The Forest Service has funds to create a new campground. The site will be located in northern Utah, on the east side of the Wasatch Range, north of Liberty. You have been tasked with creating a map to present a campground of your own design, reporting some development specifics, and making your plan (a map) and GIS files available via your website.
The manipulation and creation of vector data (points, polylines and polygons) is a fundamental part of your GIS toolkit. In ArcGIS, the manipulation, modification, drawing, and digitizing of vector data is referred to as editing. We need to build proficiency in these tasks before we can do vector-based spatial analyses (i.e. Lab 05 & Week 05).
Meets Course Learning Outcomes 2, 4 & 5.
Help! I am getting an error saying I don’t have the required license to run the Zonal Statistics tool!
You will need to activate the Spatial Analyst extension to run some of the tools needed in this lab.
In ArcMap > Customize drop down > Extensions > check all the boxes and close.
You will have to do this with every time you log into the Quinney labs and once per install on your personal computer.
You will design a campground for the US Forest Service at a specific site near Liberty Utah (approximate location: 425,666 E 4,578,749 N meters in the NAD 83 UTM Zone 12N coordinate system).
You will need to create 3 shapefiles:
See the “what to submit” section below for map details.
Click here for specific instructions for Task 1.
There are many ways to share your vector data, and/or map including:
*.KML/KMZ
- Keyhole Markup Language format (i.e. Google Earth)*.mxd
Map Document with all associated data files*.shp
files Shape files with all dependencies (i.e. *.dbf, *.prj, *.sbn, *.sbx, *.xml, *.shx
)*.shp
files with *.lyr
file Shape files and layer file*.lyr
file (note that a *.lyr
file cannot be saved in a file geodatabase)*.lpk
Layer Package File - Can share on ArcGIS Online (see here)*.MPK
For this task, you will only be sharing your project as an ArcGIS Desktop Map Package (*.MPK
map package) which bundles your map project and all the dependent data files,
But you need to be familiar and comfortable with each of these file types.
To reinforce these concepts, a brief “quiz” accompanies this lab to help promote understanding of these core concepts.
Link to Canvas Lab 4 Quiz page
Click here for specific instructions for Task 2.
Data for this lab includes:
Lab04_data folder available for download here. (must be logged into Canvas)
Display a series of figures that represent your proposed campground, campsites, and trails.
Create an interactive Google Map to display the campground extent and campsites (this could be used as a locator map depending on the scale)
Display a table containing campsite attributes and second table with results of landcover analysis.
Along with the URL for your Lab 4 webpage, submit the map package to Canvas > Assignment 4 page
Map package (*.MPK):
Your webpage should include a brief write up that provides contextual background information about the campground design project.
Make sure your lab conforms to the general lab submission guidelines. Submit a URL for this lab’s webpage.
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