Week 6_Georeferencing

Georeferencing the UWF campus in two parts. The north campus was done through 10 control points, 1st Order transformation, returning a total RMS of 6.61793. The south campus was achieved using 20 control points, 2nd Order transformation, returning a total RMS of 4.68964. On both transformations, adding additional points did not return a significant or better result. On the south campus transformation, the 2nd Order transformation appeared to be the better visually compared to the 3rd Order.

Week5_Data Search

Manatee County was my subject area. On the first map I chose to show public lands as points so as not to conflict with all of the other info. Also, most of the public lands (parks, memorials, reserves, etc.) relate to the strategic habitats and wetlands of the second map. The third map consists of satellite imagery. Fortunately, FGDL had all of the info I needed.

Haiti Map

I chose this map because it was one that I was using with friends who have friends/family in Haiti. It is one of the interactive ones with layers and images and it was easy to use for moving around and viewing different areas. User friendly. As a static map, not very good because there is no information/legend to tell what we are looking at but I liked this screen because it shows the multiple faults, red lines, in Haiti (I had no idea).

Week 4_Projections

Week 4 maps; using ArcToolbox to project shapefiles into three coordinate systems highlighting the four counties to display the slight differences. The instructions, as always, are concise and easy to follow. The exercise was easy; hopefully some of the information will will stick for future recall! The only problem I had was not with this portion of the lab but the UWF cell size I had was not one of the choices on the quiz.

Wk3_Map3_Elevation

This map is using a color ramp for elevation. I chose this because it seemed logical and familiar; green lower to brown or arid at higher elevations. Still trying to understand the options in the stretched scenario and how to determine which is more applicable. Hopefully as time goes on it will become more clear.

Wk3_Map2_Central Mexico

This map worked with manipulating information for the layout view, labels, layers, legend, etc. I like the annotation for the labels. No surprises.

Wk3_Map1_Population

For the population map I chose this color ramp because I thought it contrasted well between breaks. This assignment was pretty painless. Learning things I don't remember from other classes; that always makes it fun.