{"id":5427,"date":"2025-10-06T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:31:49","slug":"stratton-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/2025\/10\/06\/stratton-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratton- Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 4-<\/p>\n<p>This chapter I started to have a really fun issue, where I couldn&#8217;t run ArcGIS Pro on my desktop directly. It would continuously try to have me redownload it, so the only way I could open the software was through the tutorial files. So in order to complete tutorial 4-1 and 4-2, I had to open tutorial 4-3, and access the &#8220;create new project&#8221; option through there. I was confused on the shapefiles in 4-1, because they would keep disappearing when I added a new one, but then I learned you had to click open a new tool to save it. I also had trouble in 4-2 with deleting rows in the tables. I had to select them all individually and delete them instead of holding ctrl like the book suggests.\u00a0 I kept getting error messages while trying to calculate the PercentPopYouth20 field, so I ended up skipping that part of the tutorial because it was frustrating me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5803\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Tutorial-4-3-map-300x109.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Tutorial-4-3-map-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Tutorial-4-3-map-1024x372.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Tutorial-4-3-map-768x279.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Tutorial-4-3-map-1536x558.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Tutorial-4-3-map.png 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5806\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/August-Burglaries-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/August-Burglaries-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/August-Burglaries-1024x816.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/August-Burglaries-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/August-Burglaries-1536x1224.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/August-Burglaries.png 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 5-<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter, the first tutorials were simple, just teaching me different projections of the maps.\u00a0 On the third tutorial everything went fine, until i went to change the coordinate systems to what the book instructed and it wasn&#8217;t there so I ended up skipping the California map.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5815\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Allegheny-County-State-Plane-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 6-<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter I learned how to use the pairwise dissolve tool to create neighborhoods.\u00a0 Then I learned how to isolate different study areas using different &#8220;select by&#8221; tools. I also learned how to merge separate features using the &#8220;merge&#8221; tool, as well as adding features using the &#8220;append&#8221; tool. This chapter went very smoothly for me.<\/p>\n<p>\\<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5817\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Block-Groups-and-Neighborhoods-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5825\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/10\/Upper-West-Side-Study-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 4- This chapter I started to have a really fun issue, where I couldn&#8217;t run ArcGIS Pro on my desktop directly. It would continuously try to have me redownload it, so the only way I could open the software was through the tutorial files. So in order to complete tutorial 4-1 and 4-2, I had to open tutorial 4-3, and access the &#8220;create new project&#8221; option through there. I was confused on the shapefiles in 4-1, because they would keep disappearing when I added a new one, but then I learned you had to click open a new tool to save it. I also had trouble in 4-2 with deleting rows in the tables. I had to select them all individually and delete them instead of holding ctrl like the book suggests.\u00a0 I kept getting error messages while trying to calculate the PercentPopYouth20 field, so I ended up skipping that part of the tutorial because it was frustrating me. Chapter 5- In this chapter, the first tutorials were simple, just teaching me different projections of the maps.\u00a0 On the third tutorial everything went fine, until i went to change the coordinate systems to what the book instructed and it wasn&#8217;t there so I ended up skipping the California map. &nbsp; Chapter 6- In this chapter I learned how to use the pairwise dissolve tool to create neighborhoods.\u00a0 Then I learned how to isolate different study areas using different &#8220;select by&#8221; tools. I also learned how to merge separate features using the &#8220;merge&#8221; tool, as well as adding features using the &#8220;append&#8221; tool. This chapter went very smoothly for me. \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5427","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\/5427","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\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}