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Recruit’s Warpath

Recruit’s Warpath. Phase One. Plan. Mission: To prove that we, as recruits, are worthy enough to be invited back to the Academy (GIS Club). Plan: To organize a march in six months, starting in November. Deadline: April 30. "Walking Trail". Phase I Learn ArcView 3.3 Create Shape Files

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Recruit’s Warpath

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  1. Recruit’s Warpath Phase One

  2. Plan Mission: To prove that we, as recruits, are worthy enough to be invited back to the Academy (GIS Club). Plan: To organize a march in six months, starting in November. Deadline: April 30

  3. "Walking Trail" • Phase I • Learn ArcView 3.3 • Create Shape Files • Plot Waypoints • Site Visit to Test Trails • Corrections

  4. Learning ArcView ArcView is a sophisticated system of surveillance cameras and as the recruits of Overlord Academy, it is our first job to work the night shift of ArcView. ArcView GIS is a mapping software using themes and views to layer different maps and types of information.

  5. Shape Files Shape files are a fairly big part of our training. Shape files help tell us where certain objects are (or supposed to be, in the case of the river). Sometimes shape files can be complex polygons, or sometimes they can be as simple as a single point. The first shape file we as recruits learn to do is a gigantic man-made lake. It is always helpful when deploying troops to know if you are trying to march through a 50 foot deep lake.

  6. Contour Lines Contour lines are another extremely good point to make to younger troops, and our instructors have pounded the importance of contour lines into us. Why, you ask? Well think about how an infantry unit feels about having to carry 15 pound backpacks across a 5 foot distance with an incline of 15 feet!!! That is very steep, come to think of it, that is steep enough to go cardboard sliding . . . . . .

  7. Learning How to Fire a GPS (or how to enter a waypoint) One of the first things that we, at the Overlord Academy (GIS Club), learn to do is to fire a GPS (enter a way point). First, we thumb off the safety (turn on the GPS receiver). Next we scroll through the various safe points to start our path of destruction (trial trail). If there is no safe points already entered, we enter a new point by pressing the button on the front upper left side. It will then plot the point. As part of our rigorous training (and because the senior members don’t want to), we as recruits must march to the next point of entry. Absolutely BRUTAL!!!

  8. (or how to enter a waypoint) Learning How to Fire a GPS

  9. First March of the New Year Our first march (first site visit) was a very big deal to us new recruits, because it separated the quitters and the winners… okay so maybe that is a little harsh. Anyway our first site visit was extremely exciting for all our recruits. It showed us what we were really working with. Of course we had to move almost all of our way points. They were in the river and on manholes. Needless to say, we had a lot more work ahead of us!!!

  10. Possible Warpaths Nathan Schiferl’s Path

  11. Possible Warpaths Dorathy Scrudder’s Path

  12. Possible Warpaths Sarah Pritsker’s First Path

  13. Possible Warpaths Matthew Zettler’s First Path

  14. Possible Warpaths Jonathon Russell’s First Path

  15. All Possible Warpaths

  16. Learn ArcView 3. • Create a View • Add Themes • Create New Themes • Extensions & Projections • Aerial Photos • Contour Lines • On to Phase II

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