3/6/08 Class

Good to see you back Pete. It's amazing how I find myself already using what I have learned in class in the real world. I was looking at the Mt Everest region on Goggle Earth the other day and now I understand why the area right around Mt. Everest is a rectangle and the other areas just west of there are not. Sattelite imaging versus thematic. I don't even try to zoom in now in the thematic areas where I always did in the past and did not realize why it was so distorted where as the sattelite imagery is pretty clear as we zoom in. Thanks again for the help with the attribute tables also.

Module 6 Georeferencing

Great Exercise. I enjoyed georeferencing the Bent Creek Trail Map. I did my feature classes a little different in that I made a feature class for each trail type, that way I could assign each type of trail a different color. I also had downloaded a Buncombe County Topo Map from the NCDOT site that needed to be georeferenced and I was able to do it from the instructions from the lecture. I would like to play a little bit more with the attribute table to be able to create a legend with the trail names and numbers.

Video Casts of Module 5

Enjoyed the first video cast, easy to follow and informative. The video cast on Intor to Editing in ARC GIS did not have sound with it, could kind of follow it though.

I downloaded a topo map earlier this week from DOT, it had coordinates that I could not figure out. I am going to try to play with what I learned in the video cast and see if I can create known points on the map and then georeference it.

Class #3 Journal

The more I sit and listen to Pete the less I realize I do not know about mapping. I really learned alot about coordinate systems and geodesy during class #3, but what I learned the most was how much I did not know. I can't wait to start working on our local maps.

Another great fast paced class. I learned enough to be able to access and actually use some of the GIS data we have for the fire department. I hopefully will have enough time to actually make some maps to use in class. Looking forward to Thursday.

Journal

Slowly but surely figuring this post thing out. Having more trouble figuring it out than I did the homework, which was pretty straight forward.