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GIS UPDATE! forecast.weather/MapClick.php?lon=-124.16121&lat=40.85186#.U_1mcfldV9j

GIS UPDATE! http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-124.16121&lat=40.85186#.U_1mcfldV9j. TODAY: What is GIS? Map Scale. What is GIS?.

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GIS UPDATE! forecast.weather/MapClick.php?lon=-124.16121&lat=40.85186#.U_1mcfldV9j

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  1. GIS UPDATE! http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-124.16121&lat=40.85186#.U_1mcfldV9j

  2. TODAY: • What is GIS? • Map Scale

  3. What is GIS? A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth’s surface. GIS can show many different kinds of data on one map. This enables people to more easily see, analyze, and understand patterns and relationships.

  4. GIS software uses relational database management technologies to assign a series of attributes to each spatial feature. Common feature identification keys are used to link the spatial and attribute data between tables. A soil polygon, for example, can be linked to a series of database tables that define its mineral and chemical composition, crop yield, land use suitability, slope, and other characteristics.

  5. GIS provides the capability to combine various data into a composite data layer that may become a base layer in a database. For example, slope, soils, hydrography, demography, wetlands, and land use can be combined to develop a single layer of suitable hazardous waste storage sites. These data, in turn, may be incorporated into the permanent database of a local government and used for regulatory and planning decisions. http:// www.epa.gov/region5fields/gis.html

  6. Projections The three families of map projections. They can be represented by a) cylindrical projections, b) conical projections or c) planar projections. http://docs.qgis.org/2.0/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/coordinate_reference_systems.html

  7. Map projections determine how people view the world, the political and economic relationships between different countries, and the importance of certain regions on a global level. We rely on them for navigation, for international research and analysis, and for reference purposes. Since different types of projections skew different aspects of the globe, it is of critical importance that we are aware of these distortions. http://aswgeog7.blogspot.com/2011/05/projections-in-arcgis.html

  8. Coordinate Systems http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~rdatta/gis2/lectures/Lecture2/lecture2.htm

  9. Can anyone think of a use for a GIS?

  10. TODAY: • What is GIS? • Map Scale Map scale refers to the relations (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. For example, on a 1:100,000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground. (or 1 cm on the map equals 100,000 cm on the ground)

  11. Verbal Scale "one cm represents six km" Relative Fraction Scale Bar Scale Verbal Scale ? Relative Fraction Scale ? Bar Scale ?

  12. Large scale maps or Small scale maps? • A large scale map shows greater detail because the scale is a larger fraction than a small scale map. • Large scale maps have a scale of 1:50,000 or greater (1:24,000, 1:10,000, ...). • Small scale maps are those with scales smaller than 1:250,000.

  13. Which is larger scale ?

  14. Which is larger scale ? 1:50,000 or 1:500,000 5 cm represents 1 km or 1 cm represents 10,000 m ––––––––– ––––––––– 0 1 km 0 1 cm

  15. Express the following verbal scales as representative fractions: 2 cm represents 5 km 100 cm represents 2500 km 0.4 cm represents 0.1 km

  16. Given a map scale of 1:30,000, how many cm would represent 9 km?

  17. Given a map scale of 1:10,000, how many km are represented by 2.5 cm?

  18. Picture a 2 cm by 2 cm area taken from three maps, each with the different scales listed below. 2 cm 2 cm ___________ km2 ___________ km2 ___________ km2 1:500,000 1:250,000 1:1,000,000

  19. Metric standard units 1 centimeter (cm) = 10 millimeters (mm) 1 meter (m) = 100 cm 1 kilometer (km) = 1,000 m American customary system standard units 1 foot (ft) = 12 inches (in) 1 yard (yd) = 3 ft 1 rod (rd) = 16.5 ft 1 chain (ch) = 4 rd 1 furlong = 10 ch or 220 yd 1 mile (mi) = 5,280 ft 1 acre (ac) = 43,560 square feet (ft2) Converting from Metric to American Inch to centimeters – multiply inches by 2.54 Centimeters to inches – multiply cm by 0.3937 Feet to meters – multiply feet by 0.3048 Meters to feet – multiply meters by 3.281 Miles to kilometers – multiply miles by 1.61 Kilometers to miles – multiply km by 0.62

  20. BREAK TIME!

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