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Top Left to Right: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3. Bottom Left to Right: Fig. 4, Fig. 5, Fig. 6 |
Goal: The purpose of this assignment was to apply skills learned in Geography 335 GIS I to a real life situation. These skills include: digitizing buildings and geological features, creating a manipulating layers, altering features, manipulating symbols, and basic cartographic practices such as creating a neat legend and scale. Another purpose of this assignment was to become familiar with various data sets, including: the Public Land Survey System and parcels of land and their legal descriptions.
Background: The goal of this project was to assess the projected site of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Confluence project. This was achieved by assessing the various governmental data of Eau Claire County and the city of Eau Claire. The Confluence Project is a future development through a combined private-public effort to take place at the meeting of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers. The various proposed projects include a new arts center and additional student housing for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Method: For all six maps I added world imagery as a base layer to aid in giving the reader a better picture of the area surrounding the Confluence Project. I then digitized the future site of the Confluence Project by using the parcel data and the projected site listed on the Confluence Project FAQ online. I then added various features for each seperate map.
- Figure 1: I added the civil division data from the Eau Claire county database in order to give a good scope of the region surrounding Eau Claire and the Confluence Project.
- Figure 2: In order to give a better understanding of the region I added the block groups and tracts from the county and city database. I then symbolized the block groups based on the population per square mile.
- Figure 3: In this map I included the Public Land Survey System quarter quarter areas, which I added from the Eau Claire County database.
- Figure 4: I inserted the water and centerline data from the city database and also included the parcel data for the city of Eau Claire.
- Figure 5: This is a map of the different zoning areas in the city of Eau Claire. I obtained this data from the Eau Claire city database and then grouped the zones based on the more broad zoning terms of C (commercial), CBD (central business district), I (industrial), P (public properties district, R (residential), and T (transportation).
- Figure 6: I added the Eau Claire voting wards from the city database and labeled them based on the voting ward number assigned to them.
Sources:
Eau Claire Regional Arts Center. (n.d.). Confluence. Retrieved from http://www.eauclairearts.com/confluence/
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. (n.d.). News @ uw-eau claire. Retrieved from http://www.uwec.edu/News/more/confluenceprojectFAQs.htm City of Eau Claire
Eau Claire County
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