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Purpose of this exercise is to familiarize with the basic steps in using ArcMap. Basic
steps include loading of map, knowing basic utilization of ArcMap, familiarizing with
the GUI of ArcMap, selecting layout of map for printing, knowledge of editing on a
Map, inserting map elements, saving a map. A figure of the map, after completion of
the Exercise 1 is provided below.
A pre-existing map of a locality consisting of location of school, location of airport,
major roads, proposed airport expansion zone, locality or county boundary along
with the contour of noise generated is loaded on ArcMap. The following steps were
incorporated in this exercise.
Changing the layout of map is learned in this tutorial. Landscape layout for
the map is used to work on the map.
Arrow to locate the orientation of the area with respect to direction is loaded
on the map showing north direction.
Purpose of this exercise is to add a new data frame and incorporating the existing
school data frame in this new data frame. Amount of land in form of different
parcels of different land use which are within the contour of noise from the airport
are examined and the results are displayed in form of table and bar chart.
Main steps that have been applied
A new data frame i.e a collection of layers drawn in a particular order for a
specific map extent and map projection is created. For the particular
example, the data frame inserted is airport geodatabase.
Layers from the School data frame used in Exercise 1 are copied in the
Airport geodatabase.
Different land use in the map extent i.e Agricultural, commercial, industrial,
residential, unknown land use are assigned using different colors.
Parcels of different land use type within the noise contour were identified.
Results i.e amount of land within noise contour is summarized in table. Steps
involved in creating the table is learned.
Another way of summarizing the results are bar chart. A bar chart for number
of parcels corresponding to different land use type which are within the noise
contour is prepared.
Corresponding figures for the steps applied in Exercise 2 are displayed below.
In the above figure, the map extent of the area or airport geodatabase is shown.
This data frame is inserted in the ArcMap. This data frame is an existing
geodatabase provided in the ArcMap.
First column corresponds to the Agricultural area in light blue color with the
total area within the noise contour of 141
Second column corresponds to the Commercial area in light dark pink color
with the total area within the noise contour of 15
Third column corresponds to the Industrial area in white color with the total
area within the noise contour of 8
Fifth column corresponds to the Unknown area i.e area which do not belong to
any of the above in magenta color with the total area within the noise
contour of 141
From the above results, it can be concluded that the most affected area due to the
noise is residential follows bu agricultural area.
Titles, Legends and scale bar are added in all maps in different data
frames.
Finalizing the data frames by addition of drop shadow and netline for
better visual presentation is incorporated in this chapter.
Fig 5.4 Land use within noise contour incorporating legends and scale bar
Same finishing as provided for the Land Use within noise contour is incorporated
for rest of the data frames i.e. for population density and proposed airport
extension. In Figure 5.5 and 5.6, titles, legends and scale bar can be seen in the
data frames mentioned above.
In fig 5.6, i.e in the map Proposed Airport Expansion, it can be noted that the
direction arrow for location for direction orientation has been added. No direction
arrow or north arrow is added on any other map. This due to factor that all the maps
are in same orientation and direction orientation do not change for maps. All the
maps are orientated in the same direction.
In fig 5.6, an extend rectangle is also incorporated showing the area which is
zoomed in the corresponding figure next to it. This is done to easy in location of
area that is shown in the figure corresponding. IT helps in pointing out the zone
where one is working on in the whole map.
For the final layout for the print, all the data frames and table are put in one layout
plan with a title of Proposed Airport Expansion . All the data are placed with drop
shadow. Drop shadow gives the feeling that the data frame is coming out of the
layout. It can be visualized by the light gray or black color around the box of data
frame.
Netline is incorporated in the final layout. Border with equal distance are shown
along netline. The background color of layout is changed to light blue color for
better visualization of final print. The final print is shown the Figure 5.7.