Abbey S Week 5

Chapter 6:

 6a

• I was able to work on the tree inventory data up until I had to publish it because I kept getting a pop up that my account does not have publishing privileges?? Idk if anyone else ran into this problem, but I was not able to find a solution so I couldn’t complete the rest of chapter 6 🙁
• Here’s my sad little screenshot

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Chapter 7:

7a

• Geocoding- able to create data from collected points of interest
• To geocode addresses , you need-
  • Address table (list of addresses stored as database or text file)
  • Reference data (usually streets layer, where addresses are located)
  • Address locator (contains reference data+ geocoding rules/settings)

7b

• Geocode location data

7c

• Buffers- polygons created around features at specified distances
• Using GIS in this way can help businesses evaluate the best locations

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Chapter 8

8a

• Temporal data
  • Data w time attribute
• Kernel density
  • Calculates the density of features in an area around those features

8b

• I think the 3d stuff is pretty cool 😀

8c

• Not much to comment on this exercise, but the scene is much easier to look at now

8d

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Chapter 9

9a

9b

• At this time, no parts are in complete shadow
• 3 to 4 planting sites have low-slope topology
• 4 planting sites include land that faces S, SE, or SW
• No planting sites in shadow @ 2pm
• Some sites meet ⅔ criteria, but not all 3

9c

• Greenfield fine sandy loam, Xerorthents, loamy, Rincon clay loam
• Yes, some of the potential sites have been planted

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Chapter 10

10a

• 43 areas are fixed wireless technology
• For whatever reason I wasn’t allowed to change the color scheme

10b

• Labels- based on feature attributes and placed by/ on a feature

10c

• Map frames- containers for maps in a page layout
• Changing the map extent does not affect actual map
• Legend helps readers understand the features on the map
• Scale bar indicates the size of distances/ features on a map
• North arrow indicates north

10 d