Tutorial/Exercise 6 - Spatial prioritization with Zonation

Warning

OBS! This exercise is from the year 2021 and for a development version of the Zonation 5 software. These instructions do not apply in the current Zonation 5 version. See the official Zonation webpages for further information.

For this week, the Exercise will be combined with the tutorial. This week, we will use the Zonation software to do the exercises. Hence, you need to install the software to your local computer before starting the tutorial/exercise. We recommend, that you do the installations already before the lecture on Monday.

Install Zonation

Zonation 5 is available for Windows and Linux. Please follow the installation instructions

Install Zonation for Windows

To be able to install Zonation, you need to have admin rights to your computer. Contact us via Slack, if you do not have access to a computer with rights to do installations. To install the software, do following steps:

1. Download Zonation (software will be available for wider audience once it is published by the developers) which is a single executable file including the software.

2. Move the software (Z5setup.exe) somewhere where you have the course Exercises, so it’s easy to find later on.

3. Follow the steps in this presentation:

Install Zonation for Linux

To be able to install Zonation, you need to have admin rights to your computer. Contact us via Slack, if you do not have access to a computer with rights to do installations. To install the software, do following steps:

1. Download Zonation (software will be available for wider audience once it is published by the developers) which is a single executable file including the software:

2. Move the software (Z5.AppImage) somewhere where you have the course Exercises, so it’s easy to find later on.

3. Right click the software icon and choose Properties.

4. Under the Permissions tab, put a tick into the box that says Allow executing file as program:

5. Exit the properties and double-click the Z5.AppImage. If everything works correctly, you should have Zonation running:

Get your copy of the Tutorial/Exercise materials

In a similar manner as in the previous weeks, you will have your copy of the tutorial/exercise materials. Start the tutorial by accepting this GitHub Classroom: Exercise 6. After you have created your own copy of the exercise materials download / clone them to your own computer:

• In case you have Git installed locally, you can clone the repository from terminal/command prompt using Git (git clone <URL-address>)

• If you don’t have Git, you can download the materials directly from GitHub as a Zip file by pressing the Code button on the GitHub repository and choosing Download Zip:

Tutorial instructions