A) Class Exercises
Google Search “GIS Apllication”
B) Class Readings
C) ArcGIS
D) Delaware Data
E) Project
location -
Middle computer middle row west side of room
C:\Courses\Geog_355\Jolliff\Energy
the document is titled “Energy Map.mxd”
Project Timeline (Tice, Pinkerton, Varner)
Week 1 (March 19-23)
- Begin to organize and establish a spreadsheet with a all necessary data
- Use data Sean sent us containing residential listings, energy costs, and a record of which buildings have air conditioning units.
- Email reslife to obtain residential counts for all buildings listed for residential use.
Week 2 (March 26-30)
- 2. Complete spreadsheet
- Utilize data sent to us by reslife and add it to the existing spreadsheet
- Establish how we want to normalize data in spreadsheet
- Calculate averages depending on how we want to normalize data
Week 3 (April 2-6)
- 3. Finalize datasheet and Begin creating map
- Look over and check all information in spreadsheet to make sure there
- Normalize data and compare with academic segment of project
- If time begin creating image in Arcmap
Week 4 ( April 9-13)
- 4. Work toward compiling and accurately reflecting all data on a table in Arcmap
- Organize data sheet
- Use address matching to pinpoint the locations of where our data is being represented.
- Continue to compare and work with academic segment of project.
Week 5 ( April 16-20)
- 5. Continue to work on map
- Add keys/legends…ect
- Work toward finishing map
Week 6 ( April 23-27)
- 6. Finish up mapping and begin to prepare presentation
- Finish touching up the map and adding detail to improve imaging
- Begin to organize short presentation (be able to explain all steps of the project)
Ponds 2008 – shows the size, shape and area for all the ponds in the Delaware County in 2008
Ponds 2010 -shows the size, shape and area for all the ponds in the Delaware County in 2010; were some changes since 2008.
Address points – depicts the structures along public and private road within Delaware County
Masters – the original data layer used for the making of the address points layer
Annexation – contains the annexations and conforming boundaries within Delaware County
Archeological- shows all the archeological sites within the Delaware County
Bench marks – contains GPS locations of specific spots that are reference points for some sort of measurement
Building layers – for 06, 08, and 2010 show the representative shapes for buildings that existed in each of the years; some mild changes in the number of buildings between the years.
Census Block – shows what looks like a basic map of Delaware roads and rivers; attribute table contains many categories of U.S. census data for individual areas.
Census Block Group – the many zones/districts that Delaware is split into for measuring census data; sub-districts
Census Tract – is similar to the block group, because it appears to be split into several districts in order to accurately measure a different type of census data than the block group layer. the districts on both maps are slightly different.
Economic development layers:
TIF All – some sort of economic development that seems to be mostly taking place just outside of populated area; the development of new parks?
CRA EZ All- massive features representing some sort of economic development; city owned property?
CDP All – hard to determine but by looking at the attribute table it looks like a map of all new neighborhoods and living quarters that have been built since the year 2000.
ABT All- many random buildings by looking at the attribute table it looks like it might be new office buildings that have been built since 1995.
Farm lot- individual lots that were all originally farm land but now have been broken into plots of various tracts of land.
Flood plain 100yr – the potential area that could be flooded using data from the most severe weather storms in the past 100 years
Flood plain 2009 – the potential flooding areas for 2009
Flood plain 500yr – the potential for floods using weather data over a 500 year forecast;larger than the 100 yr plain.
Floodway – where all the water goes after storms in Delaware, it mostly seems to be creeks, streams, ect
Historical local – showing locally recognized historical sites within Delaware county
Historical national – showing locations of all historical sites in Delaware County that are nationally registered.
Hydro- the major bodies of water within Delaware county such as rivers and reservoirs.
Hydro 2009- features as the hydro layer with the addition of smaller waterways like creeks and streams that branch off of the major bodies of water.
Del run- the location and limits of the Delaware run.
Delaware landmarks:
BLDG 1- all public landmarks such as hospitals, town halls, and EMS stations, along with many other types of public landmarks
BLDG 2- all landmarks that are for public use like libraries, mobile home parks, rest areas, ect.
Cemetery- the locations of the many cemeteries located within the Delaware County
Churches – the locations for the many different churches that are all around Delaware County
Golf courses- the locations of the all the golf courses within Delaware County
Schools- the locations for the different schools all around Delaware County
USPS- the locations for the all of the U.S. post offices around the county
Address points- the location of every single address point in Delaware county
Street center lines- all of the street/roads and highlights them on the map; including small residential streets.
Master Poing Coverage – layer of addresses associated by street name
Municipalities – shows the major cities in Delaware County; name of city in table
Nature – just dots no information given
Delaware Orthophoto 2008 – aerial view of Delaware County; zoom in and out of places
Delaware Orthophoto 2010: another aerial map of Delaware County updates 2010
Delaware Ortho Detailed 2008: Detailed aerial map of Delaware County in 2008
Delaware Ortho Detailed 2010 – same map as 2008 just updated for 2010. Split into two maps; North and South
Parcels –shows all the parcels of land in Delaware County; address, area, township, school, etc. listed in the table.
Parks – shows all the parks in Delaware County; list the name and the address to each park in the attribute table.
Places of Interests – points on the map that shows; schools, public buildings, post offices, police stations, Mobil home parks, fire stations, EMS, daycares, churches, cemeteries, medical centers, and gold courses. Also shows the fire districts and law enforcement districts. Using the attribute table you can find out exactly where all of these places of interests are located and their name as well as more information about it.
Precincts – different voting precincts in Delaware County and the city ward boundaries.
Polls – points on the map where people can go vote; list the place and the address
Public Land Survey System – how the land is surveyed, mostly squares expect towards the left of Delaware County.
