Week 10-

This lab was very clear about what needed to be accomplished, join a database file with a shapefile, to calculate the acreage of parcels, and then use the select by attribute functions to determine the four largest landowners. I wish I had done this over spring break.

Week 9 - Overlays

Q1: I used intersect to create my layer, visually I didn't notice a difference. However; in the attribute table I did notice there were two records with intersect, compared to four with union.

Q2: I used the erase tool for my results, because I needed to subtract the overlapping areas to eliminate them from being candidates for possible camp sites.

Q3: I ended up with 81 features, my largest area was 775,304 sq. meters, and my smallest was 748.11 sq. meters.

Week 7

This was a great, quick assingment, that helped me recharge my batteries quite a bit. Everything clicked with this project, the only complaint I have is that ESRI spoon feeds you through thte entire exercise, so it makes the challenge dissapear, I know for me just reading and following everything step by step, makes it harder for me to actually learn something. I wish their assignments didn't hold my had as much as they do.