PART III: Process Summary Description
1)
Copied data from R drive to S drive and unzipped
to new folder
2)
Opened ArcMap and started ArcCatalog
3)
Viewed properties of cntbnd shapefile
4)
Added cntbnd
layer to ArcMap
5)
Viewed Layers
properties
6)
Opened ArcToolbox
7)
Expanded down to Project tool in Feature
sub-toolset
8)
Using Project
tool, reprojected cntbnd to NAD 1983 UTM Zone 16N
9)
Added new projected layer to ArcMap
10)
Added two new data frames to ArcMap and renamed layers accordingly
11)
Moved cntbnd_UTM16 to “UTM” data frame
12)
Using Project tool, reprojected cntbnd to NAD 1983 HARN StatePlane Floida North FIPS 0903(US Feet)
13)
Relocated the new projection to State Plane N data frame
14)
Saved map as Projections_I_BED.mxd to S drive
15)
Added “Area” field to each attribute table
calculated areas for each county in with calculate
geometry option
16)
Switched to Map View to finalize map
17)
Added title, North Arrow, Data source, Prepared
by, Neatline, Scale
18)
All maps were set at the same scale
19)
In the attribute table I selected the four
counties used for comparison
20)
In the Layer
Properties, I selected the Selection
tab and selected ‘with this color’, used red as a fill
21)
Next in the Layer
Properties, under the Labels
tab, I queried the four counties to just have their labels show up on the map
22)
Back in the Attribute
Table, I Turned Off all the
columns except NAME and Area
23)
I renamed NAME
to County and I added (sq mi) to the Area
24)
Under Table
Option, I selected Add Table to
Layout
25)
To be able to read county names, I right clicked
on the layer and selected Convert Labels
to Annotation
26)
Then I edited the font and moved each label to
where it was visible
27)
This was repeated for all Layers
28)
Saved map as to S drive
29)
Exported map as Projections_I_BED.jpg to S drive
30)
Backed up all data to the H drive
31)
Posted all work as required
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