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eography 370
Lab #1 Questions
Answer the following questions and complete any requested tasks. No partial credit will be given on these questions. Save your answers as a word document named lab1.doc in a sub-folder named Lab1 in your student folder.
Name: Joy Rasmussen
Email Address:
1) Where will you find the data for the labs? (Tell me the full path)
sftp://rjoy:@isis.unc.edu/%2Fafs/isis.unc.edu/html/courses/2008spring/geog/370/006/lab_assignments/ data not lab assignments -.25
2) Print screen of AFS ACL. Crop and expand box so that instructor can read the text of the box!
I use fetch because it is easier to use with my mac
3) What is the drive letter of your home directory (i.e., your ATN home directory, not your GEOG 370 class directory)? Where do you save your labs?
H on my private drive or M:\students\rjoy
4) If you were working on a computer in an ATN lab and wanted to save your work to a location where only you and no one else could see it, where should you save it?
My file on the course sight or my private H drive folder at sftp://rjoy:@isis.unc.edu/
sftp://rjoy:@isis.unc.edu/%2Fafs/isis.unc.edu/html/courses/2008spring/geog/370/006/students/rjoy/
only H:private is place where only you have access -.5
5) If you had a webpage at UNC, what would be the URL for your web page?
www.unc.edu/~rjoy
6) Print screen of step 7 in the trip to San Francisco exercise.
7) What is a layer?
A layer is a data set representing a certain geographical detail (point, lines, and areas). It is generally connected to nominal data but a layer can also be raster. Also, it interacts with other layers. Layers are made of features that represent real-life objects; data frames are made of multiple layers -.5
8) What is a feature?
A feature is a single part of a landscape. Like a point that represents a zoo. Have a location, shape, and symbol; features within a layer have the same shape and characteristics -.5
9) Describe the difference between large and small scale, including the level of detail and example ratios.
The ratio of mapes is 1:24,000, one being the scale on the map and 24,000 being the equvilant in the real word. The large-scale maps cover smaller areas like a city wile a small scale map is courser and covers more area like map of the world is a small ratio. -.5 for grammar/spelling
10) What are the two views in ArcMap and what can you do within each one?
The first view is Data view where it is easier to edit your map details. Data view is where you can explore, edit, query, analyze, and symbolize data. The other view is Layout View which is use for presenting the data in a more user clean form. Layout view is where you can look at multiple frames; it also where you print/publish maps -1
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