Week 6 Location Decision

Week 5 ESRI

Very few problems with this weeks assignments. Still working on last deliverable.

Oil Spill part I

Ummmm I cant seem to upload my kmz file here. I sent to the dropbox so I hope that works, I got an email saying I put something in the dropbox though.
Many problems this week. Started off putting things in the wrong projection, didn't know not to just do that to begin with. I learned what 'dissolve' meant, hopefully I can remember how to do it. Still have no idea what a kml or kmz file it, but I think I turned my in to the dropbox properly.

Deliv. #4 and 5

Cannot get the system to work. I have been trying for seriously 4 hours and I either get "Not Responding" or the system freezes then crashes on me. I'm hoping things are working in the next 20 mins (I need to go to bed because I have an 830am class in the morn) or I pray I have enough time (I get out of class at noon) and the system works tomorrow. I started working on #4 a few days ago and I can only get the data frame prop and enviro and all the beginning stuff set. After I load counties then streets and then try to label major interstates and US Hwys thats when the system goes nuts.

SOOOOOOO, if things go well and I am able to complete 4 and 5, this is my post for it!

Humbug on GIS right now.

Land-cover Affected by Flooding (Deliv. #2and 3, Week 3)

I had a major malfunction with this map. It was simple problem that I thought was a big problem. In the reclass step (ArcTools/Spatial Analysis/ Reclass/ Reclassify) I was entering everything correctly except how I was trying to save. I was just deleting the tail end of the file name and entering the new (reclandcover). I finally fixed the problem by clicking on the folder button at the end of the space and going through and placing the data where I wanted it that way and then typing in the new name. I have no idea why this small step fixed the issue, but this was one of the problems I had that took about 3 hours to fix. BUT I learned something so it wasn't a wasted 3 hours.

Coastal Counties in MS (Deliv. #1 Week 3)

This was the first deliverable map. I didn't find it very difficult once I got going. I did have a few issues when I was reviewing the metadata, like where some of the info was coming from (Time preriod). Instructions were rather easy to follow and very informative, before starting a new step it was explained what we were trying to accomplish. For me this is good because I get very confused if I don't know what or why I am doing it.