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Chapter 5 Assignment
Please read through the entire instructions before beginning. Pay particular attention to #8 -
required screenshots this assignment. Please make sure all screenshots are legible.
Download this Word document and use it to insert your screen captures (as instructed below)
and then rename the document and upload to Canvas.
Choose any state except New Jersey.
1. Create a new project for the chosen state, saving it in the gisclass\ClassProjects folder.
2. Open a new map and set the coordinate system to the most appropriate State Plane zone in
the State Plane > NAD 1983 (meters) folder. If there is more than one zone for the state, just
pick one, preferably the central one.
3. Set the Analysis Environment to match the chosen coordinate system for the map.
4. Export each of the vector feature classes from the usdata geodatabase to the new state
geodatabase, taking care to export only the features in the state.
5. Update the Item Description for each data set exported.
6. Find at least two additional feature classes for the state geodatabase, either from ArcGIS
Online or a website, choosing ones that you find interesting. Import them to the geodatabase as
well.
7. Create a map of the state layers, appropriately symbolized (omit some layers if the map is
too cluttered).
8. Your grade will be based on the following screen captures:
a. Screenshots of the map, including the Contents pane showing the layers (make sure the
layers are expanded so that I can see the legend formatting).
[Insert Here]
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b. A screenshot of the Layers folder in the map properties (as in Fig. 5.20) to show that all
layers are in the same coordinate system
[Insert Here]
c. Screenshots of the updated Item Description for each data set exported.
[Insert Here]
d. A screenshot of the map showing only the Internet data obtained
[Insert Here]
d. A list of citations, one for each data set
[Type in your list of citations below]
9. Save your Word document as your lastname_Chapter5 (for example, Youhanna_Chapter5)
and upload it to Canvas.