Week 6: Projections Part 2

This weeks lab was very challenging for me. We covered how to dowload data, importing data, defanging data, converting data, and lastly explaining what the data you had meant. I had many issues dowloading the data from Labins.org and unzipping it to use on Arc GIS Pro. However after multiple tries, I was able to figure out how to do it. Conveting the data was also a step that was confusing for me. Making sure you input the data or feature class correctly and output it correctly is critical. If you don't it was mess up the points of data you wanted. Calculating in the excel document was somthing very new to me in this lab as well. It was really cool how powerful excel was. Over all this lab was challenging and took a lot of time, but I did finish it.

GIS Lab Week 5 

In this weeks lab was all about projections and running new ones. We learned how to define a projection, how to reproject shapefiles and raster previous projections, how to create new shapefiles, how to show multiple map views, and lastly how to manipulate attribute tables. Using all of these skills we mad three diffident maps showing the counties of Alachua, Escambia, Miami-Dade, and Polk. We then colored each one different and added the necessary map essentials. This includes the legend, north arrow, scale, labels, title. Overall this lab was pretty difficult for me. The beginning part of running all the projections was a long process for me because at first mine did not work. I was not exporting it to the correct area. However, once I got the hang of it, it went pretty smoothly. The end of the lab was the easier part, this part was just editing the final map to my liking. Overall it was a decent lab and I learned a lot.

LAB 4
In this weeks lab we collected data of any saftey feature outside or inside. I chose the emergency phone poles located around The University Of West Florida. We had to located five of them and collect data on it. We found the cordinal point of each, looked at the condition, and lastly took a photo of them. Before we even got to start collecting the data as I said above, we had to learn how to create an empty feature class and input the correct setttings so that once you collected the data it would show up and work. This in my opinion was the hardest part. I t was difficult finding all the details in the settings and making sure they are correct. One tiny mistake could ruinthe entire project. The collection of data was the easier part for me. It was actually cool watching how it trasfered from my phone to the online data base. Overall I enjoyed this lab.

Basic Story Map:

https://pns.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StoryMapBasic/index.html?appid=d974d9ceea2a42c1a174d082bc3155ea