02 April 2010

Pretty straightforward.
Just lots of button clicking.
No Problems.  The most time comsuming due to the pages of directions which could have been condensed to 1/8 of what there were.could have been spiffier had the "Elev" layer which comes loaded with the map not waited until the very last step 8 pages later to inform me that is was "corrupt".  When connecting the things in the final step the maching insisted on 'connecting a variable with a process' which it said it could not do because though all the Aspect, Hillshade and Slope parts were there waiting, trying to move the Elev layer from the ArcMap TOC as instructed resulted in a msg that the data set wasn't supported...   tried everything i could to no avail.  SInce there was nothing i had dont 'to' the layer, i had to presume there was something wrong with it.  The attribute table showed "0".  This is the result of the first 7 steps, the eighth i could not do without the Elev layer which is in step 1.  Now THIS was a fun one...  Reclass.  Masking was fun and i could have played around with that a bit more...  I ran into trouble at the tail end of step six where it says it is "optional".  It's hard to go on without it.  (I tried).  But when i gave it the SlpDeg it asked for,  It coughed them back up at me...  LUCKILY, the next thing we do is switch that to SlpPer.  For whatever reason, that one 'took' so i could continue.  Probably one of the more useful and enjoyable exercises.

Someone called this the WILD map and implied "fun" hence a fun design.  This shows a 3D layer atop a deceptively flat raster layer of the same terrain...  The exercise for this (named in the map title) was to compare a hike across seemingly flat terrain and to compare that to what you would really encounter while out doing it.  Didn't know if i 'could' make a map in ArcScene from this so i moved it into ArcMap (it didn't want to go) and put in the symbols that i could there.  No idea how to honestly scale it so I left that off... the legend stayed in ArcScene... Don't Ask.  It just did. 

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