Drawing and Symbolizing Features

Well, I finally got through with my project that was due last week for the Drawing and Symbolizing Features. This is exercise 1 and 2 pdf maps.

Zoomed Bunc Bike Map

Bicycle Map Pic

Well for the most part I think I am through with my map until I get to print it in class. I tweaked it a little bit over the past few days but I feel like I learned quite a bit while making this map. The annotation layer was the newest item to get used to but I am even starting to feel a little comfortable with it. I even through trail and error figured out how to copy and paste my road symbols. I found out when you copy and paste it just pastes the symbol over top over the original symbol, so all you have to do is click on the symbol and drag the newly pasted symbol to wherever you want to. I'm still not really happy with my color scheme of my title, legend and reference bar. Oh well, maybe I can tweak than next class.

I did also find some interesting news through a contact Pete introduced to me that works for the Buncombe County GIS Dept. I have been working with her to try to get the .shp files of the Bent Creek Trails on the 911 CAD map. She has been very helpful and we are progressing nicely. I did talk to her this week and she told me to look on the Bunc. County GIS web site, that they had just put the trails on the site within the centerline data of the streets. Low and behold when I pulled up the streets there they were. Cool. There are even some of the trails on the downloadable Bunc. County centerline data, but not all of them. Look forward to seeing everyone's map on tuesday, so I can see what I can do to improve mine. Alot of smart, talented people in the class and I am still a little intimidated by you guys, but it has made it great learning enviornment. So thanks.

Bicycle Map

Just got through with my rough draft of my bicycle map. Now I got to study a little bit for the test tonight. (Missed last week).

Mapping Batch Geocode

Sometimes you have to be careful what you learned in class, it just might suck you into a black hole as it did me this past week. I was asked at the end of last week if I could do a report for the fire department I work for which would give the data of how many runs we have had in the Cliff's development this year. The light bulb clicked almost immediately. I could create a crystal report giving the addresses of our runs in our district 2, which is where the cliffs is located. I could then take that report and export it to an excel file. I then copied that excel file and pasted it in the program Pete had shared with us last week, batchgeocode.com. The batch geocode.com did not like that I had enter 600 addresses it said no more than 500 should be entered. So I went back and copied 500 and enter those. It ran very quickly until it got to #400 and then it went to a crawl. It finally finished up and I had my x & Y data enter that data into a map I had already started creating and away we went. My next problem was getting the street labels to look clean. I never did quite accomplish that. Attached you will see my unfinished product. Maybe I will learn more tonight to clean up this project.

1st GIS 121 Map

Here is my first GIS 121 Map. A map on the Leaf International World OUTREACH Locations.