{"id":5381,"date":"2025-09-22T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:33:23","slug":"datta-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/2025\/09\/22\/datta-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Datta &#8211; Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAP 4:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Works with spatial databases and databases in general<\/li>\n<li>You can open folder connections in the right click menu under folders, which will let you access the files without having to locate them every time<\/li>\n<li>there is a geoprocessing tool which can make a shapefile into features called &#8220;Export Features&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Databases can be inputted from .csv files and be made copied and such in the catalog tab<\/li>\n<li>You can populate fields with the Calculate Field tool<\/li>\n<li>GIS synthaxing is in python script<\/li>\n<li>Attribute queries help one search database information<\/li>\n<li>The Spatial Join tool is cool and useful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5541\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_1-300x122.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_1-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_1-768x313.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_1.png 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CHAP 5:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The grid on the first map is called a graticule and is 30 degrees intervals<\/li>\n<li>You can add projects to a spatial map &#8211; whats the difference between a projection and a bookmark?<\/li>\n<li>You can look up the coordinate system of the USA on ArcGIS\u2019s living atlas- what coordinate systems would I need to know for the rest of the world?<\/li>\n<li>You can download census data to use for GIS projects pretty easily on the gov\u2019s website and other stuff on living atlas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5542\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_2-300x289.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_2-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_2-768x740.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_2.png 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CHAP 6:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can use the dissolve block group to separate blocks into specific neighborhoods<\/li>\n<li>You can clip attributes to areas to better study a specific area<\/li>\n<li>You can intersect features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAP 4: \u00a0Works with spatial databases and databases in general You can open folder connections in the right click menu under folders, which will let you access the files without having to locate them every time there is a geoprocessing tool which can make a shapefile into features called &#8220;Export Features&#8221; Databases can be inputted from .csv files and be made copied and such in the catalog tab You can populate fields with the Calculate Field tool GIS synthaxing is in python script Attribute queries help one search database information The Spatial Join tool is cool and useful CHAP 5: The grid on the first map is called a graticule and is 30 degrees intervals You can add projects to a spatial map &#8211; whats the difference between a projection and a bookmark? You can look up the coordinate system of the USA on ArcGIS\u2019s living atlas- what coordinate systems would I need to know for the rest of the world? You can download census data to use for GIS projects pretty easily on the gov\u2019s website and other stuff on living atlas CHAP 6: You can use the dissolve block group to separate blocks into specific neighborhoods You can clip attributes to areas to better study a specific area You can intersect features<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-student-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}