; MDL Applications; Automated Mapping); Using GIS Software for Drawing
9 General Concepts in Mapping (Map Projections; Coordinate System Setup; Global Coordinate Systems; Coordinate Conversions Process)
10 Creating Electronic Maps (Geometric constructions; On Screen Digitizing; Vector and Raster forms; Convert Raster to Vector; Drawing or redrawing over backdrop scanned images and/or reference files)
11 Using Reference Files/Registering Image Files (View options of reference files; Changing level symbology and update sequence; Review of the vector mapping against a corresponding digital orthophotos or other images to verify the accuracy of the vector data)
12 Graphic Data & Map Clean Up (Visual Map Checking; Automated line cleanup / MGE Linework Processing)
13 GIS Implementation; Integrating Spatial Data (Database Connection; Database Linkage)
14 Creates Map Topology (The specialized encoding of spatial relationships between features); Topology Layers (Point, line and polygon); Performing Spatial Operations and Analyzing Map Topology (Buffer, overlay, intersections, unions, zone generation and adjacency) Thematic Maps; Dissemination of Geographic Information and Maps; Web Mapping

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
- Principles of Engineering Graphics, 2nd. Ed., Giesecke et all, Prentice Hall, 1994.

Supplementary Book(s):
- Users Manuals of the primary CAD and GIS software (MicroStation, AutoCAD, MapInfo, ArcView, MGE, GeoMedia and MSGeoGraphics).

Other Materials:
- Power point presentations

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Power point presentations; reference documents; homework; mid-term and final exams.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1, 2 and 3 will be assessed and rated using midterm exam and final exam
LO 4 and 5 will be assessed and rated using homework and final exam

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Course policy and rules will be announced at the beginning of the semester

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Yalçın Arısoy: yalcin.arisoy@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Student face time will be determined at the beginning of the semester

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Tutorials 14 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 56 56
Final 1 4 4
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1122233
LO.2432
LO.32332
LO.422
LO.532333