FOR557 – ‘05 Exercise 1 Maps and Terminology Overview In any new venture one of the first things you have to do is learn the terminology. In FOR557 this means learning the terminology of maps and the terminology of the softwares we will be using – ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.1. Those of you who have used ArcView 3.x will find the basic concepts about the same but the user interface for 9.1 is very different from 3.3. This exercise deals only with the terminology and operational concepts of ArcView 9.1 and basic GIS. Almost all the questions asked are from Module 1 of the on-line ESRI course “learning ArcGIS 9.” The rest are from Chapters 1 and 2 of “Practical Vector GIS”. You are expected to know the names of the various parts of the software’s user interface and the location and names of various tools in the software. This exercise is designed to help you do this. It will be followed by a quiz (#2) to determine how much you have learned from reading Chapters 1and 2 in the reader Practical Vector GIS1 and carrying out the first module of the ESRI on-line course. You will find some definitions in the Dictionary part of the ArcGIS help. Assignment The following pages contain tables with the various terms you need to know and diagrams of the parts and tool bars of the software. I suggest that you fill the forms out in the computer and then print two copies – one for yourself and one to turn in. Notes There are some errors in the Practical Vector GIS reader. Those I know about are listed below. Text to be deleted is in bold with a strikethrough and the new text is in italics. • Chapter 1: o Page 1, Section What is GIS, near bottom of page 3 lines up. “To make things even more confusing one person’s data information is another’s data!” o Page 6, Section Making change, first bullet, it is Glacier National Park! o Page 8, Section Planning, bullet #5 on this page. 5 lines down. “ (database: Tax.dbf) containing that information that has have to be …..” • Chapter 2: o Page 2, first paragraph, just below the numeric calculation, “This fraction is the numeric ratio scale” 1 Reader #20053-1036 available at the Copy Center in Marshal Square Mall. If you can find it you can use last year’s reader since they are identical. E:\lpherrin\557\Exercises\2005_Exercises\Ex1_05.doc 8/30/2005 Page 1 of 6 FOR557 – 04 Exercise 1 Maps and Terminology – Hand in these pages only! Name on upper right corner of back of last page 1) On the map to the left what is the ratio scale (you will have to get a ruler to figure this out!) B A 2) Why is there no ratio scale shown on the map? ___________________________________ ÅC 3) What is the map component TYPE marked “A” D ___________________________________ 4) What is the map component marked “B”? _________________________________________ 5) What is the map component marked “C” __________________________________________ 6) What is the map component marked “D” __________________________________________ Map Definitions Term Neatline Scale Legend Feature (object) Feature types (3 or 4) Definition FOR557 – 04 Exercise 1 Maps and Terminology – Hand in these pages only! Name on upper right corner of back of last page Geographic data Location data Longitude Latitude Coordinate System (example) Attribute data Albers equal area conic (Help, maybe?) Rhumb (ditto ) ArcView 9 terminology Term .mxd file Table of Contents (TOC) Data Frame Shape Feature Bookmark Map Toolbox Attribute data Feature ID Definition FOR557 – 04 Exercise 1 Maps and Terminology – Hand in these pages only! Name on upper right corner of back of last page ArcView 9 terminology continued Layout view Data view Metadata ArcView 9 User Interface The image to the left is of the ArcView 9 user interface. Some elements of the interface have been identified by letter. Answer the following questions using those letters. ÅF A C ÅB 1) letter that identifies the Data or map window ____ 2) Letter that identifies scale value ____ 3) Location of the coordinate values of some feature _____ ÅD 4) Letter that identifies a layer _____ ÅE 5) Letter that identifies the Table of Contents (TOC). _______________ 6) What is the name of the interface element (NOT the icon) at D? ___________________________________________________________________ FOR557 – 04 Exercise 1 Maps and Terminology – Hand in these pages only! Name on upper right corner of back of last page The TOOLS toolbar is shown below. For each of the tools indicate its function (Probably not on yours – but guess!) What is this tool used for? And this one? and how about this? and this (hint it is the opposite of soon as you click it)? and it not a tool – it’s a button that does something as FOR557 – 04 Exercise 1 Maps and Terminology – Hand in these pages only! Name on upper right corner of back of last page Now for some information about you. This information will help me generate a course that fits the class. 1. What level of study are you in? BS MS MPS Ph.D. continuing Ed 2. What is your area of study? (Like botany, silviculture, LA, hydrology, etc.) 3. Why are you taking the course – what do you want to get out of it? 4. What are your computer skills? - none, novice, pretty good, good, really good, expert 5. What GIS experience do you have (Courses or work)? 6. Comments?