Final

So GIS ninjers, this will be my final blog for a while.  I will be graduating this semester and this is my final class.  It is been a LOT of work but I am glad that I've finally finish.  Working full time as an active duty Sailor and taking almost a full load every semester for 3 years will really wear you down.  This project wasn't bad and was a very good representation of all the skills that I have learned over this semester.  I plan on continuing my GIS certificate next year so stay tuned for future progress.  Below you will find my final work, I sure hope it is enough because there were many parts to this project that I forgot and had to go back and tweak.  I suppose I should have followed my model, oh well, you live and you learn!


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So Close!

We are nearing the end of this semesters GISjourney.  I have mixed emotions about this, I have struggled many times during this semester but I feel like I have come out of this class with much more skill than I did when I came into it.  Sadly I will not be continuing my GISjourney at this moment because I will be graduating after this class.  This does not mean that I will be giving up GISing, more like taking some well needed time off.  This is the last official lab for this class before the final and I have honestly started to like the more and more. This weeks lab, while offering the usual headaches of learning something new in ArcMap, was enjoyable for me and only gave me slight trouble(when I didn't read the directions).  The objective was for us to use georeferencing to manipulate polygons to match a raster image.  After this we were also introduced to ArcScene, which is a way to project a 3-D image of data based upon the attribute data.  The past 2 weeks are what I was looking forward to doing when I started to GIS.  I am much more interested in the analysis and manipulation of data rather than creating maps, because I don't have the best creativity.  Luckily, that isn't graded in this class!

UWF Georeferenced Campus Map

This is my georeferenced and edited raster and shapefile image.  I feel like this is one of my better maps that I have produced this semester, even if part of my neatline is cut off :)  Below is a 3-D Digital Elevation Map created using ArcScene and ArcMap.  ArcScene is very much like Google Earth in the navigation tools but offers much more capability.  Well that's all for today GISers! See you for the Final!

3d DEM

Easy, but super cool

This weeks lab was very straightforward and I, for one, am glad that it was .  We investigated the more analytic side of ArcMap and it is way powerful.  I was glad that it was easy and straightforward because without solid instructions it would have been a very difficult task to figure most of this lab out on our own.  For the first part we created our own geolocator database based upon EMS locations in Lake County Florida.  Then we plotted each location and created a route to take us from one EMS location to 2 others.  I would have never figured out how to do that part on my own.  

Lake County EMS Map

For the second part we messed with the Model Builder toolset which allows you to pair the input and output of different tools to create what I would call a complex equation.  This allows you to perform multiple actions without having to do it manually using the outputs of other tools.  Below is a screenshot of the Model Builder tool.  Each tool(the yellow boxes) has a shadow underneath it because it has been ran and it created some layers on my map for me.  I was hesitant about this part before I used it but it is extremely powerful and I can see how creating a template model would benefit someone who runs the same tools often.  Well GIS Ninjas, see you next week!

Model Builder