Geography 370 Stephan Proctor sproc722 711989537 1/23/08

Lab #1 Questions

Answer the following questions and complete any requested tasks. No partial credit will be given on these questions. Save your answers as a word document named lab1.doc in a sub-folder named Lab1 in your student folder.

Name: Stephan Proctor

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1) Where will you find the data for the labs? (Tell me the full path) J:\isis\html\courses\2008spring\geog\370\006\data

2) Print screen of AFS ACL. Crop and expand box so that instructor can read the text of the box!

3) What is the drive letter of your home directory (i.e., your ATN home directory, not your GEOG 370 class directory)? H:\

Where do you save your labs? J:\isis\html\courses\2008spring\geog\370\006\students\ sproc722\

4) If you were working on a computer in an ATN lab and wanted to save your work to a location where only you and no one else could see it, where should you save it?

H:\private

5) If you had a webpage at UNC, what would be the URL for your web page? http://www.unc.edu/~sproc722/

6) Print screen of step 7 in the trip to San Diego exercise.

7) What is a layer? A layer is a group of specific features. For example, the features of highways and local roads would both be under the same layer (roads).

8) What is a feature? A feature is a single location represented on a map by a point or another sort of marker.

9) Describe the difference between large and small scale, including the level of detail and example ratios.

A large scale map displays an area as relatively large, while a small scale map would do the opposite. Large scale maps give more detail than small scale maps. As an example, a 1:10,000 ratio would be large scale, while 1:100,000 would be small scale.

10) What are the two views in ArcMap and what can you do within each one?

The two views are layout view and data view. Layout view allows you to work with two different maps (in this case, the U.S. and San Diego maps), while data view only lets you work on the active map. Data view allows you to explore information about features, such as (in the case of this assignment) letting you mouse over a hotel and seeing it’s name.

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