Michaela's GIS Journey

This week's experience focused on map layouts, specifically with how best to present the required information about the data and project. The map shows the location of UWF in Escambia County, mostly focused towards new UWF students that would need to know where the campus is as well as the closest cities without getting distracted or overwhelmed with other information. This week's lab assignment showed us the essential map elements required as well as providing an example to practice how to be mindful on how we present our information rather than simply placing the data anywhere on the page. I'm missing the labels for the city names, but something went wrong with my save file and I ran of time to correct it. Providing the actual names of the cities in Escambia County would provide an importance reference for the map readers. If I had the time, I would have selected the Escambia Cities Feature layer so that it would open the Feature Layer Tab. I would have found the Label Bu

  Module 1 Lab Assignment This first lab assignment's objective is to prepare and show what is expected for future lab assignments. The primary learning outcomes involved: Getting familiar with accessing the ArcGIS software through Argo Apps. Assessing data storage drives. Preparing project folders for each project. The map shown above is a visualization of the Cities and World Countries data files found in the OverviewArcGIS file in the R drive. In order to view the shapefiles in a way that is informative, we had to add a Folder Connection to the data we downloaded as well as update the symbology to show graduated colors for the field POP_2007 with Natural Breaks and 7 classes. It is important to use a single color from light to dark when using sequential data. While I wish this had been a smooth and uncomplicated process, I struggled with learning UWF's Argo Apps since that is how we access ArcGIS Pro without downloading it to our personal computers. While I am familiar with