Saturday, October 16, 2021

Week 7: Intro to GIS Final

Video https://youtu.be/JqB-fLCcQ80

Transcript https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uxhy6Hmx-AxTRoUBWD-qKtZV3jg8vEEX2IWthMnQESs/edit?usp=sharing

This week I made my final. The powerpoint showcase the experience I gained over this course. Please take the time to view it.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Week 6: Georeferencing, Editing, and 3D

 

This week, I georeferenced two rasters of UWF's campus. I utilized the vector features provided in order to line up the raster images. I looked for buildings and road intersection, then I placed control points in order to shape the raster. I was sure to have sufficiently low RMSE values in order to limit distortion. In addition I created a Multiple Ring Buffer of an eagle nest near the campus in order to showcase the proximity. Additionally I created a simply inset map that utilized data from previous labs.

Saturday, October 2, 2021

Week 5: Geocoding Addresses

This week I geocoded addresses for education facilities in Manatee County, FL. First, I downloaded the necessary geographic information for geocoding from the Florida Department of Education and the U.S Census Bureau. I then had to clean the data up in Microsoft Excel before I could project the information in ArcPro. I then imported the CSV I created as a table in ArcPro, and after creating a Geolocator that tied the tabular information geographically via address and zipcode. I then geolocated the addresses, but there were some that were unable to be match, about 18 of them. In order to find these addresses, I utilized Google Earth. I typed the address into Google Earth and found the nearest school. If an address was not available, I looked in the attribute table for a name. I then converted the degrees, minutes, seconds of the latitude and longitude into decimal degrees. For conveniences sake, I used a website that automatically calculated those values into decimal degrees (https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal). After completing the geolocation, I upload a webmap which can be found here, https://pns.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=22ef69ca55eb4d54a2bf799096ebd8b6

Mod 3.1 Scale Effect and Spatial Data Aggregation

  Scale effects the number of features that are depicted in a map, the overall length of these features, and if the feature is a polygon the...