{"id":7774,"date":"2026-10-02T18:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:15:36","slug":"mcmahon-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/2026\/10\/02\/mcmahon-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"McMahon week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 7<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter, I thought it was interesting that there was a tool to &#8220;smooth&#8221; tool to make the edges around an area smoother. Overall I thought this chapter was straight forward and I got to practice more with the attribute tables and exploring new tools. 7-4 was a bit tricky because it wasn&#8217;t very clear on where I needed to go, but I ended up getting help and figured out how to rotate the image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7779\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-6-829x622.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 8<\/p>\n<p>The main focuses were about zip code and addresses and I during both 8-1 and 8-2, the ending steps got a bit vague and harder to understand. I overall think that I missed up my maps for this chapter but I thought it was helpful to get some practice with zip codes and addresses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7816\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-8-829x622.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 9<\/p>\n<p>I thought this chapter was interesting because of the use of the Spatial Join tool. After I figured out how to work it, it was interesting to see the what could be changed after using this tool. In \u00a09-3 I got a little lost towards the end so again I think I messed up my map. I thought it was cool to use the Location Allocation tool and change the input and outputs. Overall I think this chapter introduced some new tools and allowed me to practice with them throughout the chapter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7814\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-7-829x622.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7775\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-4-829x622.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 7 In this chapter, I thought it was interesting that there was a tool to &#8220;smooth&#8221; tool to make the edges around an area smoother. Overall I thought this chapter was straight forward and I got to practice more with the attribute tables and exploring new tools. 7-4 was a bit tricky because it wasn&#8217;t very clear on where I needed to go, but I ended up getting help and figured out how to rotate the image. &nbsp; Chapter 8 The main focuses were about zip code and addresses and I during both 8-1 and 8-2, the ending steps got a bit vague and harder to understand. I overall think that I missed up my maps for this chapter but I thought it was helpful to get some practice with zip codes and addresses. Chapter 9 I thought this chapter was interesting because of the use of the Spatial Join tool. After I figured out how to work it, it was interesting to see the what could be changed after using this tool. In \u00a09-3 I got a little lost towards the end so again I think I messed up my map. I thought it was cool to use the Location Allocation tool and change the input and outputs. Overall I think this chapter introduced some new tools and allowed me to practice with them throughout the chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","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\/7774","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\/2431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}