PROJECT METHODOLOGIES

For this milestone, you will submit a draft of Section III of the final project (Methodologies). You will outline the steps involved with converting your spatial data to the type of data needed to solve your chosen spatial problem.

You will also describe your data sets and provide an explanation of the tools you used. Furthermore, you will apply appropriate symbols to the layers you created using geoprocessing tools, and you will create technically correct maps using cartographic design best practices and principles.
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Methodologies

Outline: Outline the steps involved with converting your spatial data to the type of data needed to solve the spatial problem you selected. In other words, what data-scrubbing methods did you use? For example, you might need to convert U.S. Census data into a spreadsheet that can then be imported into ArcGIS.

Data Set(s): Describe your data set or sets. Did you have more than one? If so, describe the process you used to join or combine your data sets. If not, why was one data set sufficient?

Geoprocessing Tools: Use geoprocessing tools to manipulate your data to address your spatial problem and the question you developed. Examples of tools you could use are Clip and Buffer. Which tools did you use? Why? Support your explanation with screenshots.

Symbols: Apply appropriate symbols to the layers you created using geoprocessing tools. What did you consider in choosing your symbols?

Include screenshots that show your application of symbols.

Map(s): Create a technically correct map or maps using cartographic design best practices and principles. Ensure that your map or maps address the problem you selected.

Best Practices: Which cartographic design best practices and principles did you apply to the creation of your map(s)? Why?