week 6 - Alachua County

This was pretty straightforward, though it took me forever to get ArcMap to quite freezing up every time I tried to edit the data properties.
I enjoyed playing with the 4 part map. I didn't begin to have any issues until the weighted overlay maps. Those I could not seem to get to work right no matter how I played with it. I posted what I managed to do. I could interpret the data and could see by the shaded areas of each of the issues versus the location of the places that it would be an either or type of deal. The areas with the higher home values and older populations were much farther from UF and NFRMC. They would have to determine which set of standards were more important.

Process Summary – Module 4: Hurricane Katrina

Dawn Weaver

1. Explored the data. Everything seemed to be pretty straightforward and easy to find. I did have some issues with the metadata charts. The attribute values and resolution for rasters was confusing.
2. Set the environments – I figured this one out! The step by step instructions were very clear.
3. Produced the first map – got all the way through it, saved it and had to start over because it saved a blank map…though the file name was correct, there was nothing in it.
4. Continued to follow the steps, though this would be so much easier ans less stressful if the remote servers were faster….everything kept freezing up and I kept having to restart ARCMap, losing whatever I did since the last save. This was on RS 1 & 2.
5. I got to number 6 on step 8 before I got confused. I still can’t figure out what they were talking about in the “hint” section.
6. The final issue I had was the final deliverable. I could not figure out how to save the attribute table to make it a deliverable. So I just created a map for each, acreage and square miles.