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  1. Not started, How many tiles does an offline London need?Web deliveryAnswers

    From a bounding box to a tile count: size the offline basemap for a field app across zoom 10–15.

    Web GISbeginnerDifficulty: beginner140 XP~25 min3 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • London boroughs · Polygon · 33 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Take the bounding box of the borough layer
    • Convert box corners to tile coordinates at each zoom
    • Count tiles per zoom and total them into a storage estimate
    XYZ tilesWeb Mercatorofflinecapacity planningLondonAlso trains Cartography
    Open problem
  2. Not started, What is Greater London made of?Raster analysisAnswers

    A class histogram on a 10 m land-cover raster: the shares a planning document quotes, and the reason a pixel count is not quite an area.

    Remote SensingbeginnerDifficulty: beginner140 XP~25 min5 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Greater London land cover 2021 (ESA WorldCover 10 m) · Raster · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Read a categorical raster and count pixels per class
    • Express classes as shares of the valid pixels
    • State what the number is and is not
    land coverWorldCoverhistogramrasterLondonAlso trains Data Management
    Open problem
  3. Not started, Which airport codes will break the schedule join?Data qualityAnswers

    Audit a registry's identifiers before they become a join key: missing, malformed and duplicated codes, and positions that are only approximate.

    Data ManagementbeginnerDifficulty: beginner130 XP~25 min5 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • World airports · Point · 893 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Find nulls, duplicates and malformed values in an identifier column
    • Distinguish a key defect from a position defect
    • Report counts the integration can be sized against
    data qualityidentifiersjoin keysaviationAlso trains Python
    Open problem
  4. Not started, Accept the rasters, or send them backData qualityAnswers

    The checks a data manager runs on delivered rasters before anyone analyses them: extent, nodata, value range, and whether the figures are plausible for the place.

    Data ManagementintermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~35 min6 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Datasets

    • Greater London elevation (Copernicus DEM GLO-30) · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • Greater London land cover 2021 (ESA WorldCover 10 m) · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • Greater London, Sentinel-2 red and NIR, 11 July 2025 · Raster · EPSG:32630

    What you’ll do

    • Read raster metadata and full-resolution statistics
    • Distinguish nodata from valid extremes
    • Record facts a later dispute can start from
    raster QAnodatametadataacceptanceLondonAlso trains Remote Sensing
    Open problem
  5. Not started, At which zoom does every capital get its own tile?Web deliveryAnswers

    Count capitals per XYZ tile across zooms to decide where a label layer switches from clustering to one label per city.

    Web GISintermediateDifficulty: intermediate180 XP~25 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Populated places · Point · 1,251 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Convert points to tile indices at several zooms
    • Find the busiest tile per zoom
    • Choose a switch-over zoom from the data
    XYZ tileslabelsclusteringzoom levelsglobalAlso trains Cartography
    Open problem
  6. Not started, At which zoom does the dock layer fit in a tile?Web deliveryAnswers

    Count features per XYZ tile across zoom levels to set a vector-tile pipeline's minimum zoom and its per-tile limit honestly.

    Web GISintermediateDifficulty: intermediate190 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Santander Cycles docking stations (live snapshot) · Point · 799 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Convert coordinates to tile indices at several zooms
    • Count features per tile and find the maximum
    • Choose a minimum zoom from the data rather than a default
    vector tilesXYZtippecanoezoom levelsLondonAlso trains Spatial Analysis
    Open problem
  7. Not started, How big does Web Mercator make Greenland?CartographyAnswers

    Put a number on the most famous distortion in cartography: the same countries measured on the ellipsoid and on the projection every web map uses.

    CartographyintermediateDifficulty: intermediate210 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Countries · MultiPolygon · 241 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Measure area geodesically or in an equal-area projection
    • Project the same polygons to Web Mercator and take their planar area
    • Express the distortion as ratios a reader can repeat
    Web Mercatorprojectionarea distortionEqual EarthglobalAlso trains Spatial Analysis
    Open problem
  8. Not started, How green was London on 11 July 2025?Raster analysisAnswers

    Compute NDVI from a two-band Sentinel-2 clip, handle nodata and integer types properly, and report the distribution a monitoring programme quotes.

    Remote SensingintermediateDifficulty: intermediate220 XP~35 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Greater London, Sentinel-2 red and NIR, 11 July 2025 · Raster · EPSG:32630

    What you’ll do

    • Compute a band ratio index with correct types
    • Exclude nodata from every statistic
    • Summarise the index as the programme's three figures
    NDVISentinel-2band mathnodataLondon
    Open problem
  9. Not started, The buffer that shrank on the way to the mapCartographyAnswers

    Quantify what a 400 m buffer drawn in EPSG:3857 actually covers on the ground in London, and how much of the coverage report it loses.

    CartographyintermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Datasets

    • Santander Cycles docking stations (live snapshot) · Point · 799 features · EPSG:4326
    • London boroughs · Polygon · 33 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Derive the Web Mercator scale factor at London's latitude
    • Translate a projected buffer distance into its ground equivalent
    • Re-run the coverage analysis with the shrunken buffer and measure the shortfall
    Web Mercatorscale factorprojectionbufferLondonAlso trains Spatial Analysis
    Open problem
  10. Not started, When the attributes and the geometry disagreeData qualityAnswers

    A reference gazetteer carries a latitude and a longitude column beside its geometry. Audit how far apart they are, and what else does not add up.

    Data ManagementintermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~35 min5 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Populated places · Point · 1,251 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Compare each feature's geometry to the coordinate attributes it carries
    • Count the disagreements at two thresholds and identify the worst
    • Find keys the downstream spreadsheet cannot distinguish
    data qualitygazetteerhaversineduplicatesglobalAlso trains Python
    Open problem
  11. Not started, Which ports in the registry are the same port?Data qualityAnswers

    Find probable duplicates in a facility registry by combining a name match with a distance rule — and separate them from the honest homonyms.

    Data ManagementintermediateDifficulty: intermediate190 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Ports · Point · 1,081 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Find repeated identifiers in a registry
    • Combine an attribute match with a spatial rule to separate duplicates from homonyms
    • Size the missing attribute that would resolve the rest
    data qualitydeduplicationhaversineregistryglobalAlso trains Spatial Analysis
    Open problem
  12. Not started, Why a cloud-optimised GeoTIFF is cheap to serveWeb deliveryAnswers

    Read a COG's internal structure — tiles, overviews, bytes — and turn it into the numbers a tile server's capacity plan rests on.

    GIS ArchitectureintermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Datasets

    • Greater London land cover 2021 (ESA WorldCover 10 m) · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • Greater London, Sentinel-2 red and NIR, 11 July 2025 · Raster · EPSG:32630

    What you’ll do

    • Read a GeoTIFF's block size and overview structure
    • Count internal tiles from dimensions and block size
    • Relate the structure to what a tile request costs
    COGGeoTIFFtile servercapacity planningrasterAlso trains Web GIS
    Open problem
  13. Not started, Build an earthquake contact reconnaissance queueProjectDecision support3 steps

    Screen strong shallow events, quantify airfield and settlement proximity, and hand over a traceable contact map.

    Spatial AnalysisadvancedDifficulty: advanced550 XP~95 min12 checks

    Worked in 3 steps, each checked before the next one opens.

    1. Select the event queue · SQL
    2. Measure contact gaps · Answers
    3. Hand over the access map · Python

    Datasets

    • Global M5.5+ earthquakes, Jan–Mar 2025 · Point · 86 features · EPSG:4326
    • World airports · Point · 893 features · EPSG:4326
    • Populated places · Point · 1,251 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Select a reproducible event queue in SQL
    • Measure two independent global proximity indicators
    • Deliver an auditable access map with an explicit contact-gap distinction
    projectUSGSnearest neighbourlogisticsglobalAlso trains Python, Data Management, Cartography
    Open project
  14. Not started, Classify a map where most of the values are zeroCartographyAnswers

    Quantile breaks collapse on a distribution dominated by zeros. Measure how, on the river-kilometres-per-country table, and say what a map maker should do instead.

    CartographyadvancedDifficulty: advanced290 XP~45 min6 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Datasets

    • Countries · MultiPolygon · 241 features · EPSG:4326
    • Rivers and lake centrelines · LineString · 461 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Reproduce a derived per-country measure
    • Compute quantile and equal-interval breaks on a zero-heavy distribution
    • Quantify how each scheme distributes the countries
    choroplethclassificationquantileszero-inflatedhydrologyAlso trains Python, Spatial Analysis
    Open problem
  15. Not started, Defend a borough greening shortlistProjectDecision support3 steps

    Measure canopy and summer vegetation on their own grids, then add low-ground context and apply one transparent shortlist rule.

    Remote SensingadvancedDifficulty: advanced620 XP~110 min13 checks

    Worked in 3 steps, each checked before the next one opens.