Railroads – all railroads in Delaware County and then 10 buffer layers
Road Center Line – all the roads in Delaware County
Road Right of way – only shows roads with the right away.
School District – shows the area of all school districts in Delaware County and lists what school.
Soil – list all the soil in Delaware County; I don’t understand all the information in the attribute table.
Subdivisions – All of the subdivisions in Delaware County; Name, Date developed, township, condo or house listed
Tax district – shows the different tax districts in Delaware County.
Topography – 19 different folders all show the same information; shows the topography of a particular township or neighborhood within Delaware County.
Townships – all of the new townships in Delaware County; township name, shape area, and shape length listed
Historical Townships – all of the historical townships; area, perimeter, square mile, township named listed
Watershed – every watershed in Delaware County and their area
Wetlands – all of the wetlands in Delaware County and their area, perimeter, type and class
Woodland Final – all of the woodlands in Delaware County and their region.
Woodqc – woodland coverage, area and boundaries in Delaware County.
Zip Codes – area and boundaries of Delaware County.
Zoning – zoning and historical districts around Delaware Ohio.
Chapter 18: Making Maps from Templates
- Templates contain multiple layers of data on them to begin with
- You can change the grid size
- Add X and Y data to the map
- Put graphics on the map
- Connect features
- Add text
Chapter 19: Making Maps for Presentations
- You can make changes to the map by; adding titles, compasses, scale bar, and legend
- A good map informs the viewer, reveals information, and clarify thoughts
- To make two scale bar the same size you select the two scale bars and then right click and choose distribute
- Always put a North arrow to inform the viewer which direction is north
Chapter 20: Creating Models
- Starting a model, building a model, enhancing a model
- Carpenters build a house from a blueprint or scale model. In ArcGIS, you can use ModelBuilder to make a blueprint of your analysis
- Models are the diagram you make
- Mapping Change
GIS lets you map where things move, or the changing conditions in a place over time. Knowing what’s changed can help you understand how things behave over time, anticipate future conditions, or evaluate the results of an action or policy.
Two types of change; location, magnitude or character.
You can map three types of time patterns – a trend, before and after, a cycle
Three ways of mapping change- creating a time series, creating a tracking map, measuring and mapping change.
- Finding What’s Nearby
Finding what’s nearby lets you see what’s within a set distance or travel range of a feature. This lets you monitor events in an area, or find the area served by a facility or the features affected by an activity. Using GIS you can find out what’s occurring within a set distance of a feature and traveling range.
Traveling range is measured using distance, time, or cost.
What’s nearby can be based on a set distance you specify, or on travel to or from a feature.
Distance is one way of defining and measuring how close something is. Nearness doesn’t have to be measured using distance. You can use cost; time is one of the most common used costs.
Straight-Line Distance – defining an area of influence around a feature, and creating a boundary or selecting features within the distance. You specify the source feature and the distance, and the GIS finds the area or the surrounding features within the distance.
Distance or cost over a network – measuring travel over a fixed infrastructure.
Cost over a surface- measuring overland travel and calculating how much area is within the travel range
- Finding What’s Inside
Finding what’s inside lets you see whether an activity occurs inside an area, or summarizes information for each of several areas so you can compare them. To find what’s inside, you can draw an area boundary on top of the feature, use an area boundary to select the features inside and list or summarize them, or combine the area boundary and features to create summary data.
Finding what’s inside a single area lets you monitor activity or summarize information about the area. 
Multiple areas -Finding how much something is inside each of several areas lets you compare the area. Three types:
- Contiguous – zip codes
- Disjunct – state park
- Nested – 50 year flood plan
Vector Method – creates data where it crosses; more accurate but takes longer.
Raster Method- combines layers
- Mapping Density
Mapping the density of features lets you see the patterns of where things are concentrated. This helps you find areas that require action or meet your criteria, or monitor changing conditions. Mapping density shows you where the highest concentration of features is. Density maps are particularly useful for looking at patterns rather than at the locations of individual features.
The cell size determines how coarse or fine the patterns will appear. The smaller the cell size, the smoother the surface. Since cells are squares, the cell size is specified as the length of one of its side. In general, set the cell size so you have between 10 and 100 cells per density unit.
You can map with dots or shaded areas. You can map the density of the feature or feature values (number of households vs. number of people per household)
Mitchell Chapter 3 Notes
- Mapping the most and least
Mapping the most and least lets you compare places based on quantities so you can see which place meet your criteria, or understand the relationships between places. You can map quantities associated with discrete features, continuous phenomena, or data summary. Changing the size of a symbol (ex: dots) can represent numerical value. The larger the dot the higher the number.
Continuous phenomena can be defined areas or a surface of continuous values. Areas are displayed using graduate colors; surfaces are displayed using graduate colors, contours, or #-D perspective view. 
Ranks put features in order, from high to low. They show relative values rather than measured values. You often assign ranks based on another feature attribute, usually a type or category, or a combination of attributes. 
Classes group features with similar values, by assigning them the same symbol. This lets you see features with similar values. 
Use charts to map data summarized by area, or discrete locations or areas. With charts, you can show patterns of quantities and categories at the same time.
Mitchell Chapter 2 Notes
- Mapping where things are
This chapter talks about reasons why to map and how maps are everywhere in our daily life. It tells you what information you need from analyses to start mapping things out. Also it explains to the reader how to use the map to figure information out. Making sure there is a key for the reader to understand what they are looking at. Here is an example: 
When creating a map you need to assign geographic coordinates and category vaules to be able to understand the information. Choosing colors and symbols are imporant in creating maps beucase you do not want colors or symbols to look the same because then the viewer could misunderstand the information. Example of a map using colors to determine each counrty; 
When maping linear features use different widths and/or colors to distinguish between catorgories.
