Geography 291: Geospatial Analysis with Desktop GIS

Chapter 4

Got through this chapter with no serious issues, but this is the point of the book where many settings don’t show up easily/have been changed slightly making them difficult to find/use. Luckily, I was able to figure it out, but it took much longer than it should have because of it.

 

Chapter 5

This is where I started having issues. The census data from tutorial 5-5 was not downloading from the website, despite using multiple browsers and devices, so that tutorial remains uncomplete. I was also unable to complete the “Download local data from a public agency hub” section as the data that is required is erased from the website. However, everything that did work went smoothly and settings were easy to find.

Chapter 6

Luckily, I had no serious problems with Chapter 6. The one thing that kept tripping me up was the fact that I kept joining tables the wrong way, by adding fields to the wrong table. I feel very confident in myself regarding this chapter, and don’t see myself having to go back to it often.

Chapter 7

Absolutely no problems here. I enjoyed doing some more of the easier graphic design aspects of GIS rather than the more intense calculations or learning all of the tools.

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Chapter 8

Again, no issues here. Very easy and short chapter, though I can definitely see its usefulness when dealing with lots of different maps at the same time.

 

 

Chapter 4

The first issue I ran into with this chapter was at tutorial 2.  When trying to transform the values for the row we created GEOIDNum it would not calculate them, and instead gave me an error message that there are “no records within table, or selection set has 0 records”.  I had the correct code created to do it GEOIDNum=!GEOID10!. In the created GEOIDNum row where it says the calculations are supposed to appear it just says Null. I ran into the same issue trying to calculate PopYouthUnder20. In fact the whole rest of tutorial 2 did not work for me. I had no other issues.

Chapter 5

The first issue I had with chapter five was at the end of tutorial 5. It just kept giving me an error code when I tried to make GEOIDNUM equal to GEOID but it just said an unexpected error so I am assuming it was an issue with the program and not something I did wrong. Similarly then the whole last Join Data and create a chloropleth map would not work. I think the issue is that my bike data was saying it was inputted and it was not. I redid it multiple times and every time it said it worked but it did not. The last issue I ran into was the very last part of tutorial 6. From the online database we were supposed to get our data from they no longer had the data set we were supposed to use. Overall this chapter was hard and frustrating for me, things went wrong I got confused and had to redo stuff often.

Chapter 6

The first issue I ran into with this chapter was in tutorial 2. I could not figure out how to export just the selected features, or streets. Ok scratch that it took me forever but I finally found where you export only selected features. Other than that small hiccup this chapter went very well.

Chapter 7

This chapter went well. I did not have any problems. It is more overwhelming to work on an Imagery base map but it didn’t slow me down just annoyed me.

Chapter 8

I have nothing to say about chapter 8, I had no issues and it was short and sweet.

Chapter 1:

I personally found the start of this chapter monotonous but that comes with learning a new program. Once I got the hang of it I was able to get through the tutorials fairly quick. The biggest problem I have with ArcGIS is finding stuff and I sometimes just sat for 5-6 minutes looking for something, quite literally, right in front of me. Other than that this chapter went pretty smoothly.

Chapter 2:

Chapter 2’s tutorials also went well aside from the data being corrupted in Tutorial 2-3 I believe so I ended up skipping it. It was a pretty cool getting to see how  much thought goes into fonts and text colors when naming the neighborhoods and water ways. I did struggle to find the white halo effect for the neighborhood text but otherwise things went well.

Chapter 3:

I struggled with the online sharing and may need to look at it later but I really enjoyed making the map and legend page. It was also cool to see the other side of GIS with making the bar graph and how diverse the system can be with showing data. Other than the online issue, things went well but I still get lost and can’t find stuff for a bit.

Chapter 4:

I had multiple complications with this chapter. About halfway through, I got stuck on the first tutorial and ended up redoing my work, but I reached the same outcome while trying to create the MaricopaTracts geodatabase. I had to skip the first two tutorials and continued with tutorial three without any more issues. 

Chapter 5:

Similar to Chapter 4, I had a few issues with this chapter. The first problem I encountered was in tutorial 3 when trying to add data in the layer group, browsing Chapter5.gdb I was unable to locate the Municipalities dataset. Similarly, in tutorial 6, I could not find the items from the National Land Cover Database when searching Living Atlas.

Chapter 6:

Thankfully, Chapter 6 went relatively smoothly, with only one issue. During tutorial 6 I couldn’t figure out how to use the NTAName field to join the BrooklynNeighborhoodsResidentialLandUse table to BrooklynNeighborhoods. 

Chapter 7:

Chapter 7 went smoothly; the only thing I couldn’t figure out was how to use the Split tool.

Chapter 8: 

Chapter 8 was pretty simple, but I did encounter one issue in tutorial 2. I couldn’t get the street locator tool to create the Streets_CreateLocator even though the tool said it was successful. 

 

Ch. 1  ArcGIS pro

This is such fun software! It was hard to get used to at first, but with practice and repetition, all was well. My favorite was Ch1Tut4 when we got to make features 3D. It’s like if a bar graph and a map had a baby. My eyes hurt now so I’m done here. Excited for 3 more hours in the GIS lab next week.

