The GIF Animator is amazing! Not difficult and really easy which helps since lab 8 was such a beast. I completed the first three animations and did not change much about them. For the grad symbol and dot density maps I put the speed at 1 second per map and the chloropleth, i put like 115th for the pause, because I wanted it to remain up longer than the other two. The differences between the colors takes a little longer to determine than the dots or triangles on the other two maps.
Lab 8 December 5, 2007
Lab 8 involves exporting all of the maps out of GIS. My first set I am exporting is the chloropleth maps. I chose the 1900-1910 map first, I am exporting a general legend with that map, that will be used with all of the maps. I chose not to use a scale and extra features, would just clutter the map. Im sticking to the simple layout view. I added a simple north arrow, nothing too complicated, and a small scale bar, using the insert menu in the layout view. I set the zoom control to 100% and added a border using the neatline tool under in the insert menu.
Lab 5 October 17, 2007
almost complete, it took awhile to get all my information together. I added the St. Louis City data separately since it is considered its own “county”. How confusing is that? A St. Louis County, and a St. Louis City, which is basically its own county. Anyway, the data has now been added and joined to arc map. The problem was after I deleted it, I saved the document as a database, then I went back to reenter the city data, it wouldn’t save. So I had to save as a text document, then save as a database 4 document, while the text document was open. However it happened, the data is altogether, and joined into arcmap.
Lab 4 October 3, 2007
10/3
I made highway maps of both nevada and Georgia. Completely different, considering Georgia has many highways and Nevada has few. The differences between the two are neat. Both I started out with block census groups, which I left alone on the Nevada map, just changing the color. The Georgia map I changed to population changes within the BCGs. To add some more to the Nevada map, I added rivers, but the Georgia map was too cluttered for other features.
Field Trip!! October 3, 2007
So tomorrow we leave for Pennsylvania. So excited, field trips are the best part about being a geomajor! It will be a 6 hour drive there, 3 days of looking at rocks and a 6 hour drive back. If you are going to be spending a weekend doing work, what a way to do it!! I just wish my tentmate were coming, we will miss you Annie! Feel better soon!
Lab 3 October 3, 2007
Excel, not that hard to use, and I’ve used it before. But I can never seem to remember how to do the simplest tasks. Once I do them over again, I get the de ja vu feeling all over again, and so it goes, because honestly I use it just a couple times a year. This class will be good, since I will probably using Excel alot more, and maybe by the end of the semester I will actually understand the basics.
Lab 2 September 24, 2007
I have been having trouble with the writing tools or whatever its called. The tiniest thing is wrong and it doesn’t work. Why do they have to make it so difficult, of course most people don’t have to worry about using the program. I have been trying to change the body color, and can’t figure it out, I don’t want a dull white background with black letters. My google-mashup went alright, I still need to add the link to my page, plus the links back. The whole web page needs to be creative, something my brain lacks. It will take some tweaking and tinkering.
Lab 1 September 24, 2007
9/9/07- chosen to do the state of Missouri.
~yahoo directory search: regional—US States—Missouri
From there research community, people, history for particular cities, regions, or counties.
It took a few minutes to peruse the US Census WWW site, but I found resident population and located the state of Missouri. Graphs and data popped up. Also checked out the percent growth and redistribution of population, compared the US to Missouri alone, which didn’t have a high amount of redistribution or percent growth, except a small region in the southeast. Further searching found all kinds of statistical data reports on Missouri alone, not all the states together. The site is helpful and set-up fairly well, not difficult at all.
The keyword searches I found to be much easier and straightforward, as well as providing more options for the info which I was attempting to find. I checked a few different websites before I found exactly what I was looking for, at the Missouri State Census data page. This site provides information just on the state of Missouri, there is no searching for the correct info then finding the state.
Although the Yahoo Directory site was helpful and not hard to search, I definitely preferred using Google as a keyword search. Google was much easier and straightforward, or I might just prefer because I have used it so often and have never done a search through a directory. It might take some time to get used to it, but as for now I prefer keyword searches.
