Week 3: Public Safety and Projections

Figure 1:  Week 3 contained practice on the creation of projection and the importance of uniform projections within a map. The above map was the product created from this lesson.  Note the table shows the variations in area of the selected area between the three types of projections used for this exercise.  Also this lab went further into providing what occurs when different projects are applied to the same map.
In addition, week 3 lab included an additional part. This part was to demonstrates ArcGIS Collector ability to enter informational data within the field.  In addition, the lab provided a breakdown of common map sharing abilities available between various sources.  This included how to add data to Google Earth, KML file creation, and make a map package.

Week 2: Cartography

The University of West Florida Main Campus map was the created project of this week. Its goal was the creation of a map that contains essential map elements and made use of effective cartographic choices. This provided me the opportunity to become familiar with making effective cartographic choices and what were the essential map elements. Also, this project had a goal for students to become familiar with metadata. While navigating metadata, it assisted in being able to reference and locate the key pieces of the metadata information which will become more prevalent later in the semester.