Week 5: Data Input and Editing

So the elements that are in this map are

1. County boundaries
2. Cities and towns
3. Public Land
4. Roads
5. Hydrography
6. Land Cover
7. Wetlands

I learned a ton on this lab.  This took soooooo much time but I learned so much.  Thanks to Sean's tip form the Discussion post about the data..  That was wonderful!  The tip was"Open the attribute table for the layer and see if their is a field that describes each row of data....., right click on the layer and selected symbology, then on the left selected show categories. At that point there is probably only 1 category showing that says something like and has a check next to it. Uncheck the check and click the button at the bottom that says Add values or add all values. But before you do that change the Value Field to the field in the attribute table that held the description."  There was so much more data than I knew was there until that point.  Once I understood this, the rest of the lab came together nicely.

Thank goodness the USGS site with their Explorer tool worked.   That is where I downloaded most of the information.  The Florida site had it too but for some reason the download hung up every single time.

The main goal was to import 4 adjacent DOQQ, (the center piece here), and then add an adjacent Digital Elevation Model DEM and Digital Raster Graphic (DRG).  The legend was intentionally left out since the three primary elements were clearly and unambiguously labled.  Per the Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization text, "symbols that are self explanatory ... are normally omitted."

Notice the map collar, is this