World Map

This lab was a good introduction to setting color preferences.

Lab One

Planning a Trip to San Diego

This exercise was a good introduction to GIS desktop. It involved steps that helped create a general knowledge of tools and navigational skills. I learned how to zoom, switch data views, and obtain data from many different features. What I found was extremely useful in this lab was reading ahead before completing the steps I didn’t at first and it cause me many problems. I completed step nine before I saved the map I don’t know if it caused any changes to it.




Find Potential Sites for a Youth Center

This exercise was a lot more involved than the previous one. This lab teaches you how to use GIS tools to make use of data to solve geographical questions. I found a potential site for a youth center by combining layers and excluding areas without the needed attributes. A problem had with this lab was some of the lab material did not match up perfectly with my arcMap so I had to figure out different ways of obtain the same result. For example my Zoom Whole Page button would not work so I had to use the zoom tool and pan to center my map. I am starting to realize a large part of learning this program is problem solving.