Get the GIS of it

This week's lab was difficult for me to complete due to lack of time and my wifi service being constantly interrupted. However, I was able to complete the required work without any other issues. I completed the quizzes last week and reviewed the information from the textbook on georeferencing before starting the lab assignment. The required map for the assignment, seen below, was relatively easy to produce. It shows the UWF campus with the buildings, main roads, and the location of Heritage Hall. The inset map shows where Heritage Hall is located relative to the location and the required buffer zone of the Eagles nest on the property.  I will be completing the 3D map later on and adding it to this post as well as my submission for the class. Due to the time constraints previously mentioned, I was unable to complete the second map before the submission deadline. 

 In this week's lab, there were many steps to prepare data to be put into ArcGIS and ensure that the data was being projected correctly. For the first part of the lab, we worked with lat/long data in Excel to prepare it to be imported to a map project in ArcGIS. I didn't have any trouble with this part of the lab, and below is an image of what the finished product looked like. The map shows the location of three eagle nests in the bay area of Pensacola. The next part of the lab dealt with geocoding. While I didn't have any trouble with the lab itself, it did take me longer than I expected to ensure that all of the data was associated with the correct coordinate system. The link below will take you to the finished product from the geocoding part of the lab. This map shows the locations of all of the schools within Manatee County, Florida. Link:  https://pns.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7eb37f67cb384b22b19bc1ce140649ca

 This week's material included reading chapters 2 and 4 from our textbook, along with a lecture and 2 quizzes. The lab for this week had two parts. In the first part of the lab, I learned how to complete spatial and attribute queries. I was also able to practice creating and connecting to the correct geodatabase. In the second part of the lab, I learned to use the buffer and overlay modeling tools. At the end of the second part of the lab, I used the combined knowledge I gained in previous labs to create the attached map.  The map shows campsites of various sizes in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at De Soto National Forest. Sites colored in blue have a smaller area, while those in yellow are the largest. 

 This week I learned about how to use different coordinate systems to properly project data. For the lab, we used three different coordinate systems to get three different projections of the Florida counties. We compared the area of four counties in Florida, which are shown in the attached map. Two of the projections used, Albers and State Plane N, yielded the same data. However, the UTM 16 N projection of the chosen counties was very different.