Saturday, February 27, 2010

Week 6 Georeferencing























This assignment was a lot of fun, it would have been even more fun had I read the instructions all the way through before starting on it. I added my control points and updated the georeference before I wrote down the RMS value for the first part of the lab. I tried to fiigrue out f there was a way I could find out the info I hadd added again, but I didn't have much lusck with that, so I started over and did it again. This time I read all the instructions.

My RMS Values are:
UWF_n: RMS= 7.43321, 1st Order
UWF_s1: RMS=2.77766, 3rd Order

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Week 3: Mexico

















The first map of Mexico depicts the States and their population.

The second map is of Central Mexico, showing its urban areas, railroads, federal highways, and rivers. This portion actually caused me some troubles. Not with the map, but with the legend. I'm still not sure why the legend style changed, but I had to go in to the styles and play around to get them to dispay properly.



The third and final map shows the elevations in Central Mexico.

This post was accidentally posted on my Cartographic skills blog on 2/3/2010. You can view it by clicking the following link. Cartographic Skills

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Week 4 participation post

This was a map on the ESRI site showing and overview of the hospital damage in Port au Prince.

Week 4- Coordinate Systems


The area, in square miles, was calculated for four counties (Escambia, Alachua, Miami-Dade and Polk), using three different projections system. Each system had differnet area values for each county, with UTM seeming to vary the most between the thres systems.