Final Project for GIS4043, Intro2GIS

Bobwhite-Manatee Transmission Line Project: Demonstrating the Effectiveness of GIS

The last couple weeks we have spent in the completion of our final project. This project required us to draw upon all the previous lessons and without much direction, create various maps, write a report of our analysis and methods and present a Power Point presentation on this site. Here is the results of my labor.



 http://students.uwf.edu/kjl15/Intro2GIS/FinalProject/LaPlanteReport1.pdf

 
  http://students.uwf.edu/kjl15/Intro2GIS/FinalProject/LaPlanteFinal1.pptx

3D Map of UWF Campus Roads and Buildings and Conservation Easement Map

This week was actually fun! Never thought I would say that again in this course. It seems that much is coming together better since the weeks of the dreaded Projections fiasco. For this lesson, we learned about Georeferencing using the Control Points tools to reference the unknown elements of raster data to known elements of vector data. We learned that it is important to not only make sure that the Root Mean Square errors are within acceptable limits (below 15) but also making sure there is an accurate appereance. Working within the attribute tables gave us the information we needed to tweak the points until we got what we needed. We then learned how to digitize elements such as roads and buildings, open and end editing sessions and lastly create 3D map images utilizing ArcScene. The first map below shows the 3D efforts:

This second map shows the work related to using Analysis Tools - Multiple Ring Buffer Tool and Hyperlinking data. We created a map showing a Conservation Easement linking to an Eagle's Nest image. My RMS data are different because I had to recreate the process in order to create this map. I worked from my office computer for the 3D map above but did not have a way of successfully transferring the data for the map below. This has been one of the added complexities of trying to do this work in different environments. Between UWF, my office and home computer there are no seamless ways to combine all the information necessary to complete the overall tasks. I did get extra practice so I guess it is a good thing in the long run.

Geocoding and ModelBuilder Exercise - Week 12

This week was an extensive introduction to Geocoding and ModelBuilder. We not only read the material in Jensen, took a quiz, completed a 2nd Group Assignment, finished an exercise on the ESRI site but then worked on various part of our lab assignment. In this weeks lab we created an address locator, conducted Geocoding address matching, matched unmatched addresses, enabled and worked with the Network Analysis extension tool to add stops and calculate the optimal route for EMS stops in Lake County, FL. As a result, we created a map with 2 dataframes depicting this work. I had some difficulty the first day I worked on this project and decided to walk away and start fresh today. The final product is below:

Although I know I didn't get everything exactly correct on this project, I believe I learned most of what was expected. I feel at a disadvantage when looking at other student's work because I was not able to take the Cartography class at the same time as this one and know that they are able to add much more to the product than I can. I just feel that it is better to try and produce something rather than walking away completely. I do feel as if I did learn a great deal over the last several weeks working on this project.