Lab 3: Thematic Mapping and Data presentation This lab frequently refers to the folders UrbanGIS\MyData. Save your work on M:\\students\onyen\lab3 ; data are found at M:\\data\lab3 . Some pages of this lab are skipped on purpose. Do not be concerned that pdf page numbers do not include all pages. The assignment will be submitted as a .doc file in your folder. Paste in the printscreens, cropping as necessary. This is a long lab that is equal in weight to two laboratory assignments. Plan accordingly. Part I. 1. Print screen of map from extra challenge on p. 469. 2. What is the dimensionality of each of the data layers? 3. Print screen of resulting bx_demog layer resulting at end of task 4, p. 480. Justify the number of classes that you use and the breaks in the data. 4. What measurement levels of data are mapped? 5. What are the two types of thematic maps covered in these exercises? What questions are they best to describe? 1. Part II. 1. Create informative layout of the data that you have worked with over the past 2 weeks. Include legends, titles, north arrow, scale, text, and bar chart. Text should describe 1) name, section, and date , 2) data sources, and 3) describe the maps that are displayed. Include dot density and chorpleth maps. Bar chart should be properly labeled with title, legend, and use one option from your choices. The final layout will be judged according to visual structure of the layout as described in lab.2. On the standard toolbar, click the Connect to Folder button; find this by hovering over buttons on top toolbar. In the Connect to Folder dialog box navigate to and select the M:\006\data\lab3 and click OK. This will provide a direct connection from ArcCatalog or ArcMap. From this point on, we will work with Bronx data. These data have been projected to State Plane New York, NAD83, Long Island Zone, U.S. feet. TASK 2 3. Now switch back to ArcMap by pressing Launch ArcMap button. Click the option to start with a new empty map. 4. On the ArcMap standard toolbar, click the Add Data button. In the data dialog box, click the Look in the dropdown arrow and choose Catalog from the top of the list. (This will set you to the highest level in your folder hierarchy. Navigate to the lab 3 data folder and double click the Bronx geodatabase, Bronx.mdb. Add the following feature classes from the Bronx database: SHR36005 (shorelines), WBD36005 (waterbodies), LAN36005 (landmarks) and Bx_demog (census tracts and demographic data). Use the control key to select multiple features. 5. Click Bx_demog to highlight in the TOC (on the left). Click the layer name again to activate the text cursor and type: Census and click enter. In the same manner, rename the other three layers to the shorelines, waterbodies and landmarks. Be sure to use the right name. This only changes the name of the layers within your map. Save map in your student folder lab 3. (Do this more often than I remind
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