{"id":5513,"date":"2025-09-22T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:42:06","slug":"becker-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/2025\/09\/22\/becker-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Becker- Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Chapter 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>database-<\/strong> container for the data of an organization, project, or other undertaking for record keeping, decision-making, analysis, or research\n<ul>\n<li>geodatabase is Esri&#8217;s database for geospatial data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 4-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>software automatically creates geodatabase when you start an ArcGIS project<\/li>\n<li>can connect to other folders for easy access<\/li>\n<li><strong>shapefile-\u00a0<\/strong>spatial data format for a single point, line, or polygon layer<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5514\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-20-165208-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-20-165208-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-20-165208.png 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 4-2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>much of what is displayed by GIS depends on attributes- columns of data in tables<\/li>\n<li>you can download data from external sources (ex: US Census Bureau) to map<\/li>\n<li>added a column to Tracts attribute table<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5532\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-213733-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-213733-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-213733-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-213733.png 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 4-3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GIS links tabular data to spatial features in feature classes<\/li>\n<li>SQL criterion: attribute name &lt;logical operator&gt; attribute value<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5535\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-223440-300x231.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-223440-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-21-223440.png 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 4-4<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>count burglaries by neighborhood<\/li>\n<li>created choropleth map based on the join count I added<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 4-5<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GIS creates central points when you use graduated colors for symbology for polygon layer<\/li>\n<li>created fields to find coordinates of central points<\/li>\n<li>Feature to Point calculates central points instead of centroids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 4-6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>creating code table and necessary fields\/data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Chapter 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learn about latitude and longitude coordinates and their geographic coordinate system<\/li>\n<li><strong>map projections-\u00a0<\/strong>making flat maps from the nearly spherical earth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 5-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longitude: 0-180 east to west<\/li>\n<li>Latitude: 0-90 north to south<\/li>\n<li>100+ map projection in GIS<\/li>\n<li><strong>graticule-\u00a0<\/strong>networks of lines on the map (30-degree intervals east-west and north-south)<\/li>\n<li>changed map shape<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5545\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-134703-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-134703-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-134703.png 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 5-2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>working with US map projections<\/li>\n<li>Albers equal-area standard projection for US Geographical Survey (USGS) and US Census Bureau for US maps<\/li>\n<li>larger part of world you need the more distortion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 5-3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foe medium\/large scale maps use localized projected coordinate systems specific to the study area<\/li>\n<li>need to use a reference map to determine what zone you are in to apply the correct coordinate systems<\/li>\n<li>adding layer adopted new coordinate system to the map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 5-4<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>review file formats for vector spatial data<\/li>\n<li>GPS and many other databases provide coordinates with x,y values<\/li>\n<li><b>KML <\/b>is\u00a0the file format used to display geographic data in many mapping applications (international standard for Open Geospatials Consortium)<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5550\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-143900-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-143900-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-143900.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 5-5<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use data from US Census Bureau<\/li>\n<li>learned how to clean up data in Excel<\/li>\n<li>trying to export files into the ArcGIS crashed my computer and I had to restart it and couldn&#8217;t finish the tutorial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 5-6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>rasters are large files and should probable be stored elsewhere<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5572\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-215458-288x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-215458-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-215458.png 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Bicycle Count Stations wasn&#8217;t there where it said it would be<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Chapter 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>geoprocessing-\u00a0<\/strong>framework and set of tools for processing geographic data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5574\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-222507-177x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-222507-177x300.png 177w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-222507.png 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>workflow for creating study region from layers that have more features than needed<\/li>\n<li>created feature class from selected features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>merging water features into a new single layer<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5578\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-224303-300x288.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-224303-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-224303.png 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-4<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use Append tool to add features to an existing feature class<\/li>\n<li>Added FireHouses and PoliceStations to the attribute table<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-5<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>intersecting features to determine streets in company fire zones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Union tool overlays geometry and attributes of two input polygon layers to generate a new output layer<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5582\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-232318-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-232318-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-232318.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorial 6-7<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5585\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-234000-258x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-234000-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-22-234000.png 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 4 database- container for the data of an organization, project, or other undertaking for record keeping, decision-making, analysis, or research geodatabase is Esri&#8217;s database for geospatial data Tutorial 4-1 software automatically creates geodatabase when you start an ArcGIS project can connect to other folders for easy access shapefile-\u00a0spatial data format for a single point, line, or polygon layer Tutorial 4-2 much of what is displayed by GIS depends on attributes- columns of data in tables you can download data from external sources (ex: US Census Bureau) to map added a column to Tracts attribute table Tutorial 4-3 GIS links tabular data to spatial features in feature classes SQL criterion: attribute name &lt;logical operator&gt; attribute value Tutorial 4-4 count burglaries by neighborhood created choropleth map based on the join count I added Tutorial 4-5 GIS creates central points when you use graduated colors for symbology for polygon layer created fields to find coordinates of central points Feature to Point calculates central points instead of centroids Tutorial 4-6 creating code table and necessary fields\/data Chapter 5 learn about latitude and longitude coordinates and their geographic coordinate system map projections-\u00a0making flat maps from the nearly spherical earth Tutorial 5-1 Longitude: 0-180 east to west Latitude: 0-90 north to south 100+ map projection in GIS graticule-\u00a0networks of lines on the map (30-degree intervals east-west and north-south) changed map shape Tutorial 5-2 working with US map projections Albers equal-area standard projection for US Geographical Survey (USGS) and US Census Bureau for US maps larger part of world you need the more distortion Tutorial 5-3 Foe medium\/large scale maps use localized projected coordinate systems specific to the study area need to use a reference map to determine what zone you are in to apply the correct coordinate systems adding layer adopted new coordinate system to the map Tutorial 5-4 review file formats for vector spatial data GPS and many other databases provide coordinates with x,y values KML is\u00a0the file format used to display geographic data in many mapping applications (international standard for Open Geospatials Consortium) Tutorial 5-5 use data from US Census Bureau learned how to clean up data in Excel trying to export files into the ArcGIS crashed my computer and I had to restart it and couldn&#8217;t finish the tutorial Tutorial 5-6 rasters are large files and should probable be stored elsewhere Bicycle Count Stations wasn&#8217;t there where it said it would be Chapter 6 geoprocessing-\u00a0framework and set of tools for processing geographic data Tutorial 6-1 Tutorial 6-2 workflow for creating study region from layers that have more features than needed created feature class from selected features Tutorial 6-3 merging water features into a new single layer Tutorial 6-4 use Append tool to add features to an existing feature class Added FireHouses and PoliceStations to the attribute table Tutorial 6-5 intersecting features to determine streets in company fire zones Tutorial 6-6 Union tool overlays geometry and attributes of two input polygon layers to generate a new output layer Tutorial 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