GIS 4048 Week 10 - HLS Protect

This has  been a challenge - but I have learned about ArcGIS and it's data base management. It was not fun but rewarding in surmounting the objective.

GIS 4048 Week 9 HLS Prepare

Again this was a frustrating but very good exercise in preparing data from various sources and preparing a organized database. The first is the Urban Area and the second is the DEM. I did have to download a new DEM which was painless.

Week 8: Law Enforcement

While I had no problems with the raw data and data conversion, I did encounter with some basic ArcGIS programs. The street database still has me "waking up the dead" and the placement of Neatlines has me even "waking up the real old dead." Never the less this was a good reinforcement of the basics and further insight into what ArcGIS can do if your not on a College Main Frame. Yes I lost the Neatline in 3 and 4 and after three tries - you get what you get.

Now for the show:

 

Week 7 On Your Own

Well this again was a good exercise of ArcGIS tools and reinforcement of the fundamentals of the program. Other than shooting myself in the foot many times, I was able to get it delivered. Just forgot to post it on the blog. oops

Location Decisions Part 1 - Homing in on Alachua County Florida

For the most part this was an enjoyable series of projects and reinforcing the basic of ArcGIS data base management. Also the continued use of the program is allowing me to hone up on the basic elements and manipulating them into their respective places with in the Frame.

The exercised also exposed some new tools when dealing with raster files and converting homegrown files into raster. Playing with the color wheel took most of the time deciding which color scheme suited the information to be displayed.

Week5 - Urban Planning and Impact Assessment - Activity 2

This was an ESRI traning module that gave insight into the inputting of spatial data into existing or creating new attribute tables and through the mathmatical formulas being able to render a meaningful map presentation. This has given me a new prespective on what is takes to create the presentation and the labor that was necessary in pre computer days.

Deliverable 1: Environmental Impact Assessment - EIA for Pewter City

This was a straight forward exercise that introduced us to the import and manipulation of spatial data. The initial exercised reinforced the area selection and buffering tools usage. Based upon the street survey data I was able to apply the spatial data to a map rendering giving the indication of the current and projected traffic flow.

Deliverable 2: Social Impact - Student Residency Locations

Again this was a reinforcement of database management and working with tables to be able to display spatial data. I was tasked to identify the various land types and the areas of location. I then appended select tables to add the survey data to determine the most populated areas in which students were residing.

Deliverable 3: Location Quotient


This exercise tested my reading skills in that I went through 3 series of attempts to get it right. This exercise expanded on spatial data manipulation and in creating or expanding the current attribute tables. Given the process steps to arrive at the findings were more intricate and challenging. While my planning has been dealing with emergency preparedness, this exercise was very informative in how the urban planners develop their spatial data and analysis.

Deepwater Horizon oil spill animation