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02-Finding Data and Preparing It For GIS Analysis 92
02-Finding Data and Preparing It For GIS Analysis 92
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2. Under the Quick Links section on the right,, Click on the Sign
up for the Yale GIS-L Mailing List link to go to the GIS-L
registration page.
Note: We suggest that you not select the Daily Digest feature.
3) Highlight the green Trusted Sites icon, and click the Sites button.
5) Add
*.census.gov
*. usgs.gov
*.esri.com
to the Trusted Web Sites list
4. Select NortheasternUSA.mxt.
8. Switch to Data View, using the View Toolbar, at the bottom left corner of the Map Layout Display
Window.
9. Right-Click on the Data Frame Title, Northeastern United States and Open the Properties Dialog Box.
10. Select the Coordinate System Tab and Use the Select A Coordinate System Panel to Browse to
Predefined>Projected Coordinates
Systems>State Plane>NAD
1983>NAD 1983 StatePlane
Connecticut FIPS 0600.
12. Accept the defaults for Unzipping the file to a folder called
C:\temp\your_initials\Data\Shapefiles\.
13. This will result in another zip file, grp0009009.zip, which will have
to be extracted. Use the same procedure to extract the files to
the C:\temp\your_initials\Data\Shapefile Folder.
16. You will be presented with an error message indicating that the coordinate system of this file is not yet defined. Click Ok.
18. Click on the Search Tab at the bottom of the ArcToolbox and Enter Define as your
Search Term.
20. Double-Click on the Define Projection Tool from the Data Management Toolbox to
Open it.
21. Select the tgr09009grp00 layer from the Input Dataset Drop-Down.
Now we will use the American FactFinder to create a dataset with several
variables of interest.
3. Under Getting Detailed Data Find the Decennial Census item and
Click Get Data.
8. In the last Menu, Select All Block Groups and Click Add.
10. From the list of available attributes, Select those of interest (use the
CTRL key to select more than one).
14. A Pop-Up Window will be presented, with option for download (you
will need to enable pop-ups for this function).
15. Scroll Down the page and find the item for Database compatible
(data rows only) downloads. Check the Microsoft Excel (.Xls)
Checkbox and Click the Download Button.
1. Browse to the
C:\temp\your_initials\Data\Tabular Folder and
Open the dt_dec_2000_sf3_u_data1.xls file with
Microsoft Excel.
28. Confirm that the demographic variables successfully transferred to the new dataset.
You should now have successfully joined the downloaded Census attribute data to the boundary file downloaded from ESRI. If
desired, you can apply Symbology to the resulting dataset for mapping the downloaded attributes.
Note that the box will remain green unless the area you have defined
becomes larger that the Seamless Site allows (you can request up to
1.6GB, in 100MB files at once).
Once you release the mouse button, a new page will be opened in a
new browser window (you may have to enable pop-ups for the site).
This new window will provide some general info about the data you
have requested (projection, bounding coordinates, cell size, etc)
as well as Download Link Buttons to begin downloading the data to
your hard drive.
8. Click on the
Download Button
to post the data request to the server. Yet another window will be
opened, which indicates the Current Status of your request on the
server.
10. When the download is complete, browse to find the ZIP file you just
downloaded, right-click on it and Extract All.
11. The data will be extracted to a new subfolder called something like
ned_70561049. In the rest of this tutorial, this layer will be referred to
as ned_#######.
When the tool is finished running, you should see a new layer in your Map
View window. However, the effect is has produced is not very attractive.
The Hillshade layer we have produced is very dark, and the topography it
has created seems far more extreme than we might have expected.
These poor results are related to what we observed earlier in the Spatial
Reference and Cellsize of our Digital Elevation Model. Creating a Hillshade
involves calculations that assume that the input parameters being used are
in linear units, rather than the angular units that we currently have. This
same problem would be true if we were to calculate slope, aspect and
many other mathematical operations we might want to apply to this
elevation data. What is necessary is that we Project our dataset from the
current Latitude & Longitude Coordinates, which locate features on the face
of the oblate spheroid that is the earth, to a projection that records our data
in linear measurements, as if the earth were flat.
25. Use the Hillshade tool again, using the new projected
elevation layer, to produce a new Hillshade Layer, called
hillshade_02. Be sure to set the Z Factor to 3, like before.
26. You should find that you now have a much more
pleasant looking result from the Hillshade Tool.
2. Click on the Look In: drop-down list and select the GIS Server Item.
5. You will be warned about a coordinate system that does not match that
used in the Map Document. This is fine, for now, and you can click
close to go ahead and add the data.
Note that there are several types of Data Service provided from the
Geography Network server. The one you have added is a Feature Service. This type
of service allows you to work with the data as if it were on your own machine. You can
change the symbology; view the attribute table, etc One thing you cannot do is edit the
data, however. For this reason, you should probably subset the feature of interest using
selection methods, and export the data to a new data layer on your own machine. Th3e
Geography Network also provides access to Image Services that serve geographic data
that has been rendered at the server, then sent as a snapshot to ArcMap. This type of
service is useful for adding Canned data to your map document for use as background. Finally, the Geography Network also
contains a Metadata service, which you can connect to using ArcCatalog to examine and download the Metadata for the
services available.
Location.
11. Click OK to close the Select by Location dialog and Apply the
selection.
12. Right-click on the Hazardous Waste Generator (EPA) Layer and go to Data>Export.
13. Check the data frame to use the coordinate system of the data frame
for export.
15. When prompted, Add the exported data as a layer in the Map Document.
16. Turn off the visibility of the EPA_Hazards_FS Group by unchecking its
checkbox.
1. Turn off the visibility of all Polygon Layers, using their checkboxes.
6. Click OK.
Geodata.gov
The Geodata.gov site is a clearinghouse for all type of
Federal, State and local GIS data sources. It provides
searchable Metadata, and the ability to examine
discovered data in a built-in GIS data Browser.
8. The first result returned should be USDA-FSA-APFO NAIP UTM Zone 18 ArcIMS Image Service. Click on the View
Metadata Button.
9. On the resulting Full Metadata, scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the ESRI Metadata section and the Server:
http://gdw.apfo.usda.gov item.
This is the server address that you can add to ArcMap as an ArcIMS Server. Once added, you should be able to browse into the
servers services and select the image for Zone 18 to add it to the Map Document.
13. Browse into the http://gdw.afpo.usda.gov/ server, select and add the NAIP_UTM18 Service.
14. Remove or turn off the visibility of any layer obscuring the added data layer.
o Add GIS and Data-Specific keywords to your Google Search (GIS Data, shapefile, cadastral, digital
elevation model, etc)
o ALWAYS inspect metadata for data discoveries and pay particular attention to collection date, scale and update
frequency. If these items are not available, contact the source of the data to confirm these Metadata items.
o Always obtain explicit permission to use data that is not expressly labeled as Public and Open.