Week 10-Data Editing. The Commissioner's Meeting

Our project this week truly reflects an actual project which I would have had to deal with at my local commissioner's meeting as the city/county attorney.   If we could have had drawings available to us like this on a regular basis we would have been able to address our citizens questions.  A clear visual such as this which answers:  Where is it?   Who is it next to?  How big?  What about traffic?  right off with a clear locator can clean up issues before they even get started.    

Here the premise:  Gulf County commissioners have purchased two adjacent tracts.  They would like to put in an extension office  also serving as an educational center.  You can here the comments already at a meeting.  This visual answers many questions before they become a problem. In the map a small reference is made to a new road. Here the commissioners can address at the same meeting with some of the same affected people, the addition of a subdivision road, using the same map.

Process Summary for Map Development

1) Created new folder for Week10DataEditing.  In ArcCatalog opened shapefiles to obtain metadata as needed.

2)  Followed Lab instructions for Part 1 & 2 obtained clean results with joined parcels highlighted as  desired.

3)   Part 3, followed instructions, road moved on subject county parcel with good results.

4)      Part 4, didn’t get it. Watch several tutorials on Youtube about editing & snapping.  I was having trouble on the order of the editing process. Now have roadpolygon.shp.  This turned out to be the wrong shape. Went back, deleted unnecessary files & created a line for street, then 25 foot buffer for full street.  This was better.

5)      On google earth located our proposed tax parcel tract, (Rish),  opened Florida quad directory in labins.org, zoomed into subject area to locate Wetappocreek qd 4943 as ours.  In Labins determined ftp path   146.201.97.137/DOQQ/2004/RGB/StatePlan_N/MrSid/q49. 

6)      On personal computer open filezilla, transferred all subquadrant files with . .aux, sid & swd to .flashdrive, then from flash to edesktop in new folder DOQQ qd 4943. Opened new data frame to place the quad in map. Zap! SW corner missing.  Back to look for missing files, had no missing. sw.sid copied in a variation of size. All were there.  Went back to recopy three sw quarter files. Moved through filevilla again. Success.

7)      Added required layers  to map in various combinations. Using StatePlane_N/MrSid projection 0903. Linear Unit feet.  So far with layers all are layering cleanly. When I’ve saved & reopened map all layers are reappearing in good position. 

8)      Using layer with combined features & road for legend.  Bright yellow to distinguish location on map.  Used “extent” of my data frame from the enlargement of the proposed parcel location. Set up inset on County map. Used extent for visual of original tract for comparison by citizens. Insured that property parcels were visible. If map is used in county commission meeting, people want to know where they are in relation to the location of the new parcel. 

9)      New road is on original county parcel map in blue.  In data frame individually it shows up well.  In smaller version on layout view its nearly lost.   In actual commission meeting this would not be a big thing but would be a small add on to discussion to pass resolutions etc at same time parcel would be discussed purely due to proximity to new parcel.  (Like an amendment).

10)      Good Exercise, realistic situation to portray.