    1. Audit the vegetation rasters · Answers
    2. Deliver the borough evidence table · Dataset file
    3. Add low-ground context and shortlist · GeoJSON

    Datasets

    • Greater London land cover 2021 (ESA WorldCover 10 m) · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • Greater London, Sentinel-2 red and NIR, 11 July 2025 · Raster · EPSG:32630
    • Greater London elevation (Copernicus DEM GLO-30) · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • London boroughs · Polygon · 33 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Audit the two vegetation measures from observed raster pixels
    • Hand over a per-borough canopy and NDVI table as a GIS file
    • Add area-weighted low ground and an explicit shortlist flag
    zonal statisticsNDVIland coverDEMmulti-criteriaLondonAlso trains Spatial Analysis, Data Management
    Open project
  16. Not started, Deliver a compact sewer review mapProjectWeb delivery3 steps

    Extract a review cohort, make its browser payload inspectable, and measure the transfer budget.

    Web GISadvancedDifficulty: advanced580 XP~90 min9 checks

    Worked in 3 steps, each checked before the next one opens.

    1. Extract the review cohort · SQL
    2. Prepare the browser layer · Python
    3. Measure the transfer budget · Answers

    Dataset

    • NYC 311 sewer requests, 1–7 June 2025 · Point · 408 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Query the exact review cohort
    • Serve a compact, inspectable WGS 84 point layer
    • Measure raw and compressed payload size from the delivered layer
    NYC 311urban servicestemporal GISheat mapGeoPandasAlso trains PostGIS / SQL, Python
    Open project
  17. Not started, Deliver a field-ready public asset registerProjectData preparation4 steps

    Merge two open asset extracts into a quality-controlled GeoPackage for field inspection.

    Data ManagementadvancedDifficulty: advanced600 XP~105 min17 checks

    Worked in 4 steps, each checked before the next one opens.

    1. Audit both incoming sources · Answers
    2. Build the common asset model · Dataset file
    3. Verify and round coordinates · GeoJSON
    4. Package and verify the handover · Dataset file

    Datasets

    • Melbourne toilet source · Point · 7 features · EPSG:4326
    • Melbourne drinking-water source · Point · 21 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Profile and reconcile two source layers without multiplying assets.
    • Normalise access without representing unknown status as public.
    • Deliver a reproducible, typed WGS 84 GeoPackage handover.
    data-preparationprojectgeopackagemelbournehandoverAlso trains Spatial Analysis, Cartography
    Open project
  18. Not started, Plan a cycle redistribution shiftProjectDecision support3 steps

    Classify the dock snapshot, propose bounded bike moves, and size the resulting shift with its unserved stations visible.

    Spatial AnalysisadvancedDifficulty: advanced600 XP~100 min11 checks

    Worked in 3 steps, each checked before the next one opens.

    1. Classify the snapshot · SQL
    2. Map feasible transfers · GeoJSON
    3. Size the preliminary shift · Answers

    Dataset

    • Santander Cycles docking stations (live snapshot) · Point · 799 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Classify full and empty active stations in SQL
    • Build a bounded nearest-source transfer map
    • Size a shift and report unserved empties from the same rules
    nearest neighbouroperationscapacityCRStransportLondonAlso trains Data Management, GIS Architecture
    Open project
  19. Not started, Polling a live feed: what does it cost per day?Web deliveryAnswers

    Size the transfer cost of a live layer from the file as served — uncompressed, gzipped, and per day at scale — before choosing between polling and push.

    GIS ArchitectureadvancedDifficulty: advanced280 XP~35 min3 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Santander Cycles docking stations (live snapshot) · Point · 799 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Measure a payload as served rather than as re-encoded
    • Quantify what transport compression buys
    • Extrapolate a polling design to a daily transfer figure
    capacity planningpollinggzippayloadarchitectureAlso trains Web GIS
    Open problem
  20. Not started, Screen Newham’s greening gridProjectRaster analysis3 steps

    Audit a real land-cover chip, deliver a measured grid file, and identify cells for field verification.

    Remote SensingadvancedDifficulty: advanced600 XP~100 min10 checks

    Worked in 3 steps, each checked before the next one opens.

    1. Audit the class chip · Answers
    2. Hand over the measured grid · Dataset file
    3. Map field-verification cells · GeoJSON

    Datasets

    • Newham WorldCover 2021 class chip · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • London boroughs · Polygon · 33 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Audit class counts in the clipped raster
    • Prepare a traceable borough grid as an uploaded GIS file
    • Return only cells that meet a stated greening screen
    NewhamWorldCoverurban greeningoffline rasterAlso trains Data Management, Spatial Analysis
    Open project

That’s all 20 problems.

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