Week 5 = 09/21/07

Today in class we went over chapter four (data entry and data sources) and chapter seven (digital data). The lecture took about two and a half hours to complete due to the amount of data in each chapter. Of course there was breaks added into the lecture for us to stretch our legs and get some water. The labs we did were chapter fiftteen and chapter sixteen in the GTKA book. During lab time, the instructor announced that on November ninth AB Tech is going to have a GIS day. That is the day that all the GIS "big wigs" from the city are going to meet on the campus and have displays, geo type domes, and demos that we can destory (test). The "event" is going to be from 9am - 2pm. Since this is in our class time, our class is going to be run crowd control (I should bring my pepper spray and nightstick), having class time, and looking at all the "owe....awe" displays. I wonder how much stuff they will actually trust me to handle?

Week 4 = 09/14/07

Today was our first test for the GIS class. Due to a series of events that happened this morning, I was unable to attend the test. Since we only have four test this entire semester, I either have to make up the test and receive a lower grade for turning it in late or take a zero on the test and get hundreds on the next three tests. I can decide what I would like to do but when it comes down to it, the instructor has the final say.

Chapter 3B Map

This map shows two distinct lines. The top line shows a planned flight plan and the bottom line shows the actual flight plan. Pop Quiz Hot Shot, One of these lines has a image of something at the end of it. Can you tell me what that image is and which line has it?

Chapter 3A Map

During the semester, I will be posting images of some maps for the ArcGIS lab book. This image is from exercise 3A step number twenty. To be honest, I think this is the overview of a flight plan that someone had took.

Week 3 = 09/07/07

Today in class we discussed chapter 3, projections and coordinate systems, in the GISF book. The powerpoint for the chapter is, to say the least, rather long. For the lab we did chapter 13 in the GTKA book. The plan was to do the ESRI 'live' Training Seminar, on the GIS blog site, but due to time issues that seminar is assigned for homework. The announcement was made that there is going to be a test next class period on chapters one thru three. About five blogs and six maps up from this blog are the maps for chapter 13 in the GTKA book. I finally was able to to get around to exporting the map from ArcMap into a jpeg file. Even though this blog was created on 09/07/07 I wasn't able to upload the images until Friday, 10/19/07. That is alittle over a month to have the images uploaded. I have got to get these images uploaded that day the labs are assigned if not the day after.

Week 2 = 08/31/07

Today in class we discussed the different types of data modules. We also did chapter 4 and chapter 14 labs in the GTKA book.

Week 1 = 08/24/07

Today in class we went over chapter one and chapter 2. We discussed the syllabus as well as the website for the class. Now I am going by what the schedule says on this due to the fact that I was not in class today.