{"id":5725,"date":"2025-09-26T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:53:06","slug":"kozak-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/2025\/09\/26\/kozak-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kozak Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I definitely struggled with this section more than previous chapters. I felt some sections were really good at explaining the content and others brushed through it or had us doing something that was previously gone over but I couldn\u2019t quite remember how to do it without having to flip through a bunch of pages to find the explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chapter 4:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter four focused on file geodatabases. The various sections went over importing data into a new ArcGIS pro project, modifying attribute tables, carrying out attribute queries, aggregating data with spatial joints, using central point features for polygons, and creating a new table for a one-to &#8211; many join. In section 4.5, I was having trouble\u00a0 figuring out how to use calculated geometry attributes. X and y coordinates weren\u2019t showing up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5726\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5727\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.6-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.6-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.6-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.6-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.6-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/4.6.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Chapter 5:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter five\u2019s focus was on spatial data. In this chapter we learned how to work with world map projections, work with US map projections, setting projected coordinate systems, work with vector data formats, work with US Census map layers and data tables, and download geospatial data. I definitely had the most trouble with downloading the geospatial data and getting the data to present how I wanted. I also had trouble with the csv file and getting the data to upload but I eventually worked it out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5728\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/5.1-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/5.1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/5.1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/5.1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/5.1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/5.1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Chapter 6:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter 6 was all about geoprocessing. The topics discussed were dissolving features to create neighborhoods and fire divisions and battalions, extracting data and clipping features for a study area, merging water features, appending firehouses and police stations to EMS facilities, intersecting features to determine streets in fore company zones, using Union on neighborhoods and land-use features, and using the tabulate intersection tool. This chapter felt less difficult than the previous two. The merging of feature classes ran smoothly and I felt like I understood these sections better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5729\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.3-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.3.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5730\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.5-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.5-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.5-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/6.5.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely struggled with this section more than previous chapters. I felt some sections were really good at explaining the content and others brushed through it or had us doing something that was previously gone over but I couldn\u2019t quite remember how to do it without having to flip through a bunch of pages to find the explanation. Chapter 4: Chapter four focused on file geodatabases. The various sections went over importing data into a new ArcGIS pro project, modifying attribute tables, carrying out attribute queries, aggregating data with spatial joints, using central point features for polygons, and creating a new table for a one-to &#8211; many join. In section 4.5, I was having trouble\u00a0 figuring out how to use calculated geometry attributes. X and y coordinates weren\u2019t showing up.\u00a0 Chapter 5: Chapter five\u2019s focus was on spatial data. In this chapter we learned how to work with world map projections, work with US map projections, setting projected coordinate systems, work with vector data formats, work with US Census map layers and data tables, and download geospatial data. I definitely had the most trouble with downloading the geospatial data and getting the data to present how I wanted. I also had trouble with the csv file and getting the data to upload but I eventually worked it out.\u00a0 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 was all about geoprocessing. The topics discussed were dissolving features to create neighborhoods and fire divisions and battalions, extracting data and clipping features for a study area, merging water features, appending firehouses and police stations to EMS facilities, intersecting features to determine streets in fore company zones, using Union on neighborhoods and land-use features, and using the tabulate intersection tool. This chapter felt less difficult than the previous two. The merging of feature classes ran smoothly and I felt like I understood these sections better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","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\/5725","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\/2320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}