Tutorial 2

forgor to take a picture for tutorial 3 and 4 rip

why are there so many for chapter 2

Ch. 2

accidentally  eliminated the map for tutorial 1 and i dont know how to get it back so… moving on to tutorial 2-2

tutorial 3

tutorial 4

tutorial 5

tutorial 6

tutorial 7

tutorial 8

chapter 3

tutorial 1

i got lost this is as far as i got:

tutorial 2

wouldn’t let me share it online because i dont have the privledges (??) so couldn’t go any further. but now i know how to share!

tut 3 story map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0a6ca81879c74582834cf809981f4ed5

tutorial 4 map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/0af898a2311a4ad79e6f440dd7fa42e9

 

 

Chapter 1 –

Everything in this chapter was pretty easy and straightforward. The first time I tried running the program though it tried backing up my files and the computer froze. Getting to mess around in the 3D environment was cool, it reminded me of a project called 177776: The Future of Football, that I highly recommend reading. That project makes frequent use of models like the one we were working with in this chapter.

Chapter 2 –

My popups don’t seem to populate with any information, but as it hasn’t stopped me from what I need to do yet I’m finishing the work I’m assigned and will figure it out later. Ran into an error with tutorial 2.4 where the “Over age 60 receiving food stamps” layer didn’t have a valid data source, unsure how to fix that. The language in the text book of “Out Beyond” is outdated for Maximum/Minimum scale and I wasted a few minutes looking for a feature that’s not in the program.

Chapter 3 –

Sometimes the textbook refers to the Content Pane as the Catalog Pane and that’s caused me confusion. In 3.2 I am unable to share the maps because I don’t have publishing privileges. I don’t know what could be causing this issue, as I did all the registration steps that we needed to for ArcGIS. In 3.3 it said I am unable to log in to my account, not that my account didn’t exist, so I’m not sure what to do there but I did read the chapter. This barrier also means I can’t complete 3.4. I’ll come back for these assignments, but there’s other work I need to finish for this class first.

Chapter 1

This chapter went super smoothly for me and I ran into minimal problems if any. A couple times I used the search tool to find a specific button or task, but other than that it was straightforward to me. I included pictures of some of the maps/”your turn” section assignments. This chapter did take me a long time to complete, but I think it was mostly due to me trying to get comfortable with the software.

 

Chapter 2

This chapter is where I ran into more problems. First, I struggled to complete some of the labels, especially the water labels in one of the tutorials. Update, halfway through I realized that I just wasn’t pressing the “Label” button. Second, I got lost trying to make the streets into a ground layer. Third, I couldn’t do any of tutorial 2-4 (I think that’s the right one) because my Over age 60 neighborhood layer said there was no data source. Not exactly sure how that happened, but oh well. In this chapter I thought the swipe feature was really cool, and I’m excited to use that in the future.  Other than those few issues, this chapter was pretty smooth sailing and took a lot less time than chapter 1, since I was more comfortable with the system.

 

Chapter 3

This chapter went okay. The tutorials weren’t hard to follow I just ran into a couple issues that prevented me from completing the whole tutorial. In 3-1, I had problems creating and adding the charts. They just wouldn’t show up for some reason. Regardless, I was still able to get my layout with the two maps and legends completed. Tutorial 3-2 said I didn’t have sharing privileges, which I’m not sure how to fix, considering I created the GIS online account. I can try to figure it out later if need be. It also wouldn’t let me log into my ArcGIS online account so I am really confused about that. I’ll try again next week to see if I can figure it out. This made 3-3 and 3-4 relatively impossible for me to do unfortunately as well. Hopefully next week I can figure it out 🙂

Chapter 1: It was a slow start for me as I was getting used to where all of the buttons were. I had trouble with clearing the attribute table because it kept telling me the clear button was at the top and it ended up being at the bottom. It’s fun to mess around with the maps.

Chapter 2:
This one once again started smoothly but I can’t for the life of me figure out where the dialog launcher is. I also had to separately add the files for neighborhoods on 2-4 because it kept saying there were no properties.

Chapter 3:
This one took a while because uploading the maps online took almost 10 minutes each. I’m now running into an issue with loading the second map, it keeps disappearing while uploading which makes me have to re-do the steps. I’ll come back to the online uploads.

Chapter 1

Nearly everything went smoothly for me. Whenever I tried something, it worked, but I could not figure out to rename a column in the attribute tables using Aliases. Even with things being slightly different due to software updates to ArcGIS, everything was very straightforward.

Chapter 2.

Again, nearly everything went smoothly. Even though there were more new concepts and tools being thrown at me than chapter one, the work felt just as manageable. However, my 2-4 Tutorial file got corrupted, so I was not able to finish that specific tutorial. I really enjoyed learning about visibility ranges, and I can see myself using them a lot in the future.

Chapter 3

The first tutorial went just fine, but I must have forgotten to register for ArcGIS Online, as I cannot post any of my maps nor login. In spite of this hinderance, I did as much as I could on ArcGIS Pro and will make sure to go back and finish the online work once my account is setup.\

 

Chapter 1

This chapter went really well. I felt really cool making it. Everything was straightforward and I had no issues. It’s surprising to me how much really goes into these maps.

Chapter 2

Similar to chapter 1, I had no issues. The mapping was really fun and cool. The slider tool was really fun to play around with too. Some of the features that the book refers to are either labeled differently or in a different place, but I eventually found it.

Chapter 3

This is where I ran into some issues. ArcPro would not let me do online sharing, so i was unable to complete some of what was need for 3.1 –>3.4. However, making the layout was really interesting as wells as the bar graph.