ToJesusMyHeart Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 Geography nerds, unite!! At this moment I don't need any help specifically, but I'll let you know if I get stuck on any assignments. I mostly just wanted to see if anybody can empathize with me. It's a cool program, but it's rough to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morostheos Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 It's a cool program, but it's rough to learn. :punchout: <---- This is the absolute perfect smiley for learning ArcGIS. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Hubby has a PhD in Geography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToJesusMyHeart Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 Hubby has a PhD in Geography. Impressive! What's his area of interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillT Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Interesting. I'm going to be taking a GIS class in the fall, but I don't know what, if any, software we'll use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Impressive! What's his area of interest? Cultural. Basically, not the name of the river or mountain, but why that mountain or river became the border between those two countries. It's kind of mixing political science and anthropology into geography. His Masters work dealt with GIS stuff when it was brand new in the 80's. That's how he ended up at the South Pole looking for meteorites. He got the idea to use it to focus on areas most likely to have concentrations of meteorites, churned out by glacier movements. Since he had the idea, NASA had to let him come along even though he'd never been camping in his life, or skiing, and couldn't even drive a car. So he spent three months in a tent on the South Polar Plateau, driving snowmobiles. Just scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosieranna Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 To the OP: I can PM a link to some of the stuff my department does so you can see a few real world applications. We do community and transportation planning on a county level. Or not. Past experience headbanging with ArcGIS (and I've got about 10 years worth) has shown that the ESRI website can be really helpful. Click the "support" link on the main page and type your query into the search box. I've entered some pretty random things and gotten useful results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToJesusMyHeart Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 Awesome! Thanks! Yeah, feel free to PM me those examples if you have time. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToJesusMyHeart Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 I would just like to brag for a moment. This map is what I have been creating for the past 3.5 hours. TELL ME HOW PERFECT IT IS! I created this map with ArcMap 10 and U.S. Census Bureau data. BLOOD AND TEARS, I TELL YOU!! Any critics? Especially from Arc users? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morostheos Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Nice map!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosieranna Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Nice map. Something I noticed - the cities around Dallas/Fort Worth get clumpy. You might consolidate from 5 classes to 4 and move the limits upward. Like, if any cities have a pop. greater than 750k or 1m use that instead of "greater than 500,000." Maybe use "<100,000" as your smallest category. Going from 5 to 4 would mean fewer dots but still be distinct enough to show differences. You should never have more than 4 or 5 classes anyway - anything more gets messy. There are exceptions, like zoning maps and land cover, where you might need 30 categories but they are not the norm. It looks really good. I would also crop any identifying information when posting on a public site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToJesusMyHeart Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Nice map. Something I noticed - the cities around Dallas/Fort Worth get clumpy. You might consolidate from 5 classes to 4 and move the limits upward. Like, if any cities have a pop. greater than 750k or 1m use that instead of "greater than 500,000." Maybe use "<100,000" as your smallest category. Going from 5 to 4 would mean fewer dots but still be distinct enough to show differences. You should never have more than 4 or 5 classes anyway - anything more gets messy. There are exceptions, like zoning maps and land cover, where you might need 30 categories but they are not the norm. It looks really good. I would also crop any identifying information when posting on a public site. Thank you for the suggestions! :) I'm not worried about people knowing my name and where I attend college. I have a big german shepherd to guard me. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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