Intro to GIS Final!

Our final project was to present our findings, skills, and analysis to produce data and maps regarding a proposed transmission line route stretching from Manatee County to Sarasota County.  The preferred corridor selected had to meet several criteria including having relatively few residential properties in proximity of corridor, avoiding schools and daycare facilities, avoiding environmentally sensitive land, and producing a transmission line within a reasonable budget. Please see attached hyperlinks to see my final project findings.

This was a great semester and I learned a lot about GIS.



http://students.uwf.edu/mcb41/introtogis/MonicaBlumberg_finalproject.pptx
http://students.uwf.edu/mcb41/introtogis/MonicaBlumberg_FinalProjectCommentary.pdf

Cartography Final!!

The end of the first semester of GIS is finally here! The above map is a choropleth map with added proportional symbols that show data from ACT scores in 2009. Average scores and percentage of students tested are depicted in the map above. The most interesting part of the data viewed is that many of the larger states have lower scores and participation rates than those in smaller states.  

Georeferencing, Editing, and Arcscene

This week we honed our GIS skills by learning how to georeference, editing, and Arcscene. The first map depicted shows a 2D view of the UWF campus as well as the Campus Ln. and Building 072 that were added via the editing session. The second map shows the georeferenced UWF campus and a bald eagle nesting site with buffer zone.

Google Earth Lab

In this weeks lab we used Arcmap to convert two files to .KML, created two maps in Google Earth. The first map is the one picture above, which showes several different pieces of information including population density and hydrology. The second part of the lab was creating a tour in Google Earth of several cities and locations in South Florida. Google Earth is very user friendly and I found this lab to be particularly interesting because of the options that Google Earth provides to the user.

Geocoding Lab

This week we worked on Geocoding and ModelBuilder.  I had an extremely rough time with receiving  many error messages when trying to calculate the route.