Week 7 Location Decisions: On Your Own

Daytona Bound

This is my Power Point Presentation of the Week 7 Lab Activity. This was pretty similar to last weeks lab, which made it alittle easier to go through. I had no big issues other than at first not having my Euclidean Distance not fit the county boundry. I had realized I had not set my extent and my mask in the Environments before I had started my map. After I did that Everything fit fine and I feel good about my presentation.

Week 6- Location Descisions

This is a map showing two different weighted overlays of different criteria based on the couples requirements. The map on the left showing equal distribution of the 4 criteria at a 25/25/25/25 ratio. I used the green to red color scheme to show the best areas that would suit the couple the best. I also highlighted three tracts that I thought would be best with a white color outlined in red. The map to the right shows the same information with different importance to each criteria at a 40/40/10/10 ratio. I used the same symbology for this map as well green being good and red being worst. I also highlighted the three best tracts the same way as I did in the first map.



This is a complex map that includes 4 seperate priority maps. One showing the distance from a desired hospital in Alachua County, another is the distance from a desired school, then next two include information of the percentage of people between the ages of 40-49 and the median home values in the county.


This is a basemap of Alachua County, FL. Showing roads, places, and public lands. This map took very little time to complete. Getting everything ready to go such as the environments and projection seemed to consume most of the time in this map.

Week 5 Impact Assessments

These are maps created by using the ESRI exercises in Week 5 Impact Assessments assignment. All of these exercises were pretty straightforward as always with the ESRI exercises. These maps include information about Student Occupancy in Pewter City, a buffer of the Impact of traffic in an area of Pewter City and also a a map of Economic Performance of Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry.

Oil Spill Participation Post Part 2-

GIS is used in as a useful tool in many different disaster situations. One way to involve GIS is to predict what might happen in a possible disaster. Some disaster relief efforts are totally based on damage models predicted on a computer. It is also used to help government officials and other decision makers locate where they will establish their medical centers and other disaster relief stations, and could help the homeless and others find their ways to shelter and to hospitals. And finally another way it can be used is to assess damage caused by the storm and to record damage costs. Maps could possibly be made to show damage before and after the storm, and then follow up maps to show recovery efforts and status on roads and so on.


In the past week we have researched the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. GIS is also used in situations like this. It can be used to map daily photos of the spill and how much it has spread. And by the use of Google Earth it can help show people around the world exactly where it is at the time. Projected photos of the spill can also be made to predict where the oil is heading and be able to give certain areas warning about the presence of the oil on nearby beaches and bays. Using information by the NOAA, maps can be formed to show animals that could be in danger of the contamination such as anything from crab and shrimp that will affect the local fishing for seafood, to birds and reptiles that live near the coastal waters.

Oil Spill Participation Post

Deepwater Horizon Oil Extent

This is a animation showing the Deepwater Horizons Oil Spill extent over the past month. I had no other issues other than ArcMap freezing up on me and having to do it about three times, then I finally got smart and saved it so if it froze again I wouldnt have to do it ALL over again.

Week 4 Oil Spills

These are two maps consisting of information on Booming Operations in the particular Index location I have chosen in the state of Florida. They also contain information on possible impact the oil spill could have on land areas and the existing wildlife in the area. The provided maps also contain tables with detialed information about what types of species are included in the area such as reptiles, terestrial mammals and also birds. And another table is presented to show the length of the current Booming Operations in feet. I had no major downfalls in this lab. It took alittle time putting everything together and finding and matching the particular species in the file provided with the ID number in the attribute table because there were so many creatures in the different categories and the Ids weren't in numerical order. Other than that it was a fun lab and looking forward to the next topic!

Week 3- Hurricanes

These are the first 2 map deliverables of Week 3 Hurricane Topic. The first map is the hydrology and the elevation of Hancock,Harrison,and Jackson Counties in Mississippi. The second map is a map of different landcover types that where affected by the surge in the same counties as stated before. It also contains a bar graph showing the percentages of each landcover that was affected. I really had no pitfalls in any of the deliverable projects. I had one issue that consisted of getting the red exclamation points but after some poking around, I ended up re-doing the part which I could not repair data. Other than that, everything was straight forward and very easy to follow.