Oops - Can't Work on GIS Today

Got a call this morning to go into work - I will probably have another day off later this week to catch up on my GIS project. Can't do it today till later.

Need To Get Back to Work

I have taken a few days off this project; I need to get the next phase completed. Tomorrow and Monday should give me a chance to make some progress.

Moving Right Along

I have clipped and combined the 9 quads that are needed to show Jim's study area. Next step, create the line and point layers.

The Work Continues

Jim Delahoussaye is giving a presentation at Vermilionville for their lecture series in mid-July. I'm working on expanding my class project to give him some maps he can use in the slide show about the Myette Point people.

I don't know why I couldn't figure out this feature of ArcMap last semester; I guess I was so panicked by the end of the semester that I wasn't paying attention.

Anyway, I had previously used clipping in last fall's class, and while revisiting it a few days ago, I found that it is possible to clip a base map to the extent of a layer. This will effectively clip the map collars of the historic quads I'm using, and provide a nearly mosaicked map. I think I have all the quads of the study area in the 1935 edition, so I'm getting excited about working on it.

How'd I do?

Just for the record, I got an A in the GIS 465 class. Nice thing to match my A in GIS 455 last fall. It's been 30 years since I graduated from LSU so going back to school was a stretch in some ways.

The teenager in the house would never have let me forget it if I had made anything else.

Final Project Presentation Done

Monday night was the final presentation for work in GIS 465. Jim Delahoussaye and Ray came, were very kind in their comments. I enjoyed the other students' presentations, and hope mine went OK. Hard to tell while it's going on.

Got some good feedback and ideas on my project from fellow students and instructors. Grayden suggesting using demographic data in my town table, using that to make the symbology change with population size. I can add that easily. Also, I think my landmark table needs revising; Jim intimated that some corrections were needed there.

Brent suggested using historical aerial photography imagery; might exist dating from 1970s.

I would like to put the sandbar development in a Flash presentation, and also mosaic all the 15 minute quads to encompass the whole study area, not just the Foster quad.

Now, on to find 2008 LIDAR data for Grand Isle.

Grand Lake Sandbar Deposition 1935-1973