Maine

• Began merging all the towns/ships in Maine which worked better today (Wednesday the computer would not respond when I tried to merge...) - there are some little gaps (including Moosehead Lake) which I am merging to Maine polygon so that when we simplify everything will be all one piece.

(side note - did end up smoothing the rivers after merging the pieces we wanted)

*Drew wants the initial map to include surrounding territories and then all of the other maps to be just of Maine.

• When smoothing the coast of Maine - Beizer does not work (creates an error OS) and Pake will only work if you tell the smoothing to Flag Errors

• Cut out the coast from Maine (using Cut Feature in Editor), exported that data into MaineCoast and smoothed it at 5000m - Made a Copy of the initial file we cut from and merged the two together - State looks a lot better than when we started.

• Added in what was thought to be major roads (MetaData said roads that posted above 40mph where in the file) but does not include I95 or 295...E911 is a dense set of data and could get messy when trying to select out and edit major roads.
  
• Looking for data on the whole country - found US Interstate Highway Data from NOAA and need to change the projection - data at the country level will (hopefully) be easier to work with.
• Needed to change the projection (datamanagment - projections and transformations - raster- define projection) and then fit it to Maine's UTM (data - projections - feature - project)
• Selected out (using the identify tool since names have changed after the file was create) roads wanted!

Questions:
Roads - what symbols to use?
Rivers - same
Shaded Relief
Other states
Coastline
Labels - how should everything be labeled (Annotation, layer?)
Symbolizing terrain/mountains
Lakes (select out major lakes and export them to a different file? - creates weird gaps on the boarder)