Finishing up maps today and do a print out to view them on paper -
Meeting with Matt and Drew to go over the maps-
Adding in:
a. Neatline
b. Legend
c. Scale
d. North Arrow
*in order to edit the legend to be as you want - go into 'style' under 'legend items' (added description and legend title)
Not adding in neatline, legend, etc. Drew is doing that in photoshop
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When sending data to Drew add both a River/Lakes map as well as one without.
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1. Added in all of the islands to the layers
2. Fixed the Smoothed St. John River to match up with outline of Maine - split the features of a copy of the state along with the smoothed river and merged the two together.
3. Save and send copies.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Acid Rain - projection
The data was sent by Eric over the weekend - different data set
Opened the data into blank arcmap -
1. tool box
a. data management
b. projections and transformations
c. raster
d. project raster
Input Coordinate System - Albert's Equal Area conic for EPA (suggests that projection has been found in original data)
Output - NAD1983, UTM 19
Eric mentioned that we should use 'Nearest Neighbor' and this option was preselected.
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Created Raster - converting image over to polygon - still a lot of data to try and manage
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Exported Map into Photoshop as .TIF
Used Magic wand to select gray color
Under 'Select' option -'Modify' - 'Expand' - '2 pixels'
Deselected Anti-Aliased and Contiguous to remove gray boarder - however the smoothed option creates a different impression of acid rain in Maine than compared to the original.
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States and Provinces:
Exported out data for States and Provinces (minus Maine in the 'States' data)
Created new features along the boundaries merged two pieces together
Clipped the features to the state of Maine (make sure to select 'discard' area that intersects)
Grayed and Whitened the areas/boundaries
Opened the data into blank arcmap -
1. tool box
a. data management
b. projections and transformations
c. raster
d. project raster
Input Coordinate System - Albert's Equal Area conic for EPA (suggests that projection has been found in original data)
Output - NAD1983, UTM 19
Eric mentioned that we should use 'Nearest Neighbor' and this option was preselected.
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Created Raster - converting image over to polygon - still a lot of data to try and manage
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Exported Map into Photoshop as .TIF
Used Magic wand to select gray color
Under 'Select' option -'Modify' - 'Expand' - '2 pixels'
Deselected Anti-Aliased and Contiguous to remove gray boarder - however the smoothed option creates a different impression of acid rain in Maine than compared to the original.
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States and Provinces:
Exported out data for States and Provinces (minus Maine in the 'States' data)
Created new features along the boundaries merged two pieces together
Clipped the features to the state of Maine (make sure to select 'discard' area that intersects)
Grayed and Whitened the areas/boundaries
Friday, May 7, 2010
Acid Rain
Having issues with trying to create Acid Rain map -
Matt called Eric Miller (Ecosystems Research Group, Inc.) - data is being sent in another format - hopefully we can convert the data (Idrisi) easily into ARCMap.
New data will be produced in about three weeks to have updated data of acid rain sensitivity for 2018 (based on pollution control measure already researched).
Matt called Eric Miller (Ecosystems Research Group, Inc.) - data is being sent in another format - hopefully we can convert the data (Idrisi) easily into ARCMap.
New data will be produced in about three weeks to have updated data of acid rain sensitivity for 2018 (based on pollution control measure already researched).
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Cutting Polygons
Finished conservation land piece
Started work on biophysical regions
Getting better at using the arctool in the editor toolbox
Figured out why the clipping was acting weird - I had the preservation set wrong
However, the clip feature only clips the and in Maine not all the little islands and anytime I would select all to clip - the option was no longer there - so still having a little trouble with that piece.
Started work on biophysical regions
Getting better at using the arctool in the editor toolbox
Figured out why the clipping was acting weird - I had the preservation set wrong
However, the clip feature only clips the and in Maine not all the little islands and anytime I would select all to clip - the option was no longer there - so still having a little trouble with that piece.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Earth Day!
Worked on some georeferencing - Drew stopped by and gave me an AcidRain file to georeference.
Showed Drew some of the maps - we saved the base map as a TIF as 600 resolution - if I want to show more for him to label (he'll do labeling in photoshop) save map at 72.
Ran into a clip problem - I followed my previous directions for clipping a new polygon to MaineSmooth but I was not detailed enough and have a problem with the polygon clipping but then keeping the initial box around the state of Maine.
Work some more tomorrow.
Showed Drew some of the maps - we saved the base map as a TIF as 600 resolution - if I want to show more for him to label (he'll do labeling in photoshop) save map at 72.
Ran into a clip problem - I followed my previous directions for clipping a new polygon to MaineSmooth but I was not detailed enough and have a problem with the polygon clipping but then keeping the initial box around the state of Maine.
Work some more tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Images
Two print screens of maps so far to give an idea (different colors for final) one of glacial retreat (top) and the other is the intersection of plant boundaries (bottom)
Tomorrow will start work on Figure 5.14A from Illustrations document.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Issues
Went back to try and fix the general idea of how the ice sheet map would look:
Any time I tried to add in a vertex the auto-complete would create gaps (which I sort of expected but was hoping would not happen) and I couldn't move any of the vertices without moving the whole map -
Have gone through and am now re-doing the outline of glaciation but sometimes the auto-complete doesn't want to capture the sketch and I have to re-do my work again...frustrating...
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Cut out the polygons at the top of AR county - but still cannot get one of them to show.
Georeferenced one part of the vegetation trend piece and cut out one of the paths.
Any time I tried to add in a vertex the auto-complete would create gaps (which I sort of expected but was hoping would not happen) and I couldn't move any of the vertices without moving the whole map -
Have gone through and am now re-doing the outline of glaciation but sometimes the auto-complete doesn't want to capture the sketch and I have to re-do my work again...frustrating...
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Cut out the polygons at the top of AR county - but still cannot get one of them to show.
Georeferenced one part of the vegetation trend piece and cut out one of the paths.
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