Lab
1: Confluence Project
Introduction
The future of Eau Claire is very important to most people
that live there, as an intern at Clear Vision Eau Claire I would like to strive
to make this city one of the greatest. In order to do that my company announced
a plan in 2012 for a public private partnership between local developers. This
development is referred to as the “Confluence Project” this project is supposed
to be completed by the beginning of 2014 and will contain three performance
spaces, galleries, offices, classrooms, studios and much more. What I have to
do for this project so than it will succeed is to create an initial report or
relevant information of the layout as well as including base maps for each data
set. I will create this relevant information and base maps using ArcMap and
ArcCatalog.
Methodology
In order to create the relevant information and base maps
we first had to create the initial data for the confluence project. First we
opened ArcCatalog so than we could create the data, after this program was
opened we had to create a geodatabase and a feature dataset for that database.
After the feature dataset was created we could move on to mapping the
confluence project while being displayed at its real life location. ArcMap is
the next program that is needed to be used so than we can create the maps. Once
this program is opened we need to upload a world imagery base map so than we
can see where the actual confluence project is going to take place. The next
objective was to find the parcel information for each of the parcels that were
being used for the confluence project. In order to find out this information we
have to use the “identify tool” in ArcMap, this tool helps us get vast amounts
of information about each location. But the only information that we wanted was
the parcel number so than we can get the full parcel description of each
location. Another tool that was very useful in this project was the “editor
tool” and the “snapping tool” both were very helpful in defining where the proposed
site for the confluence project actually was in relation to real world
features.
The next step after collecting all of the relevant
information for the confluence project is to start creating all of the maps
that are needed to make this project successful. The task at hand is to create
six different maps all for the same location but each map representing a different
variable. The first map represents “Civil Divisions” in order to create this
map we had to change the symbology of the map and add the civil divisions
feature class so than the information on the map is relevant. We also had to
create maps that represented other variables, for instance we had to create
maps for “Census Boundaries”, “Zoning”, “PLSS”, “Voting Districts” and “EC City
Parcel Data.” Each of these maps required adding different types of data and
different feature classes. For example, the “Zoning Map” needed the
zoning_areas feature class to be added to it since that has information on it
relevant to that map, while the “Census Boundaries Map” needed the BlockGroups
and Tract Group feature class to be added since that has information relevant
to this map. Each map needed different feature classes to be added to each one
some required the same since they are showing somewhat similar information. After
we made all of the maps and included all of the information that was needed all
we have to do now is change the view to layout and start to construct the map
correctly making each data frame the same size, while including a legend, scale
and title for each map.
Results
After looking carefully at all of the
information and analyzing each one of the maps carefully you can see that the
proposed site is placed at a perfect position. Especially if they are trying to
draw in a younger crowd, if you were to look at the figure below at the Census
Boundaries map you would see that the area that the Confluence project is in is
among the youngest in Eau Claire. Also one of the goals of this Confluence
project is to try to have local businesses work together to help promote Eau
Claire. If you were to look at the Zoning map below you would see that the
proposed site is in the Central Business District for zoning classes making it
a great spot for local businesses to meet up and share ideas with each other.
Each map tells vast amounts of information about the confluence project but the
one thing that all maps are telling us is that it is in a very good position
for accomplishing its goals.
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| Figure 1: Confluence Project Maps |
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