Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Week 10 - Using Raw Data

In this case we were tasked to work with raw data and tables to analyze property for a fictional developper.

It involved bringing in data and joining to our attribute table as a way of analysizing outside data within GIS. Then the four largest landowners in Gulf County, Florida needed to be located and symbolized. This was accomplished with data from the Florida Department of Revenue.

Here is where it got interesting to me.  In order to join tables with a shapefile - there needed to be a common field. The field names did need to be identical but they do need to hold the same data. After that it was quite straight forward.  It is a lab like this that reminds me how much I have learned this semester.

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