Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Lab 2: Chapter's 3&4

3A: Map


3B: Map

3C: Map

Chapter 3 Questions:

1. The appropriate order for each data layer are Cities Earhart Visited, Flight Path, Countries, and Graticule.
2. The U.S. Cities along Earhart's path are Oakland, Tuscon, New Orleans, and Miami.
3. The five countries Earhart's fly over are San Juan, Caripito, Paramaribo, Fortaleza, and Natal.
4. Earhart planned to refuel in Howland Island before going on to Hawaii.
5. The distance between Earhart's planned flight finish and probable finish path is about 770 kilometers. (768.55274 kilometers)
6. Howland Island.
7. Earhart visited 28 cities during her journey.
8. The shortest leg in Earhart's journey was about 180.017 kilometers.
9. The longest leg in Earhart's journey was about 3184.838 kilometers.


4A: Screen Shot

4B: Screen Shot

4C: Map

Chapter 4 Questions:
1. The feature classes I used in exercise 4a are cities, countries, disapp_area, and world30.
2. The country population of Australia is 17,827,520.
3. To determine the depth of the ocean you would use Bathymetry.
4. An attribute table of interval vector data is the type of file for number 2.
5. A data frame is a set of data that appears in the table of contents that is viewed in a layout view as a thumbnail of the map in data view.
6. The focus of the second data frame are the Diverging Flight Paths layer and the Area of Disappearance.


1 comment:

  1. Only issues:
    - Ch. 4 #3 is asking for a specific dataset.
    - Ch. 4 #5: a Data Frame is a way of creating multiple maps pertaining to a particular theme on a single layout. Think of it as a map within the map (a sub-map of an ArcMap document).

    Otherwise, good job!

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