MATE Center 2005

Earthquake Project Day 5

  1. Do Exercise 18b in Chapter 18.
  1. Add the NuclearP.txt file to your project. Notice that once you add a table to your project, the table of contents will change (look at the bottom of the table of contents). Now the Source tab is selected and it displays the pathway of your project data. You can not move layers up or down in the table of contents when the source tab is selected. However you cannot view tables when the display tab is selected. Please make a mental note of this. You will need to change back and forth between these tabs at different times.
  1. Add the nuclear power plants as X,Y Datato your map. Classify the nuclear power plants as to whether or not they are operational. Give them a unique symbol.
  1. Symbolize the faults so they are visible against the other layers. Save Project.
  1. Do chapter 19 in GTKArcGIS and add a title, legend, scale bar, north arrow and your name, projection, and date to the map.
  1. Make your project transportable so it will run off of a CD. With ArcMap open go to the file menu > Map Properties, in the next window select “Data Source Options…” then select “Store relative path names.”
  1. Now you will make some images of your map. With the Layout View window open select Export Map. Navigate to the Export_Map folder where you will store the images, name the file using your last name. My favorite image types are jpeg (good to insert in word documents, they are small files), Tiff (better quality images), PDFs (good to print out as maps later on.) Save your layout as all three image types.
  1. Place a copy of the PDF of your map layout in the Drop Box on the server. [Make sure this PDF is named using your last name.]
  1. Burn copy of your project to a CD and make sure your project will open and run off of the CD.
  1. Just for your thoughts, knowing that large nuclear power plants need to be near a large body of water to generate steam, can you find a good location to build a new nuclear plant now that you know the locations of major population centers, past earthquakes, and major faults? Just a little aside, the prevailing winds blow out of the northwest.

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